Quote:Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is on record saying the renaming of military bases that once glorified Confederate heroes was “crap” and “garbage” — a craven surrender to “woke” ideology.[emphasis mine]
Hegseth last week restored the name Fort Bragg to the massive Army base in North Carolina that in 2023 was rechristened Fort Liberty.
“We’re not done,” Hegseth said, indicating that other military installations, possibly including Texas’ Fort Cavazos, would revert to names with Confederate associations.
The reality, however, is that it won’t be easy for Hegseth to do that.
It may even be impossible.
In his way stands an act of Congress that authorized the Pentagon to take Confederate leaders' names off those military bases in the first place. It passed during President Donald Trump’s first term in office.
The 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, the bill that sets defense policy and spending priorities, created a Naming Commission to strip Confederate names from all “assets of the Department of Defense.” Trump vetoed the bill, calling it an effort to “rewrite history,” but a bipartisan majority in Congress easily overrode the veto.
"The NDAA required renaming so not to honor anyone who had served in the Confederate States of America voluntarily," said Drew Brenner-Beck, a retired Army lieutenant colonel and former professor at the South Texas College of Law in Houston.
In returning Fort Bragg to its original name, Hegseth fulfilled a promise Trump made during a campaign appearance in Fayetteville, N.C., in October.
To pull it off, Hegseth devised a legal workaround.
He renamed Fort Liberty not for Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, its original namesake, but for an obscure World War II private, Roland Bragg.
"Bragg is back!" the defense secretary declared.
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