Fort Moore is reverting to Fort Benning - Page 2

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aggie general A.D. Bruce named Camp Hood / Fort Hood

if that name was good enough for General Bruce...it's good enough for all of us on this thread

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In reply to jacketman03 • 10:49p, 3/3/25

jacketman03 said:
Funny that the Navy and Marine Corps didn't feel the need to create unity by naming ships and bases after Confederates, but the Army did.

Edit: yes, this is a Marine sticking a thumb in the eye of the Army

You do realize Marines fought under the command of General Robert E Lee at Harper's Ferry?

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In reply to jacketman03 • 11:32p, 3/3/25

jacketman03 said:
Aust Ag said:
It's a shame all this "renaming" got started in the first place.
The original shame was the Army deciding to name bases after men who broke their oaths and took up arms against the United States in the first place.

The north invaded the south, not the other way around.

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In reply to Charlie 31 • 2:31p, 6/12/25

Charlie 31 said:
My prediction is that Captain Robert B. Hood is about to become really famous.

Hood's extraordinary heroism in action while serving with the U.S. Army's Battery E/12th Field Artillery/2d Division/Army Expeditionary Forces near Thiaucourt, France, 12 September 1918, resulted in his being awarded the Distinguished Service Cross.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49206759/robert_benjamin-hood

https://valor.militarytimes.com/recipient/recipient-12554/

Called it. :-)

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3:01p, 6/12/25

It's the wrong approach to try to find a new hero to match all of the old post names.

Simply state that the names of the forts carry their own history that supersedes any of the perceived negatives of the historical figures they were named after.