Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth restored the names of Fort Benning and Fort Bragg, which were originally named for Confederate ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been criticized for attempting to rename military bases to honor Confederate officers, with Rep. Don Bacon calling his approach “stupid as hell”.

GOP Rep. Don Bacon, who helped lead the effort to change military base names, voted for a draft law defunding efforts to reverse the changes.

Did you know that the battle over Confederate names on American military bases is still ongoing and just took a crazy new turn in Congress? The House Armed Services Committee has now approved an ...

Democratic senators on Wednesday repeatedly slammed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over his decision to restore the names of nine military bases originally named after Confederate leaders, with ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has stripped the name of a U.S. Navy veteran and gay rights activist from a ship and moved to return the last names of Confederate generals to U.S. Army bases.

Despite the presidential announcement last week, several of the changed base names were mentioned during the Army’s 250th anniversary parade in Washington, D.C. last weekend, because renaming ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted Wednesday that military veterans and active-duty troops urged the Trump administration to rename American military bases after Confederate traitors who took ...

The Trump administration restored the names of nine bases named after confederate general. Advocates say it dishonors a bi-partisan attempt to turn the page on the military's segregationist past.

The main gate welcome sign for Fort Hood in Texas is shown in July 2013. The base was renamed to Fort Cavazos in 2023. (Tony Gutierrez/AP) Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said military officials ...