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You earn a CIB for surviving your first year at Hood.
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That’s for sure.
GEN. John Bell Hood actually sucked worse that Braxton Bragg. Fort Hood has managed to embody the man’s soul-crushing culture of ineptitude, failure, and disregard for human life for decades. I think whoever first named the installation did it out of spite.
Heard they were looking at MSG Benavides for the source for a post name. Agree on the missed opportunity.
Concur. Was my first duty station. Best part of Fort Hood was going to Iraq right away.
Devildoc
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The Navy doesn't have many really crappy bases. The Marines, one, 29 palms. But it seems like the army has a few, and that's probably because they have so many compared to the other branches. Fort Hood is one of those from what I understand.
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There was the mass shooting in 2009 by Major Hasan. That's what brought the base to my attention.
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Fuck, that‘s right; I actually remember that now.
Fucking cancel culture cunts.
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Exactly, it’s stupid and pointless.
God damn leftists and their hurt feelings. Decades upon decades, it was fine, now, some liberal cunts want to change everything. Fucking clown gay.
Home of the 82nd and SF. why not an associated name of a hero from one of these. Why not Ft. Simons after Col “Bull”Simons. Just spitballing here but, damn Ft. Liberty is pretty limp.
I did a fair amount of research when I got to Hood for my first duty station. I’m certainly no leftist, but I was truly dumbfounded as to why the United States would name a military base — the largest stateside base in square miles at the time — after a Confederate general who was an abject failure.
GEN Hood would have been considered a clusterfucking clown who needed his face fucked in by a rabid horse if the South had actually won. They lost, which made the naming convention that much more confusing. Why reward historical failure with the naming of a military installation in your so-called honor? And rest assured, there was nothing honorable about John Bell Hood. Not in defeat, and he (thankfully) had no meaningful victories to claim to his name.
That’s my opinion, though. YMMV
Totally get what you're saying sister but my point was, it never was an issue till the past few years. All of a sudden, hurt feelings, words hurt, history hurts, let's change or get rid of shit, all together, just to pacify hurt feelings.
That's my point.
That's my point.
Devildoc
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I'd imagine, and I am just shooting spit balls here, that given the number of bases in the south that were stood up because of the high number of southerners in Congress during that particular time (who controlled the purse strings), those congressmen were one generation away from the civil war, and these people had been ingrained into myth and folklore.
What I don't understand is of all the civil war generals, why pick the losers and the idiots? They had some really good military officers.
What I don't understand is of all the civil war generals, why pick the losers and the idiots? They had some really good military officers.
Camp Lejeune is named after the son of a Confederate officer. 
How could we have missed this grievous injustice??!!
How could we have missed this grievous injustice??!!
Yes, this.
This right here. The Lost Cause mythology was really picking up steam too.
Not to sound all SJW and what not, but our country has a history of courting Southern money and votes regardless of the social implications. This all started back in…1775 or so when the northern of the 13 realized it needed the economy and manpower of the lower 13; slavery was pushed aside.
