I mean, sure, whatever. Are they going to try and find similar soldiers stories to change back the other posts, or is it just Bragg?
This is what the Army gets for going with Liberty instead of Fort Beckwith I guess.
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I mean, sure, whatever. Are they going to try and find similar soldiers stories to change back the other posts, or is it just Bragg?
This is what the Army gets for going with Liberty instead of Fort Beckwith I guess.
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Or Shughart-Gordon, or Miller, or 25 other MOH winners with Airborne SOF lineage. This was a major fumble by the Army and the naming convention. That Benavidez didn’t get a base is a crime. Liberty was a failure in every way. I’m on record saying that Bragg was a shitty loser general, but they fucked this up.
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I agree that if you're going to rename a base, Ft Bragg has generated so many extraordinary soldiers that it could be named after instead of that stupid ass name.
My issue is that so many soldiers identify with a base and the blood, sweat, and tears, that they have poured out that to rename it invalidates what they did.
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If the name of the base validates someone as a person they have a weak ass resume.
Shit if anything it is just another way of saying “back when it was hard(Bragg)”
This was a brilliant move by Trump. He made a campaign promise to rename Bragg, and did it in a way that people can’t cry “muh racisms!”
Another campaign promise kept.
Another campaign promise kept.
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Gonna preface this with me being a 1st Gen American. In essence, I'm an adopted outsider. Which means I don't buy into the whole race/guilt mentality. Unlike some of the peeps here, I didn't buy into the BLM/racism grift either. Cause ultimately, that was the impetus the previous admin used to reshape our military culture and tradition.
Let me explain. What the previous admin did was a calculated move. They essentially forced the DoD to bend the knee to a rabble of Neo-Marxist scum. Think of it as a humiliation ritual, with the botching of Afghanistan as their piece de resistance. The renaming of bases, the celebration of depravity, and the attack on core values, was no coincidence. It was meant to demoralize the force and sever the connection of past generations.
Fact of the matter is. Our shared heritage was destroyed by race baiting idiots. Who funnily enough were funded via embezzled tax dollars, ie the Tide Foundation and USAID. To further whit, Milley and Lloyd are now persona non grata because they were complicit in this.
So when I hear that we should have renamed US bases something different, complaints about Braxton Bragg, etc. What I really hear is discontent. Discontent that the previous admin failed at their tasking. But hey... I'm just a crazy rabbit
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See, I can get behind this. Satisfies all the old heads who have nostalgia for Ft. Bragg, but avoids naming it after a loser general
