Benning, Fort Moore and Pete Hegseth

Fort Moore received its name in 2023 amid a bipartisan effort to remove Confederacy-linked names from military installations.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reinstated the name “Fort Benning” on Monday for one of the nation’s largest military bases — ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has, for the second time, reversed the renaming of a U.S. military base, saying that Fort ...
This change underscores the installation’s storied history of service to the United States of America,” the Department of Defense said in a news release.
The Secretary of Defense has renamed Fort Moore back to Fort Benning after less than two years under the current name.
In 2022, a federal commission estimated that changing the names of nine military installations would cost taxpayers $21 ...