Roland Bragg, she didn't believe it. "Jennifer called me up the other night from Florida. That's his granddaughter. She said 'Mama, they want to honor Grandpa'. That's when I said,' Oh ...

In an Oct. 2024 campaign event in Fayetteville, N.C., Mr. Trump had pledged to change the name of Fort Bragg back from Fort Liberty. On Mr. Hegseth’s first day at the Pentagon, he referred to ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday directed the U.S. Army to change the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, but with a twist. Hegseth signed a memo aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 before ...

The original Fort Bragg was named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg. The renaming process involved a national commission and cost over $6 million. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to rename Fort Bragg appears to be his latest effort to roll back Biden-administration diversity policies for the military. On Monday, a memo from Hegseth ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the renaming of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, honoring Pfc. Roland L. Bragg, a World War II veteran. The name change will likely require additional ...

The Army paratrooper after whom Fort Liberty will regain the name Bragg was born June 11, 1923, in Sabbattus, Maine, to Calvin and Ella Stevens Bragg. Little is immediately known about Silver Star ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday renamed the Army base Fort Liberty back to its original name of Fort Bragg, according to a Department of Defense statement, undoing a 2023 name change ...