Posted on 03/18/2022 7:49:01 AM PDT by devane617
Federal panel narrows list of recommended names to 87; report due to Congress by Oct. 1
Dwight D. Eisenhower, George C. Marshall, Colin Powell and Harriet Tubman are among 87 candidates who have made the cut for the renaming of nine military installations that honor Confederate figures, including Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia.
The federal Naming Commission announced this week it had narrowed its list of recommendations from the more than 34,000 it had received from the public. It stopped soliciting ideas online Dec. 1 and is preparing to submit its final recommendations to Congress by Oct. 1.
Congress created the commission amid renewed protests for racial justice after the violent deaths of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Ahmaud Arbery in southeast Georgia. The Pentagon is expected to act on the commission’s recommendations by 2024.
America’s military bases, the Naming Commission said on its website, should “appropriately reflect the courage, values and sacrifices of our diverse military men and women, with consideration given to the local or regional significance of names and their potential to inspire and motivate our service members.”
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How about Fort Nat Turner and Fort John Brown?
I bet there’s a Harvey Milk fort someday.................
At this point, just use numbers.
Fort 1
Fort 2
Fort 3
Change Fort Benning to Fort Abrams.
Lets just name military installation alphanumerically.
That will be appropriately woke, inoffensive to the snowflakes and boring!
It would be something if one of the bases is named after General Eisenhower who was a great admirer of General Robert E. Lee.
Perhaps the base commander will have a portrait of General Lee in his office, like General Eisenhower did in the White House.
But it has to be a Naval base...
(Just kidding for all you Navy folks, but lets face it, everybody knows the stereotype, the Village People even made a song about it)
There’s already a ship.
Harriet Tubman was never in the military.
Just progs doing what progs do - trying to contort reality to fit their preconceived, comic book ideas...
Yes - My Army Son really want to be stationed at Fort Harriet Tubman
I vote for Fort Courage from everyone’s favorite show F Troop
Lefties would love
Fort Robert Hanssen.
Fort Chelsea Manning
Fort John Walker
Fort Karl Marx
Fort Mao Zedong
Fort John Walker Lindh
etc. etc.
Fort Rachel Levine. Yeah I know he’s Navy, but what the hell.
Sacrilege.
But, if they must continue to downgrade everything, I vote for Ft. Colin and Ft. Harriet. Soldiers could probably develop some cute nicknames for each.
Fort Saint George Floyd.
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