Posted on 05/25/2022 7:45:28 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
KILLEEN, Texas -- Fort Hood likely will be renamed Fort Cavazos after a blue-ribbon commission recommended that the Confederate-named Army base receive a new name along with eight other military bases nationwide.The Naming Commission, which was created by Congress and is responsible for recommending new names or removal of names and symbols that commemorate Confederate figures within the Department of Defense, called for Fort Hood to be named after Gen. Richard Cavazos, a native Texan and the Army's first Hispanic four-star general.The Army's largest active-duty armored post, with about 40,000 soldiers, was named after Gen. John Bell Hood, who led the Confederate Army's Texas Brigade during the Civil War.
No U.S. military bases are named for a Hispanic service member. U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro, D-San Antonio, pushed for the name change along with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
The commission also recommended changing the name of Fort Bragg in North Carolina to Fort Liberty, and Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia to Fort Walker - for Dr. Mary Edwards Walker who was a suffragist, prisoner of war and surgeon - among others.The commission will make its recommendations to Congress, then it will be then sent to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for final approval.
"I'm grateful to The Naming Commission for their recommendation to rename Fort Hood for Richard Cavazos," Castro said on Twitter Tuesday.
Agreed on that point.
I went to Airborne School at Fort Benning. I will always refer to it as Fort Benning.
When he was in command of the 9th Infantry Division one of his brigade commanders was Colonel Norman Schwarzkopf. The two became friends and Cavezos made sure that Schwarzkopf left For Lewis with his first star.
Me too!
Although I never went there, my older brother went there in 1968 and from there non-stop to Vietnam.
If the army changes the names, then my wish is that in January 2025, President Trump's first EO is to re-name all forts back to their proper names.
Fort Michael Brown, Fort Trayvon Martin.We shouldn't be racist, the now woke military might do it...
The base shield logo will be crossed needles instead of swords.
The new names must be unisex.../s
Bailey
Cameron
Dylan
Leslie.......
Fort Cab Calloway
At Atlanta, General Sherman was delighted when he learned that the Confederates had replaced Joe Johnston with John Bell Hood.
Fort Minnie the Moocher
Fort Michael Browne... Shield would be Twinkies crossed...🤓
I was on a mountaintop site in Turkey from 1983-84. While I was there, the Air Force, in their infinite wisdom, decided that remote mountaintop sites needed to have the blessing of having females on the sites. On our site, they decided that we would benefit from a female site commander.
Well, this female commander shows up. She was appalled at some of the site’s long-standing traditions to keep morale up. (Chug-ins for newcomers, chug-outs for departing people, various other initiations, regular parties that were a bit rowdy lol, and so on). She called a halt to everything.
Needless to say morale dropped. And performance also dropped (this was a radio site that did long-haul communications in the era prior to wideband satellite communications and fiber optics. There was a long-standing tradition that we had zero reportable outages, even though the site was 100% generator powered and the equipment was such that battery backup was not possible.
See, because we had high morale and pride, when a generator dropped off, literally everybody on site would rush to their stations and get things prepared for bringing another generator online....certain actions had to be fine quickly so that the radios wouldn’t automatically go into a warm up cycle when power was restored.
Under this female commander, morale dropped and off duty people didn’t bother to take the above-and-beyond actions needed. Performance dropped from 0 reportable outages during the year to an average of 1 or 2 outages a month.
The higher-ups were not happy and guess who got replaced about halfway through her tour...
I’m not doubting his service to his country but many other faceless soldiers did the same heroics but we all know what qualifies him in the eyes of the leftists and that’s as racist as anything they presumed to be replacing.
Hood is a poster boy for the Peter Principle. Excellent Division commander, totally inept as an army commander. Lee’s assessment of Hood’s skills “too much wolf, not enough fox.
What’s wrong with Mississippi State? Nothing. SEC is a tough conference....
Bragg was the South's version of the North's McClellan.
One southern div commander is quoted as saying "Well boys, this one will be short and desperate".
You always South bash
You should have stayed up north
You bashing our ancestors you prick
So screw you
I’m sick of you people here
The problem is that posters
Typical self righteous yankee who moved south
He condemns my ancestors he can go to hell
How would you like it
I’m ole miss alma mater
State is fine
No. I lived in Mississippi most of my life, and now live in Texas. And, yes, Braxton Bragg was an incompetent General.
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