Benning, Fort Moore and Pete Hegseth

This change underscores the installation’s storied history of service to the United States of America,” the Department of ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reinstated the name “Fort Benning” on Monday for one of the nation’s largest military bases — ...
Fort Moore received its name in 2023 amid a bipartisan effort to remove Confederacy-linked names from military installations.
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 ...