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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Feb. 10 (UPI) --Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday signed an order to rename Fort Liberty in North Carolina back to its original Fort Bragg. But this time Bragg will honor a World War II ...

Fort Liberty will officially be switched back to Fort Bragg. On Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum declaring the Army would rename the base from Fort Liberty back to ...

Fort Liberty is Fort Bragg again, as ordered by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in a memo Monday. But instead of being named for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general and slaveowner, ...

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is bringing the name Bragg back to one of the Army’s largest bases, Fort Liberty, which replaced the namesake of a Confederate general in 2023. But in a ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Is it an honor or a cynical end run? When it comes to the former — and possibly future — Fort Bragg, that’s in the eye of the beholder. North Carolina state Rep.