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Hegseth Uses Loophole to Rename Camp Liberty Fort Bragg as He’s Met with Protest at U.S. Base

HeadlineFeb 13, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has changed the name of Camp Liberty in North Carolina back to Fort Bragg — but there is a catch. Fort Bragg was originally named after a Confederate slave-holding general. In order to get around a law prohibiting naming bases after Confederate leaders, Hegseth renamed the base after an obscure World War II soldier with the last name of Bragg who didn’t even have a Wikipedia page until this week.

Meanwhile, more than 50 middle school students at Patch U.S. military base in Stuttgart, Germany, staged a school walkout during a visit by Hegseth to protest the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity initiatives, and dozens of adults who live on the base booed at Hegseth when he arrived and chanted ”DEI.”

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