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.”