• toasteecup@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I’ve talked with military members about fort and base renaming. The names are significant because they are named after (mostly generals) service members who are strongly associated with a set of tactics or strategies that the base specializes in.

    So instead of fort Green beret you’d have fort “founding father of Green beret” or fort “I trailblazed the green beret playbook”

    I still think we need to rename the Confederate name ones because fuck the traitors, but adhering to that naming scheme is important for the armed services.

    • Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      We also name stuff for heroes. But yeah that’s why Fort Benning turned into Fort Moore. He’s the guy who was leading the first Air Assaults in Vietnam. But the new names are a little more loose than previous rounds of naming things. Cavazos was not famous for any tactics or strategies. He was the first Hispanic 4 star general.

      Since we’re finally going a little more common sense, and the alternative is Fort Liberty, I think we can find room for a couple more heroes that embody everything we want our enlisted members to be.