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Fort Liberty, formerly Fort Bragg, is a military installation of the United States Army in North Carolina, and is one of the largest military installations in the world by population, with over 52,000 military personnel. [2]
Jun 2, 2023 · North Carolina’s Fort Bragg is now Fort Liberty, as the US Army on Friday redesignated one of the largest military installations in the world. The renaming was formalized in a ceremony on...
Jun 2, 2023 · Fort Bragg shed its Confederate namesake Friday to become Fort Liberty in a ceremony some veterans view as a small but important step in making the U.S. Army more welcoming to Black service members. The change is the most prominent in a broad Department of Defense initiative to rename military installations bearing the name of confederate soldiers.
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- Utah State Government Reporter
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A ceremony will be held at 9 a.m. Friday to rename Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty. The ceremony will include the casing of Fort Bragg’s garrison colors and uncasing of Fort Liberty’s colors, according to a media advisory. The event will be live-streamed on the Fort Bragg Paraglide Facebook page.
The Paraglide Facebook page, which is an information page for the installation, put out a call in Marchasking community members to submit designs for a new signby April 21. The sign is expected to be revealed during Friday’s redesignation ceremony. On Monday, a tarp covered a structure near the All American gate and Fort Bragg Visitors Center that ...
As of April, the cost to replace overhead highway and directional signs maintained by the North Carolina Department of Transportation was estimated at $500,000, said Andrew Barksdale, a spokesman of the state Department of Transportation. Barksdale said highway officials will proceed with a contract to make the changes after Friday’s ceremony. Dire...
During a March media round table, Fort Bragg leaders said nine roads on post named after Confederates would also be renamed. Mosby Street was renamed Shachnow Lane last year after Maj. Gen. Sidney Shachnow,the only general officer in the Army to have survived the Holocaust and who served in Special Forces for more than 30 years. Signs on post for R...
Officials have previously said that changing roads off post, such as Reilly Road and Bragg Boulevard, would require a Cumberland County stakeholder process for address and 911 purposes. The matter has not appeared on Cumberland County Commissioners’ agendas as a discussion item to date. According to the Fort Liberty section of the Fort Bragg websit...
Jun 2, 2023 · The cost to rename Fort Bragg — one of the largest military installations in the world by population — will total about $8 million, Col. John Wilcox said Friday.
Jun 2, 2023 · Fort Bragg, the U.S. Army base in North Carolina that is among the world's largest military installations, was formally renamed Fort Liberty on Friday, part of a broader effort to...
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Jun 2, 2023 · The change is part of a broad Department of Defense initiative, motivated by the 2020 George Floyd protests, to rename military installations that had honoured Confederate soldiers.
