Pete Hegseth fights law by bringing back the Allies’ names to the Army Base |

since Donald Trump His Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth returned to the office this year, tearing the new name off a series of U.S. Army bases and bringing back their old traitors.

His actions have angered Democrats, and even some Republicans in Congress, prompting a rare condemnation of the Trump administration by the Republican-controlled Congress. The Republican-led House Armed Services Committee voted on July 15 to prevent Heggs from renaming the base after the alliance. Two Republicans voted with the committee’s Democrats to pass the measure, an amendment to the Pentagon’s Budget Act.

“What this administration is doing, especially the Secretary of Defense, his finger is in Congress’ eyes,” said Don Bacon, a Republican representative in Nebraska.

Hergs’ move has aroused bipartisan anger because it violated the law. Congress passed legislation in January 2021 to create a committee to select a new name for the base named after the alliance and ask its recommendations to be implemented by the Pentagon. Trump passed the veto of the law in the final days of his first term, and the Pentagon later implemented a change of name during the Biden administration.

The law is still in the book, so to return the old alliance name, Hegseth openly played his own name game.

The secretary claimed that he changed the base after American soldiers who were not an alliance throughout the U.S. history. But they all conveniently have the same last name as the original alliance name of the base. Fort Bragg, for example, is now named after Roland Bragg, an army paratrooper of World War II. Fort Benning is now named after Fred Benning, a soldier who served in the army during World War I.

Hegseth was also challenged in the Senate before the House vote. At a hearing in June, Sen. Angus King of Maine told Heggs that he was returning the base to “the name of the person who represented slavery against the state.” Hegseth insists that the Pentagon has found non-businesses with the same name to remain “within the scope of what Congress allows us to do.” But at the same hearing, Heggs briefly gave up on his pretending that he did not return to the original Alliance name. He argued that “veterans with old names have legacy and connections.”

King replied that Heggs’ actions were “an insult to the American people.”

Most importantly, Hergs’ actions demonstrate ignorance of the eponymous life of the original alliance. Their easy-to-study background reveals the terrible role models they have created for modern American military personnel.

Braxton Bragg was one of the most incompetent ally generals of the Civil War. His subordinates repeatedly, secretly tried to get him fired and wrote to the Confederate Minister of War, “As long as we have the current commander, the hand of God can save us or help us.” Bragg finally lost command after being distributed by Union General Ulysses Grant in 1863 in the Battle of Chattanooga.

However, Bragg has been the same name today as the largest and most important military base in the U.S. Army.

Fort Bragg, located in Fayetteville, North Carolina, was originally built in 1918 as part of the military’s rush to build a new base after the United States entered World War I. The site offers cheap and abundant land and quickly establishes a military reservation summed up around it, totaling 251 square miles.

Desire to win the support of the local whites, the army agreed to name the new base after the alliance. Prague chose Prague because he was originally from North Carolina. By the time the base was built, the Civil War had ended for more than 50 years, but the South was still in the grasp of the theory of “cause of loss” of war. The theory of war romanticized the Civil War and believed that the Southern people fought for the rights of the state rather than slavery, while the Allies were increasing, and more and more officials, and the resources of the North were lost due to the loss of the northern resources of the north. By 1918, when Bragg’s name was posted on the base, the generation of confederate officers who hated him had disappeared and remembered his military mistakes.

During World War I and World War II, a series of major bases were built throughout the South. Fort Benning was also built in 1918 near Columbus, Georgia. At the request of the Rotary Club of Columbus, the army was named after Henry Lewis Benning, the pro-slave political fire extinguishing in Columbus, who helped draft the Georgia secession ordinance.

Benning was one of the outstanding white supremacists of his time, and he publicly admitted that his country stood out because of slavery rather than state rights. He said in a speech that his country was because “the deep belief of Georgia that separation from the North was the only thing that could prevent the abolition of her slavery…if things were allowed to continue…we would have black governors, black legislatures, black juries, black juries, black juries, black juries. Benning served in the Confederate Army, but it was his political role as a supporter of slavery in the South, which made him famous in the first place.

By the 21st century, there were still 10 military bases named after the Allies, and the Pentagon repeatedly resisted efforts to change its names, believing that tradition beats the fact that the bases were named after the rebels to maintain slavery. The Alliance’s basic name has finally changed after the 2020 George Floyd protest. Fort Bragg became the Free Fort, while Fort Benning became the Fort Moore, named after the Vietnam War hero Hal Moore and his wife Julia Moore. (Mel Gibson plays Hal Moore and Madeleine Stowe plays Julia Moore in the 2002 film.)

But those new names cannot survive Trump’s return to office.

Heggs was not stopped by the Army Base. The Pentagon has announced it will take off its name from the U.S. Navy ship Harvey Milk, named after the gay rights pioneer, who was assassinated in 1978 and renamed it Oscar V Peterson, a sailor who won the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War II.

But it’s certain: Braxton Bragg’s civil war contemporaries would be shocked to find that a man was ridiculed like a loser and Martinet in his lifetime 160 years after the war ended. During the war, an Allied newspaper editor described him as a man with “iron hands and wood.”

Grant was the man who defeated Bragg so badly during the war, and he was very happy to tease Bragg and his ridiculous behavior, and later wrote his memoir. Grant tells of a notorious incident involving Bragg, both serving in small pre-war U.S. troops since the Civil War.

Sometimes, when stationed in a position… (Prague) is commanding one of the companies and serving as the rear quartermaster… As the commander of the company, he solicited requests from the quartermaster (himself). As something he wanted. He refused to fill his request and used it as an agent, and he refused his request. This is the responsibility of the quartermaster.

Grant wrote in his memoir that Prague is “naturally controversial.”

So maybe Braxton Bragg.