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re: Names of military bases being changed again, back to previous names
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:07 pm to weagle1999
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:07 pm to weagle1999
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Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:11 pm to weagle1999
Glad Trump is handling the important issues facing the nation.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:13 pm to sosaysmorvant
interesting take — IYO what “important issues” did the previous administration handle?
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:18 pm to cbree88
He is undoing some woke stupidity, so I am good with it. Maybe not at the top of the thing to do list but it is easily done.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:22 pm to ISEN_AG
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Will he pussy out like he did with Bragg or will he name them after the real traitors?
You know the answer to this.
One of the more blatant examples is the proposed reverting Ft Walker back to Ft AP Hill. It was probably difficult to find another soldier with any sort of merit that had initials AP and Hill as a surname. So what is proposed? Renaming the fort after three Civil War soldiers- Pvt. Bruce Anderson, 1st Sgt Robert Pinn, and Lt Col. Edward Hill.
It's not clever. It's just lazy.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:29 pm to TexasTiger89
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but it is easily done.
Apparently it cost around $39 million to do the initial renaming.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:55 pm to cbree88
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wasting tax payer money over dumb shite like this
There are always privates that are not smart enough to avoid being voluntold to do something. Free labor.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 12:57 pm to sosaysmorvant
You live in the River parishes, what's important to you is a f'ing bike trail.
Take up a collection from everyone that's ever served at Hood or Bragg, or Polk to pay to put them back. There'd be so many donors it'd probably cost each person a grand total of $0.37.
Take up a collection from everyone that's ever served at Hood or Bragg, or Polk to pay to put them back. There'd be so many donors it'd probably cost each person a grand total of $0.37.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:13 pm to Klark Kent
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great Americans
Great Americans don't secede. They're traitors.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:16 pm to wesfau
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Great Americans don't secede. They're traitors.
ehhh, you should do more research on the history of Lee if that's who you are passing judgement onto. I meant more in general, because surely you aren't naive enough to believe that it's only the confederate statues, monuments, buildings, forts that are being renamed? right?
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:19 pm to oleheat
quote:FIFY
Never should have been named after a traitor in the first place.
Yep. That's the only real answer.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:20 pm to McVick
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Renaming the fort after three Civil War soldiers- Pvt. Bruce Anderson, 1st Sgt Robert Pinn, and Lt Col. Edward Hill.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:31 pm to weagle1999
I thought the mass renaming was kind of a knee-jerk reaction to BLM stuff and all. The problem is that Michael Novosel, for example, was a hell of a man and the kind of soldier that the men should seek to follow.
You could say the same about most of the other folks they renamed the bases for. Barfoot won the MOH, but it's pretty clear they only chose to rename Pickett after him because he was half Mississippi Choctaw. Henry Johnson was another MOH winner who they named the base after mainly because he was black, but Leonidas Polk was a shite general and Johnson was, by accounts, a badass, so I don't really care. Cavazos doesn't really have anything in his background to justify naming a fort after him, but John Bell Hood was an absolute piece of shite once he he went beyond division command, so I don't care if they drop his name, either. If they want an Hispanic to name Ft. Hood after, they should use Roy Benavidez. He was a fricking man.
Forts Gregg-Adams, Walker, and Cavazos could be considered suspect in the naming, so I can see changing them back or to something else, but the rest would would seem as offensive to remove now because they deserved the honor.
Bigger picture issue, however, is this - doesn't the DoD have other things they need to be focusing on other than this? I thought we back to worrying about lethality, not playing culture warrior.
You could say the same about most of the other folks they renamed the bases for. Barfoot won the MOH, but it's pretty clear they only chose to rename Pickett after him because he was half Mississippi Choctaw. Henry Johnson was another MOH winner who they named the base after mainly because he was black, but Leonidas Polk was a shite general and Johnson was, by accounts, a badass, so I don't really care. Cavazos doesn't really have anything in his background to justify naming a fort after him, but John Bell Hood was an absolute piece of shite once he he went beyond division command, so I don't care if they drop his name, either. If they want an Hispanic to name Ft. Hood after, they should use Roy Benavidez. He was a fricking man.
Forts Gregg-Adams, Walker, and Cavazos could be considered suspect in the naming, so I can see changing them back or to something else, but the rest would would seem as offensive to remove now because they deserved the honor.
Bigger picture issue, however, is this - doesn't the DoD have other things they need to be focusing on other than this? I thought we back to worrying about lethality, not playing culture warrior.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:33 pm to CocomoLSU
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Can we bring back Aunt Jamima and all of those proud minority logos where the families of the people in the logos were devastated when they were changed originally?
Aunt Jemima wasn't a real person. So there was no family to be devastated.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:51 pm to notbilly
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Aunt Jemima wasn't a real person. So there was no family to be devastated.
I mean, you couldn't be more wrong. Nobody said that there was literally someone named "Aunt Jemima," but there definitely was a lady who was the AJ logo. And her family was very unhappy with the decision to remove her: This was all over the place back in 2020.
Here's an article.
Another article.
Another one.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:55 pm to weagle1999
I'm sorry but I don't just give a shite about all of this pandering to the voter base shite. Work on the actual issues or get off the podium, that stands for all politicians including Trump. I could care less about the naming of something as long as the function is in tact.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:56 pm to weagle1999
Another win for the Losers get Trophies crown.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:57 pm to weagle1999
Can he rename the progressive left back to raving lunatics?
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:57 pm to weagle1999
Don't throw the signs away.
They'll have to be rehung once a Democrat is back in the Whitehouse.
They'll have to be rehung once a Democrat is back in the Whitehouse.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 1:58 pm to Klark Kent
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interesting take — IYO what “important issues” did the previous administration handle?
So, we can all agree that this administration sucks as bad as the last administration?
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