The Army paratrooper after whom Fort Liberty will regain the name Bragg was born June 11, 1923, in Sabbattus, Maine, to Calvin and Ella Stevens Bragg. Little is immediately known about Silver Star ...

In an Oct. 2024 campaign event in Fayetteville, N.C., Mr. Trump had pledged to change the name of Fort Bragg back from Fort Liberty. On Mr. Hegseth’s first day at the Pentagon, he referred to ...

Less than two years after Fort Bragg officially became Fort Liberty, the North Carolina Army base’s name is changing back to Fort Bragg. U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Army ...

Roland Bragg was a 21-year-old paratrooper from Maine when he found himself pinned down by artillery fire near the end of World War II, out of ammunition as the Germans closed in. He hunkered down ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday directed the U.S. Army to change the name of Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, but with a twist. Hegseth signed a memo aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 before ...

The original Fort Bragg was named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg. The renaming process involved a national commission and cost over $6 million. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a ...

Fort Liberty, the Army’s largest post, is once again Fort Bragg but without the Confederate tie. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the base renamed Monday while en route to Stuttgart ...

May we suggest she throw in Alvin Bragg? That is, the gov should at long last remove the Manhattan district attorney from his duties for cause — namely, to protect public safety. Restoring ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s move to rename Fort Bragg appears to be his latest effort to roll back Biden-administration diversity policies for the military. On Monday, a memo from Hegseth ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Is it an honor or a cynical end run? When it comes to the former — and possibly future — Fort Bragg, that’s in the eye of the beholder. North Carolina state Rep.