Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth renamed the Georgia base as Fort Benning. Other bases have been renamed using a name similar to that of original namesake.

Georgia’s Fort Benning is the second base to be renamed since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assumed his post.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the renaming of Fort Moore in Georgia to its original name of Fort Benning in a memo on Monday, though he changed its namesake. The Army base was initially named after Confederate Gen.

The Secretary of Defense has renamed Fort Moore back to Fort Benning after less than two years under the current name. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum today, which confirmed the new Benning will be named after Cpl.

The base’s name was changed to Fort Moore in 2023 as part of a bipartisan effort to eliminate military honors bestowed on Confederate officers.

Fort Moore received its name in 2023 amid a bipartisan effort to remove Confederacy-linked names from military installations.

Fort Moore, a Georgia U.S. Army installation, will revert back to its old name, Fort Benning, on the orders of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has, for the second time, reversed the renaming of a U.S. military base, saying that Fort Moore in Georgia should revert back to being called Fort Benning

In 2022, a federal commission estimated that changing the names of nine military installations would cost taxpayers $21 million.

A storied Army post originally named after Confederate Gen. Henry L. Benning, then renamed Fort Moore as part of the Biden administration’s purge of military base names that honored rebel leaders, will now revert to its original moniker.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reinstated the name “Fort Benning” on Monday for one of the nation’s largest military bases — the second such reversal he’s ordered and the first that requires actually removing the name of a U.S. service member.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth ordered the renaming of Fort ... The Army base was initially named after Confederate Gen. Henry L. Benning, though its new namesake is Cpl. Fred G.