Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community issues, separate from our newsroom reporting. Fort Liberty is Fort Bragg again, as ordered by U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete ...

The US military base formerly known as Fort Liberty is once again Fort Bragg after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reversed the 2023 name change. The Pentagon stated that the name now honors Pfc ...

The renaming of Fort Liberty to Fort Bragg is a complex issue that highlights the ongoing debate about how to address the legacy of the Confederacy in the United States.

Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum on Monday night restoring the name of the Army post now known as Fort Liberty.

The massive post will now be called Fort Roland L. Bragg while in the past it was named for Gen. Braxton Bragg, a Confederate general from Warrenton.

The Pentagon will change the name of the North Carolina military base Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, fulfilling a campaign pledge by President Trump while honoring a different eponym. Defense Sec… ...

Local News Fort Liberty named Fort Bragg once again - but this time it's for someone else On the campaign trail, President Trump criticized the renaming of the base to Fort Liberty.

The army installation’s name was changed to Fort Liberty in 2023, after Congress passed a law to rename all military bases named after Confederacy officials and generals.

The Pentagon announced Monday it would restore Fort Liberty's original name of Fort Bragg, but would honor a different Bragg than the base's original Confederate namesake.

On Monday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo that orders the Army to rename Fort Liberty back to Fort Bragg, this time in honor of a different soldier.

Renaming Fort Bragg to Fort Liberty cost more than $6 million in federal funds, with the bulk of the costs being sign changes and technology costs for the installation’s website.