Progress in Confederate Fort Renaming Process

     There are ten forts on the list to be renamed, including Fort Benning in Georgia and Fort Rucker in Alabama.

 

Military Times reported earlier this month that there is progress in the effort to rename Benning for a well known Army General and his wife who lived in Alabama before their deaths:

Photo  by Tim Lennox

"Another “consistent” Benning suggestion is Fort Moore, Howard said, after retired Army Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, a Vietnam War battalion commander and author of We Were Soldiers Once .... and Young, and his wife Julia, who helped revolutionize the casualty notification process after the Battle of Ia Drang."

 The Military Times article reports it will be two years before the process is settled:

"The commission has until October 2022 to get a final list of items for renaming to Congress, according to the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act, and then another year after that to implement changes."