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Tags: army bases | confederate generals | braxton bragg | david petraeus | base renaming

Pentagon Ready to Strip Rebel Names Off U.S. Military Bases

82nd Airborne soldiers prepare for deployment to the Middle East from Fort Bragg, N.C., in January. (Photo by Andrew Craft/Getty Images)

By    |   Wednesday, 10 June 2020 02:06 PM EDT

The U.S. Army and the Pentagon appear ready to bow to growing pressure to rebrand all 10 military bases named after Confederate military leaders -- but they may need to check with their Commander-in-Chief first. 

Secretary of Defense Mark Esper has signaled this week he's willing to rename the bases. An Army spokesman told Politico the Army "is open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic." Their one caveat is they don't want the renaming effort to become a political football.

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Retired four-star Gen. David Petraeus says 10 U.S. Army bases bearing the names of Confederate military leaders must be renamed, including Fort Bragg, the largest military installation in the world that also serves as home of the Army's Special Operations Command.Petraeus...
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