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February 13, 2025

Hegseth Uses Loophole to Rename Camp Liberty Fort Bragg as He's Met with Protest at U.S. Base
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has changed the name of Camp Liberty in
North Carolina back to Fort Bragg - but there is a catch. Fort Bragg was
originally named after a Confederate slave-holding general. In order to
get around a law prohibiting naming bases after Confederate leaders,
Hegseth renamed the base after an obscure World War II soldier with the
last name of Bragg who didn't even have a Wikipedia page until this
week.

Meanwhile, more than 50 middle school students at Patch U.S. military
base in Stuttgart, Germany, staged a school walkout during a visit by
Hegseth to protest the Trump administration's rollback of diversity
initiatives, and dozens of adults who live on the base booed at Hegseth
when he arrived and chanted "DEI."


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