Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered Fort Liberty to be renamed Fort Bragg, signaling the start of efforts to reverse the name changes made to Army bases that once honored Confederate leaders, the Washington Examiner reported.

Hegseth indicated that other bases, including Fort Moore in Georgia, formerly Fort Benning, could also see name reversals.

“We’re not done there,” he said during a news conference in Germany. “There’s a reason I said ‘Bragg’ and ‘Benning’ when I walked into the Pentagon on day one.

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