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There is almost nothing you could name that people today will not take some offense to.
They're professionals at perpetual offense, Karens with nose rings.
Well, as a member of the fraternity, there’s really nothing to get mad about in this case. Ray Benavidez is one of ours and he’s solid. Plus he’s an enlisted man, which makes this potentially even sweeter.
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Or just use the obvious - Fort Killeen.
Please, no. Don’t name a Fort after that dump. It’s bad enough when you get orders to go to Fort Hood. Don’t actually compound the problem by reminding people where it’s located. Having to move to the armpit of the Texas Hill Country is bad enough.
I don't want military bases or anything else ever renamed. It never ends. Renaming implies or expresses things were originally improperly named. Nothing was improperly named.
Well, as a member of the fraternity, there’s really nothing to get mad about in this case. Ray Benavidez is one of ours and he’s solid. Plus he’s an enlisted man, which makes this potentially even sweeter.
Please, no. Don’t name a Fort after that dump. It’s bad enough when you get orders to go to Fort Hood. Don’t actually compound the problem by reminding people where it’s located.
I sure enjoyed Killeen and Fort Hood back in the late 80's and early 90's. It's changed. Definitely a hood now.
Well, there's an active duty US Navy cruiser named USS Chancellorsville, after a Confederate victory in the Civil War. And there were two ballistic missile submarines named USS Robert E. Lee and USS Stonewall Jackson (from a class of ships named for "great Americans"). And the Army had a couple tanks called the Lee and the Stuart.
I don't want military bases or anything else ever renamed. It never ends. Renaming implies or expresses things were originally improperly named. Nothing was improperly named.
Yeah, that horse has left the barn. The Confederates have to go. Sorry. They fought for the wrong country.
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I sure enjoyed Killeen and Fort Hood back in the late 80's and early 90's. It's changed. Definitely a hood now.
Killeen was a dump back then too. It’s always been a hole.
My Uncle lived in Lampasas and drove in everyday rather than live in the greater Killeen area. Killeen was nothing but boob bars, pawn shops, check cashing joints and run down stores.
And when I last visited only months ago, it was actually BETTER, but still a complete wasteland like it’s always been. Luckily, Hood has so many good facilities for the troops that if you live on Fort, you really don’t need to go to Killeen/Harker Heights/Copperas Cove for much of anything.
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Well, there's an active duty US Navy cruiser named USS Chancellorsville, after a Confederate victory in the Civil War. And there were two ballistic missile submarines named USS Robert E. Lee and USS Stonewall Jackson (from a class of ships named for "great Americans"). And the Army had a couple tanks called the Lee and the Stuart.
Those Confederates. They're everywhere
Yeah, all that needs to go. In time...In due time.
Why on earth did they name Ft. Bragg after Braxton Bragg? A Confederate general, he was a terrible tactician, a terrible leader, and the men under him hated him. He was ultimately relieved of command by Jefferson Davis, and we have one of the Army's most elite units based out of there.
Hood's commander wasn't solely responsible for all the homicides, assaults, and suicides that went down there.
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Why on earth did they name Ft. Bragg after Braxton Bragg? A Confederate general, he was a terrible tactician, a terrible leader, and the men under him hated him. He was ultimately relived of command by Jefferson Davis, and we have one of the Army's most elite units based out of there.
To poke African Americans in the eye and to make it clear that they’d not only stick to lost cause mythology, but that North Carolina would NEVER change its segregationist stance. It had little to nothing to do with Bragg himself who was pathetic.
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