What a doozy of a dog whistle.

The only way they could make this any worse is if they called it Fort Adolf after they found some random person with that name.

I don’t really care about the Confederate thing, but there are two Fort Braggs, one a town in coastal California, and it was kind of obnoxious to have the same name on them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg%2C_California

It’s notable for Glass Beach:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_Beach_(Fort_Bragg%2C_California)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Bragg

So I kind of liked having it not be “Bragg”.

Also, if I remember correctly from the American Civil War military history I’ve done, Bragg (the general, not the private) didn’t actually perform very well across a number of battles. Like, he was high-ranking, but I’m not sure that he’d be someone to name forts after.

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Yeah, actually, sounds like he was outright awful, in fact.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braxton_Bragg

At the start of the Civil War, Bragg trained soldiers in the Gulf Coast region. He was a corps commander at the Battle of Shiloh, where he launched several costly and unsuccessful frontal assaults but nonetheless was commended for his conduct and bravery.

In June 1862, Bragg was elevated to command the Army of Mississippi (later known as the Army of Tennessee). He and Brigadier General Edmund Kirby Smith attempted an invasion of Kentucky in 1862, but Bragg retreated following a minor tactical victory at the Battle of Perryville in October. In December, he fought another battle at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, the Battle of Stones River, against the Army of the Cumberland under Major General William Rosecrans. After a bloody and inconclusive battle, it ended with his retreat. After months without significant fighting, Bragg was outmaneuvered by Rosecrans in the Tullahoma Campaign in June 1863, causing him to surrender Middle Tennessee to the Union. Bragg retreated to Chattanooga but evacuated it in September as Rosecrans’ troops entered Georgia. Later that month, with the assistance of Confederate forces from the Eastern Theater under James Longstreet, Bragg was able to defeat Rosecrans at the Battle of Chickamauga, the bloodiest battle in the Western Theater, and the only significant Confederate victory therein. Bragg forced Rosecrans back into Tennessee, but was criticized for the heavy casualties his army suffered and for not mounting an effective pursuit. In November, Bragg’s army was routed by Major General Ulysses S. Grant in the Battles for Chattanooga and pushed back to Georgia. Confederate President Jefferson Davis subsequently relieved Bragg of command, recalling him to Richmond as his chief military advisor. Bragg briefly returned to the field as a corps commander near the war’s end during the Campaign of the Carolinas.

Bragg is generally considered among the worst generals of the Civil War.[1] Most of the battles he engaged in ended in defeat. Bragg was extremely unpopular with both the officers and ordinary men under his command, who criticized him for numerous perceived faults, including poor battlefield strategy, a quick temper, and overzealous discipline.[1] Bragg has a generally poor reputation with historians,[1] though some point towards the failures of Bragg’s subordinates, especially Major General and former Bishop Leonidas Polk—a close ally of Davis and known enemy of Bragg—as more significant factors in the many Confederate defeats under Bragg’s command. The losses suffered by Bragg’s forces are cited as highly consequential to the ultimate defeat of the Confederate States of America.[1]

Good. They should have just done this in the first place. Fort Liberty is dumb, might as well have named it Fort Kickass. Yes, I know the services couldn’t agree on a name and that’s why it got Liberty, but it shouldn’t have been that hard to agree on another guy named Bragg. Like how Washington renamed King County for MLK instead of whatever racist it was before.