The listing has essentially the most well-known navy names similar to Colin Powell and Audie Murphy, in addition to D-Day subject commander Gen. Omar Bradley and Dwight Eisenhower, World Warfare II supreme Allied commander in Europe turned president.
However the 100 names settled on Thursday by a fee appointed to wash Accomplice names — and a protracted legacy of racism and slavery — from 9 Army bases additionally embrace Alwyn Cashe, the Black Iraq conflict hero who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in December.
The escaped slave Harriet Tubman, who was a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad and a spy for the Union, and Union 1st Sgt. Powhatan Beaty, who escaped slavery and fought the South within the Civil Warfare, may additionally quickly have their names on one of many largest navy bases within the U.S., similar to Fort Bragg, North Carolina, which was named in 1918 for Gen. Braxton Bragg, who fought for the Confederacy.
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The Naming Fee launched its listing for Army installations and is slated handy over a remaining plan to Congress by October to re-name Fort Bragg; Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Rucker, Alabama; Fort Polk, Louisiana; Fort Benning and Fort Gordon in Georgia; and Fort A.P. Hill, Fort Lee and Fort Pickett in Virginia.
“It is essential that the names we suggest for these installations appropriately replicate the braveness, values and sacrifices of our numerous navy women and men,” retired Navy Adm. Michelle Howard, the chair of the Naming Fee, stated in a launched assertion. “We are also contemplating the native and regional significance of names and their potential to encourage and encourage our service members.”
Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin, the primary Black individual to serve in that place, is predicted to announce new names for a number of the nation’s most iconic navy amenities in 2023.
Congress created the fee as a part of a historic transfer to wash the tributes to the Confederacy memorialized by means of the navy installations following a rising realization {that a} numerous, all-volunteer pressure ought to now not carry the legacy of racism. The laws was sponsored by Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Md.; Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb.; and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
However the change has additionally sparked some outrage and backlash as some argue the Accomplice tributes ought to stay as a part of the navy’s historical past and tradition. The fee traveled to the bottom communities and met with residents final 12 months, and requested for ideas by means of the web.
“A few of these ideas on the web site are fairly intense,” Howard, who’s Black, stated in October. “There are some people who’re distinctly opposed and the verbiage that [they] use is sort of deliberate they usually make it clear they don’t help the fee.”
Total, the eight-member fee acquired 34,000 submissions with 3,670 distinctive names, it stated Thursday. It whittled that all the way down to 100 candidate names for the Army bases.
Right here is the complete listing:
John Aiso
Alexander Augusta
Vernon Baker
Van Barfoot
Powhatan Beaty
Roy Benavidez
Omar Bradley
Ruby Bradley
William Bryant
Jose Calugas
William Carney
Alwyn Cashe
Richard Cavazos
Cornelius Charlton
Charles Chibitty
Ernest Childers
Mary Clarke
Mitchell Pink Cloud
Harold Cohen
Felix Conde-Falcón
Braveness
Bruce Crandall & Ed Freeman
Benjamin Davis, Sr.
Ernest Dervishian
Desmond Doss
Charity Earley
Dwight Eisenhower
Marcario García
James Gavin
Eduardo Gomez
Gary Gordon & Randall Shughart
Arthur Gregg
Barney Hajiro
Kimberly Hampton
Anna Hays
Rodolfo Hernández
Robert Howard
Lawrence Joel
Henry Johnson
Hazel Johnson-Brown
Charles Kelly
Mildred Kelly
Charles Kettles
Milton Lee
José López
John Magrath
George Marshall
Frank Merrill
Jimmie Monteith
Hal & Julia Moore
Sadao Munemori
Audie Murphy
Michael Novosel, Sr.
Elsie Ott
John Web page
Emmett Paige Jr.
Frank Peregory
Emily Perez
Pascal Poolaw
Colin Powell
Ralph Puckett
Matthew Ridgway
Ruben Rivers
Roscoe Robinson Jr.
Tibor “Ted” Rubin
James Rudder
Alejandro Ruiz
Benjamin Salomon
Ruppert Sargent
Paul Smith
Donn Starry
Freddie Stowers
Jon Swanson
Central Texas
Charles Thomas
Hugh Thompson Jr.
Harriet Tubman
Humberto Versace
John Vessey Jr.
Francis Wai
Mary Walker
George Watson
Homer Sensible
Rodney Yano
Alvin York
Charles Younger
Rodger Younger
— Travis Tritten will be reached at travis.tritten@navy.com. Comply with him on Twitter @Travis_Tritten.
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