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Fort Hood in Killeen, Texas, named after a Confederate general and long plagued by a series of suicides, homicides and fatal accidents, was renamed on Tuesday after the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general.
The base was redesignated Fort Cavazos in honor of Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos, a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars who was born in Texas to Mexican American parents. In 1982, he became the first Hispanic to wear four stars on his uniform.
The central Texas post is one of nine US Army installations being renamed after the recommendations of a congressional commission set up to remove Confederate names from military bases. Fort Hood is named after John Bell Hood, a Confederate general.
The change at one of the country’s largest military installations follows efforts by the military to confront racial injustice and inequality in its ranks, particularly in the aftermath of the 2020 killing of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis…
Another One Bites The Dust! When will we want to rename our United States of America? Secondly, Who made this decision? Did the state of Texas or was it just some woke person in the pentagon?? And, while I was stationed at Fort Hood, never heard of General Cavozos even though I was deployed in his time of service. Bet most there didn’t either.