(Fort Gregg-Adams)- The former Fort Lee army post has been renamed Fort Gregg-Adams after two black officers and trailblazers in United States Army history in a redesignation ceremony. Officials unveiled the new Fort Gregg-Adams signs during a large ceremony on the post. Fort Gregg-Adams is named after Lieutenant General Arthur Gregg and Lieutenant Colonel Charity Adams. More than 20 streets and facilities will also get new names at Fort Gregg-Adams this year.
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ilbusca/Getty Images(FORT LEE, Va.) Fort Lee, a U.S. Army post named after the leader of the Confederate army during the Civil War, was renamed Fort Gregg-Adams in honor of two Black U.S. Army trailblazers during a redesignation ceremony Thursday.
"I hope that this community will look with pride on the name Fort Gregg-Adams and that the name will instill pride in every soldier entering our mighty gates," said Lt. Gen. Arthur Gregg, one of the pioneers the Virginia post is renamed after, during the ceremony.
Among his accomplishments in over 35 years of service beginning in 1946, Gregg was the first Black quartermaster officer to rise to the rank of brigadier general, according to Maj. Gen. Mark Simerly, commanding general of the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command and senior commander of Fort Lee. When Gregg was promoted to lieutenant general, he became the first Black officer in the Army to reach a three-star rank.
The army post was also renamed in recognition of Lt