Columbus State University holding a special event to celebrate the renaming of Fort Benning to Fort Moore. Students and faculty members got the opportunity to hear about who the 105-year-old Army installation will be named after.
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After half-a-decade of debate, the US Department of Defense ha announced it will rename the nine US military bases that bear named of officers of the Confederacy.
As a young Black officer, Troy Mosley arrived at Fort Benning in Georgia in 1995 where he eventually took command of a 300-person company at the age of 31. The irony of leading hundreds of troops at a world premier military base named in honor of a Confederate officer who fought to defend slavery was…