The naming commission was created back in late 2020 and began its work shortly after that, but it first looked at different names for military bases. then it looked at the academies and that s what brought us here to a list of these 13 things that have to be changed or have recommendations to change at west point. in the letter, the superintendent of west point said they would begin work on these and there s a committee set up to find replacement names and do this. there s a port rate of robert e. lee that will be removed, a quote from him, again, building names as well as street names. all of that will be part of this process to remove anything that commemorates or memorializes the confederacy at west point. it s not just west point. we re seeing the military change the names of bases. fort bragg will become fort liberty. benning will become moore. they re working there you this to make sure it doesn t commemorate the confederacy in some way because of the
Great christmas for skiing. no place like home for the holidays and thousands of u.s. soldiers will spend christmas with their families after military leaders granted them a break from training. jonathan is live in atlanta where a lot of soldiers are hey, john. we re talking about thousands today. 6,000 expected to travel through the airport. in all, ft. benning has granted 12,000 soldiers a holiday block leave. about half traveling with family or by bus. the other half coming through atlanta s hartsfield-jackson. during this phase of training, it s important the young men and women get a chance to rest and also a chance to show their family and friends back home how military life has transformed them for the better. you know, we make a handshake with america every time moms and
Iran s ties to china are stronger, and ties to russia are more stronger it is more complicated than needed. we have a president of the united states who wants to promote aggressively gun control against innocent american citizens. as if that will resolve anything. and at the same time, he is leading an administration with a failed diplomatic national security agenda. which will ensure that a terrorist state, has nuclear weapons, effective nuclear weapons. how about we have some nuclear weapons control in the middle east rather than benning over back ward back warred, the more and more i fear there is only one way out it has to be to strike the
Stronger, and ties to russia are more stronger it is more complicated than needed. we have a president of the united states who wants to promote aggressively gun control against innocent american citizens. as if that will resolve anything. and at the same time, he is leading an administration with a failed diplomatic national security agenda. which will ensure that a terrorist state, has nuclear weapons, effective nuclear weapons. how about we have some nuclear weapons control in the middle east rather than benning over back ward back warred, the more and more i fear there is only one way out it has to be to strike the
While stationed at ft. benning, georgia, he and his roommate michael fortier bond with their platoon leader terry nichols over a distrust of the federal government. mcveigh took an instant liking to him, and he loved hearing nichols spout off about his theories about government and politics. mcveigh serves during operation desert storm in 1991 and is awarded a bronze star for valor. during his service, he kills at least two enemy combatants. one thing he did brag about in saudi arabia in war, he was a gunner on a bradley and told me one time about when he was shooting at a bunker and a guy came out waving his hands trying to surrender and stuff, and mcveigh started shooting at him with .25 millimeter. he said it was 1,100 meters and the first round hit the guy in the head.