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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin will meet with troops from several units on the sprawling Army post, talk with top officials at base commands, and host a discussion with service spouses, according to officials at the Pentagon and Fort Bragg.
Thousands of submissions were simply ignored by the Naming Commission that proposed a new name to Congress.
What was initially more than 34,000 submissions for the panel to consider got whittled down to 3,670 to a final list of 87 potential names for the nine installations.
Fort Bragg has started the process of renaming streets that are associated with Confederate soldiers.
Fort Bragg’s Longstreet Road, which runs through the center of the North Carolina Army post, has been renamed as part of an effort to rid the military of names associated with the Confederacy, post officials announced this week.