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In the first of nine scheduled redesignations, Fort Pickett in Virginia will become Fort Barfoot in honor of Col. Van Barfoot, a Medal of Honor recipient.
The renaming of Fort Pickett is part of a broader Department of Defense effort to rename military installations that were named after members of the Confederacy.
The names “embody the best of the United States Army and America,” a commission established by Congress wrote in announcing its choices.
Proposed Army base names – replacing those of Confederate soldiers – honor a Republican president, the only woman Medal of Honor recipient, and more.
An independent commission on Tuesday recommended new names for nine Army posts that commemorated Confederate officers. The commission suggested Fort Pickett, in Nottoway County, Virginia, be renamed Fort Barfoot after Tech. Sgt. Van T. Barfoot.