The Army is “open to a bipartisan discussion” on renaming at least 10 bases and other facilities named for Confederate leaders.
An Army official told POLITICO Monday that Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy was open to a discussion on the matter.
“The Secretary of the Army is open to a bipartisan discussion on the topic,” Army spokesperson Col. Sunset Belinsky told POLITICO.
All Confederate flags, bumper stickers and similar items were ordered to be removed from Marine Corps bases by Marine Gen. David Berger earlier this year.
In 2017, the Army refused to rename the street signs of military base Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York.
It declined a request to remove the names of Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson from its streets, saying they were honored at Fort Hamilton “as individuals, not as any particular cause or ideology,” according to a letter from the office of the assistant secretary of Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.
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