Army signals willingness to rename bases named for Confederate generals

Fort Bragg Home To U.S. Army Airborne A sign shows Fort Bragg in Fayettville, North Carolina. The 82d Airborne Division was assigned here in 1946, upon its return form Europe. In 1951, XVIII Airborne Corps was reactivated here and Fort Bragg became widely known as the "home of the airborne." (Logan Mock-Bunting/Getty Images)

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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.