The Army has officially renamed Fort Benning in Georgia to Fort Moore in honor of Lt. Gen. Harold \u201cHal\u201d Moore and his wife, Julia Moore. The couple made \u201cmeaningful and lasting contributions\u201d to the Army, officials said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Gen. Moore served from 1945 to 1977 with a number of assignments in different countries, including during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, which was dramatized in the film \u201cWe Were Soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julia Moore \u201cwas equally distinguished as a leader of Army family programs who changed how the military cares for the widows of fallen Soldiers,\u201d the Army said. It wasn\u2019t until after her lobbying that the Army began sending a uniformed soldier and chaplain to notify families of battlefield fatalities. Previously families were notified by telegram.<\/p>\n
Hal Moore also oversaw the service\u2019s personnel policy and installed the Army\u2019s first major equal opportunity rules.<\/p>\n
\u201cEach man must be continually provided fair treatment and equal opportunity, within appropriate regulations, to rise to as high a level of responsibility as his talent and diligence will take him,\u201d he wrote in a memo<\/a>, according to military.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Both Moores are buried at the base\u2019s cemetery.<\/p>\n Maj. Gen. Curtis Buzzard praised the Moores during a ceremony Thursday.<\/p>\n \u201cLt. Gen. Hal and Julie Moore were courageous leaders and visionaries whose lives exemplify duty, honor, country, and each time we pass through the gates, their legacy will inspire us,\u201d Buzzard said.<\/p>\n The fort\u2019s new sign was also unveiled Thursday.<\/p>\n The new designation comes days after Fort Hood was renamed Fort Cavazos<\/a> after Gen. Richard Cavazos, the first Hispanic four-star general in the Army. Fort Pickett in Virginia was redesignated Fort Barfoot in March.<\/p>\n The new names are among nine bases being renamed to remove any reference to the Confederate States of America\u2019s military and its leaders, an ongoing Defense Department effort.<\/p>\n Fort Moore, a massive training base near Columbus, Georgia, was originally named after pro-slavery and pro-secession Confederate Gen. Henry Benning. It opened in 1918.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n \u00a92023 New York Daily News. Visit nydailynews.com<\/a>. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.<\/a> <\/p>\n KeyWords:: 3d617bae-73ff-425d-9f31-97378d7f6a27 The Army has officially renamed Fort Benning in Georgia to Fort Moore in honor of Lt. Gen. Harold \u201cHal\u201d Moore and his wife, Julia Moore. The couple made \u201cmeaningful and lasting contributions\u201d to the Army, officials said in a statement. Gen. Moore served from 1945 to 1977 with a number of assignments in different countries, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10038,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions\/10038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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