By Ellie Kaufman and Jeremy Herb, CNN
The congressional naming commission that was created to remove Confederate names from military bases will review the names of “more than 750 Defense Department items” that come with everything from military bases to streets and bridges to find out if their names “commemorate the Confederacy. “a member of the commission said Wednesday.
The Commission, created through the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021 in the face of fierce opposition from former President Donald Trump in 2020, was first tasked with renaming nine Confederate-related military bases and sites, as well as other Defense Department assets. with names commemorating the Confederation.
The list of more than 750 pieces includes only the nine military bases, but also roads, signs, bridges and fields at military bases and installations throughout the United States and two pieces at a U. S. naval base in Japan.
The list is as detailed as the names of stickers, flyers and posters at some army facilities that want to be reviewed, adding the “window decals at the Ozark and Enterprise Gate Visitor Centers” in Fort Rucker, Alabama, and the “Mechanical Room. “Signage” in Fort Benning, Georgia.
“We will update the list of actions in collaboration with the Department of Defense, adding its sub-agencies and branches of the military, as we continue to identify assets in our review domain,” retired Adm. Michelle Howard, chair of the Naming Commission, said in the statement. “This work is critical to understanding the scope and estimated charge of renaming or cutting off Confederate designated assets and will allow us to provide the most accurate report imaginable to Congress. “
The Secretary of Defense will have the final say in converting the names of the bases. The commission’s recommendations will have to come with evidence of how local communities will likely be affected by any changes.
The nine original Army facilities that the commission was tasked with examining were Fort Lee, Fort Hood, Fort Benning, Fort Gordon, Fort Bragg, Fort Polk, Fort Pickett, Fort AP Hill, and Fort Rucker. The updated list includes pieces on more than those nine army installations.
The committee’s final recommendations to Congress are expected Oct. 1.
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