Fort Benning, the Army's giant training base in Georgia, will now be known as Fort Moore, named after Vietnam War General Hal Moore and his wife, Julia. It previously honored a secessionist ...

The Pentagon's ongoing efforts to remove Confederate-linked names from military bases continued with the ... that hell we were in," Moore told the Vietnam Archives at Texas Tech University about ...

(Army) The Army crossed the halfway mark in the final phase of shedding its Confederate base names when Georgia ... 7th Cavalry in Vietnam during the 1965 Battle of Ia Drang, the first large ...

For the first time last week, a military base was named in honor of a spouse ... Moore commanded troops in the first major battle of the Vietnam War, a role depicted in a book and a movie.

Just up the road from Killeen-Fort Cavazos is one of dozens of Vietnam War memorials and monuments dedicated to telling the ...

Hal Moore, a Korean and Vietnam War veteran ... Moore's wife, Julia Moore, also served as the base's namesake. She transformed the military's approach to notifying the families of fallen service ...

Camp Polk was officially completed August 1, 1941. Soldiers of the World War II and Vietnam eras would scarcely recognize the new Fort Johnson. Most of the old wooden buildings have been replaced ...

Fort Benning, a massive US Army training base near Columbus ... Korea, Norway and Vietnam. He commanded the United States Army’s First Battalion of the Seventh Calvary during the 1965 Battle ...

DA NANG, Vietnam (AP) — The Vietnam War ended on April 30, 1975, when the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. But millions of people still face daily battles with its chemical ...

On April 30, 1975, the communist North Vietnamese Army captured the democratic South Vietnamese capital. The last Americans evacuated the city, taking as many South Vietnamese allies with them as they ...