{"id":40500,"date":"2026-10-29T11:41:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=40500"},"modified":"2026-10-29T11:41:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T16:41:56","slug":"give-me-a-break-democrats-renamed-1750-military-assets-and-geographic-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2026\/10\/29\/give-me-a-break-democrats-renamed-1750-military-assets-and-geographic-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Give Me a Break &#8211; Democrats Renamed 1,750 Military Assets and Geographic Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump renamed this or he renamed that. So!!!<\/p>\n<p>During the 2020\u20132024 terms (which saw a<strong> Democratic-majority<\/strong> Congress from 2021\u20132023 and the administration of Joe Biden), the federal government completed the renaming of over <strong>1,750 military assets and geographic features.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Geographic Features (Roughly 650 Locations)<\/strong> -In 2021, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland declared the word &#8220;squaw&#8221;\u2014a derogatory term used against Native American women\u2014offensive. A 13-member task force consulted with nearly 70 tribal governments to review federal lands. In September 2022, the U.S. Board on Geographic Names finalized the renaming of 650 geographic sites (including lakes, mountains, and streams) to strip them of the slur.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Department of Defense Assets (Over 1,100 Items)<\/strong> &#8211; The Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)\u2014originally authored via a bipartisan effort spurred by congressional Democrats\u2014created an independent Naming Commission. The mandate required the Department of Defense to identify and rename all assets honoring the Confederacy.\n<p>The commission identified and renamed more than 1,100 DoD assets, which included:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"\" data-bfc=\"\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjQkI_F09-XAxW_4skDHVcjMVAQi4wTegoIAggACAAIJhAB\" data-hveid=\"CAIIAAgACCYQAQ\" data-complete=\"true\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"Z1qcYe\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-hveid=\"CAIIAAgACCYQAg\" data-complete=\"true\"><span class=\"iNqyIf\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-complete=\"true\"><strong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-complete=\"true\">9 Major U.S. Army Bases:<!--TgQPHd|||[]--><\/strong> Bases across the American South were renamed in 2023. For example, Fort Bragg (NC) was renamed Fort Liberty, and Fort Benning (GA) was renamed Fort Moore.<\/span><!--TgQPHd|||[]--><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--TgQPHd|||[]--><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-bfc=\"\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjQkI_F09-XAxW_4skDHVcjMVAQi4wTegoIAggACAAIJhAH\" data-hveid=\"CAIIAAgACCYQBw\" data-complete=\"true\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"Z1qcYe\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-hveid=\"CAIIAAgACCYQCA\" data-complete=\"true\"><span class=\"iNqyIf\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-complete=\"true\"><strong class=\"rQesXe MPyX\" data-sfc-cp=\"\" data-sfc-root=\"c\" data-complete=\"true\">Naval and Academy Assets:<!--TgQPHd|||[]--><\/strong> Various buildings, streets, ships, and monuments at West Point, the U.S. Naval Academy, and other military properties were systematically stripped of Confederate ties.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-29060 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/PEN-NEWS.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump renamed this or he renamed that. So!!! During the 2020\u20132024 terms (which saw a Democratic-majority Congress from 2021\u20132023 and the administration of Joe Biden), the federal government completed the renaming of over 1,750 military assets and geographic features. Geographic Features (Roughly 650 Locations) -In 2021, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland declared the word &#8220;squaw&#8221;\u2014a derogatory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40501,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40500\/revisions\/40501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}