Fort Cavazos Renamed in Honor of WWI Army Colonel Robert Hood, Medal of Honor Recipient

[army judge]

FORT CAVAZOS, Texas — Editor's note: Six hours after this article was published, the U.S. Army Fort Hood media center issued a press release stating the installation received official orders to implement the change. You can read the full update here.

The renaming of Fort Cavazos to Fort Hood isn't quite as simple as the stroke of a pen. In fact, we're learning it will be weeks before it becomes official.

During a speech at Fort Bragg on June 10, President Donald Trump announced that seven military bases, including Fort Cavazos, would be changed back to their original names. So, Fort Cavazos would become Fort Hood again.
Except this time, Fort Hood would be named after Col. Robert B. Hood instead of John Bell Hood, a Confederate general from the Civil War.
The announcement was followed by an order, effective June 11, signed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of the Army Daniel Driscoll, to change the names.
However, the change isn't immediate. Fort Cavazos Director of Public Affairs Chris Haug said Senior Commander on Fort Cavazos, Lt. Gen. Kevin Admiral must first receive an Execution Order from Operations Command. Haug said that may take a few weeks.
Until then, Haug said they will continue to refer to the post as Fort Cavazos, any websites associated with the post will remain Fort Cavazos, and all signage will say Fort Cavazos.
There was some confusion on whether the name had already changed on Monday because the Fort Cavazos website URL was changed to home.army.mil/hood/.
However, the site homepage still says Fort Cavazos. The page is operated by the U.S. Army Installation Management Command (IMCOM) in San Antonio. Haug said the URL would be changed back to say Fort Cavazos.
Haug said when the Execution Order comes, it will include guidance on how to make the change. He said there would be a ceremony, similar to the one held when it was designated as Fort Cavazos in 2023. He also said Post leadership would work with the Texas Department of Transportation to change the highway signs around Central Texas.

Fort Cavazos or Fort Hood: Here's what we know

In stories about Fort Cavazos, a lot of people commented that we should say Fort Hood. So, we asked Fort Cavazos and Army Public Affairs to clear it up.

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[adjusterjack]

What a effing waste of taxpayer money, changing the names of all those forts in the first place. Cancel culture at its finest.

 

[Zigner]

They're not white sheets...they're comforters.

 

[adjusterjack]

They're not white sheets...they're comforters.

Huh?

 

[Tax Counsel]

Huh?

I think Zigner was referring to the KKK, the members of which wear white robes and hoods.

 

[Tax Counsel]

What a effing waste of taxpayer money, changing the names of all those forts in the first place. Cancel culture at its finest.

Yes, it was a waste of taxpayer money when the Democrats did during Biden's term and now Trump is getting on the bandwagon by doing the same thing.

 

[army judge]

I never understood why US Military Bases/Forts were ever named after Confederate Army Generals/Personnel in the first place.

Some historians do note that it was for reconciliation. That never made sense, because it was another slap in the face of former slaves, along with their families.

Heck, there were some excellent German and Japanese Generals and Admirals that opposed our military commanders during WWII.

However, former President Truman never considered naming any US Military installation after any of them.

 

[Foamback]

It's part reconciliation, part lost cause, part racism, part not caring, and part molly coddling the south that has gone on forever.

Wars don't stop on a dime with surrender or armistice. If that was true we wouldn't still be fighting the Crimean War/WWI/WWII/the Cold War and the Korean War right now.

In the name of votes and disunity some administration have sucked onto the southern myth. That's what happened then and what is happening now.

I recommend this book.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/books/review/robert-e-lee-and-me-ty-seidule-shot-in-the-moonlighht-ben-montgomery.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

[army judge]

It's part reconciliation, part lost cause, part racism, part not caring, and part molly coddling the south that has gone on forever.

As a retired US Army Brigadier General, originally serving as an Army Ranger, with 5 years combat in the jungles of Southeast Asia, receiving a battle field commission, along with the Distinguished Service Cross, three Silver Stars, and four Bronze Stars; I experienced war first hand. I don't need to read anyone's account of what Molly coddlers and shirkers think. I lived it. I'm not a whiner, but I choose to opine about our wrongs, rather than imitate ostriches, hiding my head in shame.

I have zero regrets, and I'm extremely grateful to God Almighty for allowing me to survive those five years.

Frankly, naming our military bases after those we vanquished was a stupid idea. Renaming them after leaders of our military forces should have been sufficient. That said, those that do, rarely have a say about what politicians do.

Its always stuck in my craw that our great nation has yet to atone and make efforts to acknowledge the crime against humanity we know as slavery!!!

 

[Foamback]

Not sure what you are actually saying beyond that we should (actually they) have never named military bases after CSA generals.

I agree wholeheartedly with that. I was just relating my thoughts of why it happened. The present administration changing names again is an insult

 

[army judge]

The present administration changing names again is an insult

People often disagree.

What 47's administration did, by renaming our military bases is a small step in the CORRECT direction.

I can only hope, sooner or later, our nation atones for the evil acts perpetrated on innocent Africans, thousands of miles away on the African continent, before their kidnap and unlawful transport across the Atlantic Ocean.

We've made some relevant corrections, in regards to the abuses perpetrated on Native Americans, upon our arrival to North America.

 

[Foamback]

You lost me. Biden changed the names from CSA generals, 47 changed them back, but to different inviduals with the same last name

Kind of weird

And then there are the ships

Hegseth Wants to Rename 8 Naval Ships. Here Are the Stories Behind Their Namesakes

After Military.com's reporting, CBS confirmed the defense secretary's plans to rename seven other naval ships who honor civic leaders and activists. Here are the stories of those ships' namesakes.

www.military.com

 

[army judge]

You lost me. Biden changed the names from CSA generals, 47 changed them back, but to different inviduals with the same last name

The new names represent decorated, US military personnel, not former CSA military leaders.

 

[Foamback]

This is similar. How do you have a place like Minitoka, Sand Creek, Manzanaar, and eastern seaboard slavery sites I haven't been to without criticizing some of the figures of the past?

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/climate/national-parks-trump-americans-censorship.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

 

[Foamback]

The new names represent decorated, US military personnel, not former CSA military leaders.

Yes. But then again so did the Biden era names.

 

[army judge]

Creek, Manzanaar, and eastern seaboard slavery sites I haven't been to without criticizing some of the figures of the past?

What our country did to citizens of Japanese, African, and Native American ancestry is despicable and depraved.

We have done a little something to remediate our deleterious behhavior, and inhumane treatment of those innocents.

We've done nothing to compensate African descendants.

Let's not forget what political party instituted slavery, and it's cousin "Jim Crow".

I remember Governors of southern states blocking black children from public schools and colleges.

 

[Zigner]

PHUCK!
(I didn't say f**k, it's a completely different word.)

Changing the names back but claiming it's in honor of a different person who has the same last name is utter BS.

 

[Foamback]

Yup

Just DEI hire Hegseth bowing to his racist benefactors

 

[Tax Counsel]

Its always stuck in my craw that our great nation has yet to atone and make efforts to acknowledge the crime against humanity we know as slavery!!!

I feel much the same way. We've never even had national conversation about what would be the most appropriate remedy, let alone actually doing something about it. A lot of people who still harbor some racial animus towards African Americans say that the Civil Rights of 1964 was all that we needed because prohibits discrimination against African Americans in employment, in places of public accommodation, and a few other situations. As a result they claim that African Americans are now equal and that's all we are required to do. The Civil Rights Act was important and necessary to prevent further discrimination (though it hasn't worked well enough as there is still plenty of discrimination occuring even today. It did not, as you alluded to, do anything to actually compensate African Americans for the harm caused to their ancestors by slavery and the discrimination that followed with laws, especially in the South, that had the effect of limiting the advancement of African Americans. The Jim Crow laws were an abomination. We as a nation should do a lot better than what we've done so far. We need to take the steps needed to truly give them the equality that they are promised in the Constitution.

 

[army judge]

We need to take the steps needed to truly give them the equality that they are promised in the Constitution.

I'm in 100% agreement with you.
We've never even, as a nation, had a discussion of the evil we perpetrated on innocents, or how we atone for our actions.

The constitution is a beautiful document, our actions were most foul.