Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin accepted the Naming Commission’s change and announced...
that derive their names from Confederate figures also are slated to have their names changed.
“The names of these installations and facilities should inspire all those who call them home, fully reflect the history and the values of the United States, and commemorate the best of the republic that we are all sworn to protect,” Austin said in the memo. Fort Hood houses around 40,000 soldiers. It was permanently established in 1950 and was named after Gen. John Bell Hood, who spearheaded the Confederate Army’s Texas brigade at the time of the Civil War. The fort is in Bell County, where 26.5 percent of residents are Hispanic.
With a combat record that included the nation’s second-highest medal for valor both in the Korean conflict and Vietnam War, Cavazos blazed a trail for generations of other Hispanic general officers. Colin Powell, who became the first African American chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and then secretary of state, alsoBorn during the Great Depression, Cavazos grew up on King ranch, where his father worked as a cowhand.
The first act that got him noticed was during the Korean War, when he returned to a raging battlefield five times to retrieve his fellow wounded soldiers, according to the Naming Commission. For his actions, he earned the Distinguished Service Cross, the nation’s second-highest military honor for valor.
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