Her Medal of Honor was once revoked. Now her base is being renamed.
Fort Walker, named in 2023 after Civil War Union surgeon Mary Walker, will revert back to Fort A.P. Hill. For her family, the retraction feels familiar.
By Hope Hodge Seck
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Marine recruit who died at boot camp in 2023 had asthma, Corps finds
The death of Pfc. Noah Jamar Evans on April 18, 2023, during a physical fitness test prompted the Marine Corps to open an investigation.
Honorary Marine, whom the Corps welcomed as one of its own, dies at 17
Jack Lowe became an honorary Marine in November 2023 following a diagnosis of terminal bone cancer.
Marines embrace young honorary Marine with cancer ‘as one of our own’
Although Jack Lowe was in pain, he remained standing during the ceremony, even raising his right hand from his walker to recite his oath.
Navy cancels plan to force recruiters to work six days a week
The about-face comes one day after Navy Times reported that recruiters had been ordered to work six days a week.
Halfway through base name changes, business as usual across the Army
The Army crossed the halfway mark in the final phase of shedding its Confederate base names when Georgia’s Fort Benning was rechristened Fort Moore.
By Davis Winkie