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Fair winds, INDOPACOM: Pentagon returns command name to US Pacific Command

U.S. Pacific Command was the formation's official name until 2018, when it was changed to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

By J.D. Simkins

4 months ago

Pentagon asks Congress to codify ‘Department of War,’ estimates $52 million cost

Only Congress has the authority to permanently rename executive department names, and it has not yet changed the title of the Department of Defense.

By Tanya Noury

5 months ago

Fort Benning returns to old name — with a new namesake

The switch comes less than two years after the post was redesignated Fort Moore as officials stripped the names of Confederate officers from bases.

18 months ago

Navy drops Confederate namesake from Naval Academy residence

The superintendent's residence at the academy is being renamed after David Glasgow Farragut, the Navy's first admiral.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

3 years ago

Why Mark Twain had an incredibly brief stint as a Confederate soldier

In the summer of 1861, the former riverboat pilot went to war.

By Claire Barrett

3 years ago

This Navy officer’s name tag invention is now available for purchase

Lt. Mitchell Kempisty spent years inventing his solution for sloppy looking name tags.

By Geoff Ziezulewicz

5 years ago

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