Year in Review: Fort Bragg back on world’s largest military installation

(The Center Square) – Posthumously honoring a soldier from World War II, the world’s largest military base in North Carolina in 2025 became known again as Fort Bragg.

The home of the 82nd Airborne and Special Operations Forces, commonly known as the place where a president of the United States places his 911 call, got the name change late in the evening Feb. 10 from War Department Secretary Pete Hegseth in a memorandum. The Army base officially adopted the moniker Fort Liberty on June 2, 2023.

The base was also tied into better than $400 million worth of projects through the National Defense Authorization Act of 2026 signed by second-term Republican President Donald Trump on Thursday.

Honored in the change of name is Pfc. Roland Bragg from World War II. Bragg, of Sabattus, Maine, was born in 1923 and assigned to the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division of the 18th Airborne Corps.

According to Hegseth’s memo, Bragg was in the European theater of operations.

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