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by | May 10, 2023 | Archive, Southern Partisan

TEXAS: Fort Hood Renamed After Hispanic General

KILEEN, Texas — Fort Hood is getting a new name.

The Killeen, Texas, base was named after a Confederate general and is being renamed after the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general.

The base will be redesignated Tuesday as Fort Cavazos in honor of Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos.

Fort Hood was renamed Fort Cavazos.
Fort Hood was renamed Fort Cavazos.(KWTX via CNN Newsource)

Cavazos was born in Texas to Mexican-American parents, served in the Korean and Vietnam wars and become a four-star general in 1982.

He retired from the Army in 1984 after 33 years of service and died in 2017.

Fort Hood, long plagued by a series of suicides, homicides and fatal accidents, is one of nine Army installations being redesignated to remove Confederate names from military bases.

–live5news.com