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maineman » 22 Jan 2024, 11:32 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:32 am

If you were a black American man, who volunteered to serve our country in the Army, would you like to go learn how to jump out of airplanes at a place named IN HONOR of a racist slave-owning white supremacist?  Would you think it was a GOOD thing to name places in honor of people like that so that Americans wouldn't ever forget the civil war and the root cause of it?  No different than a Jewish child going to high school at Hitler High.

Huey » 22 Jan 2024, 11:30 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:30 am

I never said I "intended" to.

Huey » 22 Jan 2024, 11:35 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:35 am

Never heard anyone complain about it.

maineman » 22 Jan 2024, 11:36 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:36 am

not intending to even attempt to correct your 40-year habit is basically the same thing.

Huey » 22 Jan 2024, 11:37 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:37 am

@maineman  

There are confederate soldiers buried in Arlington.

Huey » 22 Jan 2024, 11:41 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:41 am

I didn't say that either.  I notice that when you come here you have to fabricate what the other person is saying to make a point.  I guess you are not a smart man.

maineman » 22 Jan 2024, 9:57 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 9:57 am

I am curious.  Do you think that the name of the military installation somehow impacts what activities are carried out there?  Do you think that learning how to jump out of an airplane becomes somehow less effective at a fort named Moore instead of Banning?

Huey » 22 Jan 2024, 11:41 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:41 am

I didn't say that either.  I notice that when you come here you have to fabricate what the other person is saying to make a point.  I guess you are not a smart man.

POM » 22 Jan 2024, 11:42 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:42 am

MAINEMAN IS A WASHED UP DRUNK
 


 

maineman » 22 Jan 2024, 11:43 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:43 am

bad guess.

just like your guess about me not knowing anything about General Benning.

 

ConsRule » 22 Jan 2024, 11:42 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:42 am

If the name has nothing to do with the quality of training and/or work taking place, why change the name?  My guess...98% of American citizens have no clue what anyone did to merit having a fort named after them (with the possible exception of Eisenhower).

Huey » 22 Jan 2024, 11:37 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:37 am

@maineman  

There are confederate soldiers buried in Arlington.

Huey » 22 Jan 2024, 11:44 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:44 am

You didn't.  Google is your friend. You also did not know that a total of 9 bases were renamed.

maineman » 22 Jan 2024, 11:50 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:50 am

I most certainly did.  

When one attends an institution of higher learning run by the US Military since before the Civil War, that person is taught a curriculum loaded with US Military history.  I daresay I have forgotten more about the careers of the military leaders with installations named after them than you have ever known.

 

Huey » 22 Jan 2024, 11:54 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:54 am

You probably do, Passed Over.  I never really cared.  

And you didn't know because you did not get Trumps attempt at a joke.  You centered on ONE base.

maineman » 22 Jan 2024, 11:58 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:58 am

I mentioned one of the other bases he named in the title of this very thread!  

And FYI... I retired after 21 years of commissioned service.  I was never in zone for O-6.

Huey » 22 Jan 2024, 11:35 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:35 am

Never heard anyone complain about it.

maineman » 22 Jan 2024, 11:58 am » wrote: ↑

22 Jan 2024, 11:58 am

I mentioned one of the other bases he named in the title of this very thread!  

And FYI... I retired after 21 years of commissioned service.  I was never in zone for O-6.