Bulls-eye.
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It would be an excellent new name. And Jackie Robinson was a staunch Republican.
Small note: Jackie Robinson didn’t break the color line for baseball. That honor goes to Moses Fleetwood Walker. They (by “they,” I mean the Whites) then made a new color line that had to be broken again.
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Walker crossed the line. Robinson broke it.
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In many cases they have been renamed as Joint Base ____. This is because multiple service branches are using the facilities. Fort was Army.
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Not the first time men came around in a body bag. I came out of shock only to find that I was in the morgue having my body washed down.
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Only the Army uses forts and camps. Forts are permanent encampments, camps are generally intended to be temporary. The Army never refers to them as Bases, the term used by Navy, Marine and Air Force.
You’ve obviously never been in the military, and are unaware of how tradition oriented it is. Use the word “base” on an Army installation and you will be quickly corrected. I don’t think the Army much cares what the names are, but fort and camp are part of their DNA.
I served in the U.S. Army from 1942 until 1965. First as an Army Brat from birth, the last 3 years on active duty. My dad swore me in.
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Elvis Presley was stationed at Ft. Hood. would you prefer Fort Presley to Fort Robinson? Here’s a short article with a few other prominent people who served at Fort Hood.https://www.hoodhomesblog.com/fort-hood-area/the-famous-folks-from-fort-hood-tx/
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Nah. On-base, off-base, return to base, list of US Army bases. Just about every significant U.S. military installation in Germany was denominated as a “Base.” The term is just generic for “military installation.”
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That is a pretty short list That is the problem I have, for example, I found General Honoree as someone who went through Ft. Hood. It all goes into the meaning want that person to represent I guess. Here is another person that has been suggested in the past.
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Wrong and wrong. The Marines use Camp. A couple examples off the top of my head are Camp Lejuene and Camp Pendleton.
And the army uses Base in many different variations. One that pops right up is Joint Base Lewis-McCord which used to be Fort Lewis. And of course countless bases in conflict zones the world over like Fire Base {insert name}, Forward Operating Base {insert name}, Main Operating Base {insert name}, Patrol Base {insert name}. Also as another poster mentioned Base is the common vernacular even when describing Forts or Camps. Head back to base, the base is in lockdown, Base alert, heading off base, etc.
You can literally google lists for every country that the different branches operate in.
~And just so you don’t again try the “if you had served” crap like you did with the other poster, I served 7 years in the Army and am a Disabled Infantry Combat Veteran.
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A lot of former military (me included) think that glorifying what we did feels wrong. The glorification of us isn’t done by us either. So when naming/renaming military installations becomes political it just seems distasteful. I get why people want to do that but I just don’t like it. Many of us just feel used I guess.
My idea is to rename them with numbers, all of them. Nobody has a problem with Area 51’s name do they?
Nothing wrong with Robinson if you want to name it after people.
Ok world flame away.
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The currently open bases are a tiny subset of what we used to have, of course, and the nomenclature there was far more diverse. In Germany, “Kaserne” was common – Panzer Kaserne, Grenadier Kaserne, Clay Kaserne, McGraw Kaserne, Flint Kaserne (a former SS school in Bad Tölz), etc., and ditto “Barracks”, like Campbell Barracks (site of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist bombing, Patch Barracks. Sometimes “Camp” as in Camp Darby in sunny Italy. Or the very originally named “Bad Aibling Station”.
In recent years, it seems that the cold unimaginative hand of bureaucracy has imposed itself more and more.
Edit: @dudeman Yes, several “Depots” too, like the old Alabama Depot in Munich, later repurposed as a concert venue.
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But Robison was always on our side. We need to update to “Fort Rommel,” or “Camp Pancho Villa.”
I was on a “Depot” in West Germany.
As part of the “gendarmerie”?
I’m down. Fort Robinson. It flows off the tongue.
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I was surprised to realize there’s no major Army base named after Eisenhower. He’s memorialized by a hospital at Fort Gordon - and yes, Gordon was a Confederate general. How about we rename Fort Gordon Fort Eisenhower?
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As I said, nearly every significant base was denominated as a Base. Kasernes, Barracks, etc. were small potatoes. But my point being, calling an installation a “base” will definitely not get you laughed at by anyone in the armed forces.
I’m in general favor of naming/renaming posts for enlisted personnel. The Navy’s equivalent is ships, and they’ve been naming ships that way for more than a hundred years.
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Destroyers, mostly, although Doris Miller is getting one of the upcoming aircraft carriers.
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