Georgia’s Fort Benning renamed Fort Moore in honor of decorated military couple

The Army has officially renamed Fort Benning in Georgia to Fort Moore in honor of Lt. Gen. Harold “Hal” Moore and his wife, Julia Moore. The couple made “meaningful and lasting contributions” to the Army, officials said in a statement. Gen. Moore served from 1945 to 1977 with a number of assignments in different countries, including during the Battle of Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam in 1965, which was dramatized in the film “We Were Soldiers.” Julia Moore “was equally distinguished as a leader of Army family programs who changed how the military cares for the widows of fallen Soldiers,” the Army ...