Editing Fort Gregg-Adams (section)

==Etymology==

The installation was initially named Camp Lee (changed to Fort Lee in 1950) after [[Robert E. Lee]], a [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] general.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |date=7 September 2023 |title=Naming of U.S. Army Posts |url=https://history.army.mil/faq/naming-of-us-army-posts.htm#fact-sheet |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201014181417/https://history.army.mil/faq/naming-of-us-army-posts.htm#fact-sheet |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 October 2020 |publisher=U.S. Army Center of Military History}}</ref> It was one of the [[List of U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers|U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers]] that the U.S. [[Naming Commission]] had recommended be renamed. On 8 August 2022, the commission proposed the name be changed to Fort Gregg-Adams, after Lieutenant General [[Arthur J. Gregg]] and Lieutenant Colonel [[Charity Adams Earley]].<ref name=":0" /> On 6 October 2022, Secretary of Defense [[Lloyd Austin]] accepted the recommendation and directed the name change occur no later than 1 January 2024.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://media.defense.gov/2022/Oct/06/2003092544/-1/-1/1/IMPLEMENTATION-OF-THE-NAMING-COMMISSIONS-RECOMMENDATIONS.PDF|title=Memorandum for Senior Pentagon Leadership, Defense Agency and DoD Field Activity Directors: Subject: Implementation of the Naming Commission's Recommendations|author=Lloyd Austin|date=6 October 2022|publisher=Secretary of Defense|access-date=27 April 2023}}</ref> On 5 January 2023, William A. LaPlante, US [[Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment|under-secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment]], directed the full implementation of the recommendations.<ref name= namingBegins>Pat Ryder.  [https://www.defense.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/3260496/pentagon-press-secretary-air-force-brig-gen-pat-ryder-holds-an-on-camera-press/ (5 January 2023) Transcript: Pentagon Press Secretary Air Force Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder Holds an On-Camera Press Briefing].  U.S. Department of Defense.  Retrieved 27 April 2023.</ref> On 27 April 2023, the post was redesignated Fort Gregg-Adams.<ref name=":1" /> It is the first U.S. military base to be named for African Americans.