Fort Hood to be renamed after Hispanic general.
The Killeen, Texas, base was named after a Confederate general and is being renamed after the Army’s first Hispanic four-star general.
Cavazos was born in Texas to Mexican-American parents, served in the Korean and Vietnam wars and become a four-star general in 1982.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.
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