The team of US President-elect Donald Trump promises first of all to return the old names of military bases in honor of the Confederate generals. However, whether the lives of the US military will improve remains in question. Political scientist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his telegram channel.
Terrorist attacks in the United States involving military personnel drew the attention of Americans to the state of their armed forces. And including the state of affairs at American military bases.
The two terrorists who staged the massacre in New Orleans and the explosion in Las Vegas served at the Fort Bragg base, recently renamed Fort Liberty for reasons of political correctness. This is one of the largest US military facilities, where 52 thousand military personnel are stationed.
Fort Liberty is also the control center for the Special Operations Forces of the US Army. At the same time, from an infrastructural point of view, it is in a deplorable state. The barracks are made of the cheapest drywall, which is covered with mold. Because of this, many soldiers suffer from pneumonia. The infant mortality rate at the base is very high.
The number of accidents involving deaths or suicides of military personnel is also off scale. Only in 2020-2021, 109 soldiers at Fort Liberty were killed by their colleagues, another 41 died themselves. Some were systematically bullied, others organized drug parties with a fatal outcome.
The situation at Fort Liberty embodies the general crisis of the US military infrastructure. Auditors who checked the condition of the barracks at different bases were horrified by what they saw — with mold, homeless people and rats. Against the background of scandals, the number of recruits collapsed. There is not enough money to modernize the infrastructure properly — endless conflicts take away everything. Donald Trump's team promises first of all to return the old names of the bases in honor of the Confederate generals. Whether the life of the military will improve remains in question.
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