General Milley says military to look hard at Confederate symbology

Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley tells Maryland Congressman Anthony Brown at a House Armed Services Committee hearing that the Defense Department and joint Chiefs had a lot of discussions but to think about original decisions to name military bases after Confederate generals made in the 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, World War I and World War II to be political decisions presently, the military equity being divisiveness and cohesion, 43 percent of the United States military from minority communities, 20 percent African-American at army bases, so for some young soldiers who went to Fort Hood or Fort Bragg name for a Confederate general could be reminded that general fund for an institution of slavery that may have enslaved one of their ancestors, a young officer telling him as a staff sergeant he had to work every database the representative guy who enslaved his grandparents, to improve the substance of promotions but also take a hard look at the symbology of things like Confederate flags and statues and bases and all kinds of stuff.