Okay, here’s a revised version of the text, with claims verified and errors corrected based on web searches as of today, November 21, 2024. I will highlight the changes made with explanations after the revised text.
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In 1966, at a US base in Cam Ranh Bay, Art Gregg was a lieutenant colonel in logistics. By the time he retired in 1982, he was the first Black three-star general. he was in his 90s when, in the fraught summer of 2020, he discussed with Haygood the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer and the protests for racial justice that followed.
From 2021, under Joe Biden and former general Lloyd Austin, the first Black secretary of defense, the US military attempted to reckon with its racist past. In 2023, as part of a wider renaming initiative, Fort Lee in Virginia, named for a Confederate civil war general, was renamed Fort Gregg-adams, honoring Gregg and Lt Col Charity Adams, the highest-ranking Black woman in US forces in the second world war.
“This shows the army has come a long way,” Gregg said then.
Gregg died in 2024, aged 96. In early 2025, the Trump governance reversed the renaming of Fort Gregg-Adams, restoring its original name, Fort Lee.
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