Soon to be a memory.  The Rucker signage is coming down and Fort Novasel signage is replacing it.

This is absolutely ridiculous, but at least the Novasel's are worthy!  

Alabama ought to tell the feds to leave.

Ask oll Rucker himself, he'd know.

worthy of change, going and coming, are both honorable.

It was ridiculous to name it Camp Rucker in the first place.  Rucker never even served in the US Army before or after the Civil War.  

Mike Novosel from 1972 onwards.  Very solid man in all manner of speak.  You'd be proud to know him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Novosel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_J._Novosel

Novasel is definitely worthy but it will always be MOTHER RUCKER to me!!!!!

in this country named after a confederate soldier. no statues, nothing. traitors, every one of them.

me neither

churchill did not attack his own citizens in an attempt to keep slavery going, so there's that. 

A Fort, or Camp, or other military installation is not a statue. Take your autism elsewhere.

And the same garbage is about destruction.  Better if such names as Mike Novosel come up in further makings, not controversial/political garbage like this.  I wonder what is on Mike's mind in this matter.  I'm sure it would be positive and constructive - he always was.  His legacy.

man who walked with God on his shoulder all the way.  That's the secret.

Father and Son. Great story...

https://goefoundation.org/eagles/novosel-michael-j-jr/

I'd be all for renaming Fort Rucker "Fort Novosel".

I was in Vietnam at the same time as Mr Novosel and may have been present at some of his Medevac flights.

I remember one medevac that I covered with a Cobra team (and the USAF and the VNAF) that could well have been Mr Novosel:

Evening, and dusk is falling in the far south of Vietnam. My Cobra team had landed to refuel and rearm as I headed to the same stage field to refuel and brief for the nights' missions. Camau radio asked if I could do a medevac on the near side of the U Minh: of course I could (one didn't decline medevacs).

I turned West and called those on-site for a sit rep and the pick-up site came into view- a dry rice paddy dike taking fire frome the front and the side from L-shaped tree lines. I 'waren't' looking forward to that LZ, fire coming from the front or back and one side!

And then a VNAF Spooky showed up, checked in and I set up for the approach. And I heard the voice of an angel with salvation "Dustoff *** is 5 minutes out, whatcha got?" on the FM. My job changed to my more typical assignment, coordinating my Cobra team with what was happening...

I'm doing high right hand orbits over the Snakes and Spooky when Dustoff landed, the tree lines sparking with muzzle blasts and dust kicking up all around as the ground guys stuffed the wounded on board... not a peep out of Dustoff asking for more smoke on the bad guys. Honest to pete- the tree lines looked like they had christmas tree lights all over. I'm very, very happy not to be listyening to those rounds coming through my aircraft.

Dustoff takes a turning rise to a nose down departure away from all the hate.

35 years later I asked a fellow pilot who'd flown medevac there at that time if he had been the pilot? He wasn't sure, Dustoff were flying non-stop for 24, 36 and 48 hour duty periods and he was afraid he's slept through some excitement....

apples and watermelons. The Indians were trying to protect THEIR OWN LAND. The confederates declared war against their own country and are traitors.

Those Forts were named for Southern Generals for a reason...to appease the humiliated South. The more you know...

nonsense. "The bases were originally named as part of a movement to glorify the Confederacy and advance the Lost Cause myth that the Civil War was fought over “states' rights” and not slavery." 

we don't need to appease loser traitors decades later. what's the saying...get over it.

"we don't need to appease loser traitors decades later. what's the saying...get over it"

What's with the "we"?  You weren't in the Civil War.  My guess is that you weren't in any wars.  You're just a pencil-necked little troll who is still trying to get back at the rough boys that used to take your lunch money. 

What a sad sack of sh*t you must be.

I thought that was clear since that's what I said. lol. I wasn't in the civil war but I got a medal in the war on christmas when I was injured on the battlefield at an alabama walmart and have ptsd like a mother. thank me for my service.

Rucker never made it to General, only Colonel.  He wound up being a prominent businessman in Alabama.  Unlike Lee or Jackson he never even served in the US Army.