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by: Abigail Jones<\/strong><\/p>\n AUSTIN (KXAN) \u2014 An Army post in Killeen, Texas, was renamed again, for the second time in as many years. A ceremony held on Monday marked the official redesignation of the post to Fort Hood.<\/p>\n In May 2023, what was originally Fort Hood \u2014 initially named after Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood \u2014 was renamed Fort Cavazos, in honor of General Richard Edward Cavazos, a native Texan, war hero and Medal of Honor recipient.<\/p>\n The post is now once again Fort Hood, the name now honoring World War I hero, Col. Robert Benjamin Hood. According to the Army, Col. Hood received the Distinguished Service Cross for his \u201cextraordinary heroism\u201d during WWI during an \u201cintense shelling\u201d near Thiaucourt, France.<\/p>\n Army restores the names of seven bases that lost their Confederate-linked names under Biden Hood was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army on Aug. 8, 1917, and served with Echo Battery, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. Hood was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions under fire on Sept. 12, 1918, in France during WWI, according to a press release from the Army.<\/p>\n \u201cDuring a firefight, then-Capt. Hood \u2018displayed extraordinary courage and tactical brilliance as he expertly maneuvered his artillery battery under a barrage of heavy and persistent enemy fire,’\u201d the Army release said, citing the award narrative.<\/p>\n Hood later survived the Pearl Harbor attack while stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and eventually commanded an artillery training unit at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, during World War II.<\/p>\n After 44 years of service, he retired in 1961 as a colonel. Hood died Oct. 12, 1964, and is buried at Arlington National Cemetery, located in Arlington, Virginia, according to the Army.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe colonel\u2019s daughter, Mitzi Huffman, attended the ceremony Monday and said the redesignation in her father\u2019s name is \u201coverwhelming.\u201d
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\nAccording to the Army, Hood was born April 8, 1891, in Wellington, Kansas. He graduated from Kansas State Agricultural College, now Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1914.<\/p>\n