Robeson County contractor wins bid for the redesigning of Fort Bragg signs

Fort Bragg has begun the process of redesigning its signs and a Robeson County-based company is playing a major role in the change.

Southeastern General Contractors has been hired to change the signs on the post to Fort Liberty and the owner Ralphael Locklear says the job means more to his company than just altering the words on a sign.

"We wanted to kind of take charge and tell our own story," said Locklear. "What it meant to us, me being Lumbee and how it affected our people and what it meant."

Locklear's company won the bid to replace Fort Bragg signs.

He says he is very proud of his role in this history-making change.

"Some may be for it; some may be against it, but when you look at the history and see what our people went through during that time," said Locklear. "Then it starts to make a little bit better sense of why the change is needed."

Locklear says his company is replacing nine signs. They're supposed to be completed by June 1, but he says they will be done a few days earlier.

WRAL was told the sign near the entrance to the post at Stryker golf course still says Fort Bragg and it will probably be one of the last to be changed to Fort Liberty.