Fort Benning

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Fort Benning,

U.S. army post, 189,000 acres (76,500 hectares), W Ga., S of Columbus; est. 1918. One of the largest army posts in the United States, it is the nation's largest infantry training center and the home of the Army Infantry School.

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Second Lieutenant Jenna Schaack recently graduated from the United States Armor School in Ft. Benning, Georgia and in doing so, became the first female Armor Officer in the history of the Montana Army National Guard.

United States : First Female Montana Army National Guard Armor Officer Assigned to Great Falls Unit

After Vietnam Greg was stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia until his duty ended in August 1966.

Gregory Palmerino

Army's Ft. Benning, Georgia, base and the training taking place just outside Columbus.

Turn on, tune in

I commissioned in May 2001 and shipped off to Ft. Benning, Georgia to learn how to be an infantry platoon leader.

The days you never forget

[The Pentagon trains foreign military in "anti-insurgency" tactics at schools such as the US Army's School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia. In a further "anti-insurgency" initiative, at Ft.

Drones and Death: The Israeli Connection

While in training he was notified that he had been accepted to attend Officer Candidate School, and in July he was assigned to Ft. Benning, Georgia.

One Soldier's Story: A Memoir

Follow-Me Golf Course, Ft. Benning, Georgia: co-champ Darlington Oak, 354 pts.

Big tree travel: the inside scoop on who has the most big trees and where to find champs when you might least expect to

Caption: No Mas * Venezuelan Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel (left), in a meeting with religious representatives from the United States, took up the delegation's proposal that Venezuela stop sending soldiers to the School of the Americas (renamed the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) at Ft. Benning, Georgia. During the meeting Rangel called the Venezuelan minister of defense to discuss the feasibility of the request.

No Mas

Before we left for Vietnam, I gathered all my men on the parade ground at Ft. Benning, Georgia, just like in the movie, and I told them that we're going into battle far from home against a tough enemy on his own turf.

The real Hal Moore: Lt. General Harold G. Moore, the real-life protagonist portrayed by Mel Gibson in We Were Soldiers, talks with The New American about the movie, his book, and Vietnam. (Cover Story: Vietnam)

The battalion's commander, General Gustavo Alvarez, was trained at the notorious School of the Americas at Ft. Benning, Georgia. The previous US Ambassador to Honduras, Jack Binns, testified that "Negroponte would have had to be deliberately blind not to know about human rights violations."

Meet the Ambassador

Not only was it hot outside, but apparently the covert operators and assassins trained at the US Army School of the Americas (SOA) in Ft. Benning, Georgia were starting to feel the heat as well.

New Name=Same Shame: The School of the Americas Tries to Hide with a Name Change

During his career, Anderson commanded the 75th Ranger Regiment at Ft. Benning, Georgia, commanded TAC Infantry Co.

United States : 9th Mission Support Command farewells Anderson, welcomes Connelly