This entrance is on Ft. Benning Road. Mike Haskey [email protected] Fort Benning announced details Friday regarding the base’s renaming ceremony after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

Just weeks before World War I ended, the U.S. military established Fort Benning near Columbus. The first soldiers arrived there on Oct. 6, 1918. Later that month, officials held a ceremony for ...

White and Deltenre are based at the Army Center of Excellence at Fort Benning, Georgia. Female soldiers were not allowed to be Army Rangers until 2015, when the Army opened Ranger school to women.

The Army is restoring the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old corporal who fought in World War I rather than a Confederate general.