Fort Benning’s Basic Airborne Course on Friday held its first public graduation ceremony since public activities were shut down military-wide last March as the pandemic spread around the globe.

The Maneuver Center of Excellence and the Fort Benning community celebrated National Airborne Day with a graduation ceremony for the nation’s newest paratroopers August 19 at Fryar Field Drop Zone.

Fort Benning college students were scheduled to graduate last year, but their graduation was put on hold due to COVID-19. A year later those same students were finally able to have somewhat of a ...

They banned large gatherings, halted graduation ceremonies, closed the post to most visits, ordered the Fort Benning community to limit travel to official business and "essential" errands like ...

Fort Benning is the second U.S. military base to ... Tim Walz of Minnesota assailed Donald Trump in a law school graduation speech Saturday, accusing the Republican president of creating a ...

FORT BENNING, Ga. (WTVM) - West Georgia’s army installation’s name switching back to Fort Benning created a lot of buzz all across Georgia. We talked to several state leaders on Tuesday about ...

Decades before Hal Moore had standing as a remarkable Army commander, in war and peace, he stood against racial prejudice. At age 23, the native Kentuckian graduating in 1945 from West Point stood ...

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 ...

Sue Conger-Williams, right, Fred Benning's granddaughter, unveils a new sign at Fort Benning during a ceremony honoring its new namesake Wednesday. (Brynn Anderson/AP) FORT BENNING — The Army ...

Fort Benning college students were scheduled to graduate last year, but their graduation was put on hold due to COVID-19. A year later those same students were finally able to have somewhat of a ...

FORT BENNING (AP) — The Army has restored 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 ...