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.

(WTVM) - After traditional graduations have been shut down on Fort Benning for more than a year, Friday was a first of sorts. News Leader 9 was there for the first airborne graduation with an in ...

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, Ga. -- Fort Benning, birthplace of the Army's Airborne, will observe National Airborne Day Aug. 16 with a series of parachute jumps, followed by a graduation ceremony of the nation's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...