(Brynn Anderson/AP) FORT BENNING — The Army officially 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 ...

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.

She and her husband are buried at Fort Benning. Fred Benning was born in Norfolk, Nebraska, in 1900. At 17, he enlisted with the U.S. Army and served in the First Infantry Division during WWI.

FORT BENNING, Ga. — U.S. Army Soldiers, veterans, military and civic leaders, community members, and the whole Benning family gathered for the ceremonial redesignation of Fort Moore to Fort ...

After graduation, he was stationed at Fort Benning, entertaining an appeal ... Texas — you went TDY to an army hospital for 8 weeks,” he said. After all that training, Downing was promoted ...