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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

FORT BENNING — Cpl. Fred G. Benning’s platoon and company commanders had just been killed during a fierce battle in France toward the end of World War I. And two of his senior noncommissioned ...

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, a massive US Army training base near Columbus, Georgia, was renamed Fort Moore on Thursday to honor the late Lt. Gen. Harold “Hal” Moore and his wife Julia, who both made ...

The Pentagon announced Monday that Fort Moore, formerly named Fort Benning for a Confederate general, will again be named Fort Benning, although it will now honor a different Benning. Defense ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth renamed Fort Moore to Fort Benning, following through on his pledge to restore the original names of military bases, also including Fort Bragg – but not exactly ...

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 ...