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Encyclopedia > Fort Benning, Georgia

Fort Benning is a base facility of the United States military outside Columbus, Georgia. The base has a large basic training facility for infantry, and is home to the Infantry Training Brigade of the United States Army as well being the Army's foremost airborne (parachuting) training center. Fort Benning is also home to the United States Army Ranger School, one of the army's elite forces. The base is also the location of the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly known as School of the Americas. Fort Benning is also home to the US Army's Ranger, Pathfinder, and sniper training schools.


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New Georgia Encyclopedia: Fort Benning (1055 words)
Fort Benning, home of the U.S. Army Infantry, is adjacent to the city of Columbus in southwest Georgia.
Throughout the 1920s Fort Benning struggled for appropriations and attention from Congress and army policymakers, but by the mid-1930s the post was booming with construction because of the federal works projects initiated during the Great Depression.
In 1963 the Eleventh Air Assault Division was formed at Fort Benning to test the concept of "air assault." Those tests resulted in the creation of the airmobile concept adopted by the First Cavalry Division during the Vietnam conflict.
Fort Benning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (343 words)
Fort Benning is a military base facility of the United States military southwest of Columbus, Georgia.
Because of all of the essential programs it is home to, Fort Benning is considered extremely unlikely to be hit with a base closing, unlike many of Georgia's other military facilities which are at risk.
Fort Benning was made famous as the main set of the game America's Army.
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