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Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning) is a United States Army post in the Columbus, Georgia area. Located on Georgia 's border with Alabama , Fort Moore supports more than 120,000 active-duty military, family members, reserve component soldiers, retirees and civilian employees on a daily basis.
Fort Benning South is a former census-designated place [2] (CDP) in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, United States. It is part of the Columbus, Georgia - Alabama metropolitan statistical area . The population was 11,737 at last official census (2000).
The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center is a museum located in Columbus, Georgia, United States, just outside the Maneuver Center of Excellence at Fort Moore (formerly Fort Benning). The 190,000-square-foot (18,000 m 2) museum opened in June 2009.
In late 1918, the U.S. Army established a new camp for the Infantry School of Arms south of Columbus on the Bussey Plantation. The camp was named in honor of Henry Lewis Benning, a Columbus native who served as a Confederate general during the American Civil War and later as a justice of the Georgia Supreme Court. The Army created a rudimentary ...
The former path of SR 1 Spur north of US 27/US 280/SR 1 on Fort Benning Road was redesignated as SR 357. Its path on Cusseta Road and Brown Avenue was redesignated as SR 103 Spur. US 280's path through Columbus was shifted onto SR 1 Spur. A freeway in the eastern part of Columbus was under construction from US 27/US 280/SR 1 southeast of ...
The Army named the base in honor of Henry Benning, a lawyer and senior Confederate officer whom the commission, on the Army’s web site, labeled an “ardent secessionist.”
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC), formerly the School of the Americas, [2] is a United States Department of Defense school located at Fort Moore (formerly known as Fort Benning) in Columbus, Georgia, renamed in the 2001 National Defense Authorization Act.
The new name honors Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his wife, Julia. Moore’s three-decade military career was highlighted by his heroism as commander at the Battle of Ia Drang during the Vietnam War.