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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.
The Army created a rudimentary landing field at Benning in 1919 with the initial mission of determining if data obtained by balloon observation would benefit the infantry. The airfield consisted of two small hangars that housed the balloon unit. In 1922, the Army made the facility a permanent Army post renaming the camp Fort Benning.
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Retired Col. David M. Moore, the son of Lt. Gen. Hal and Julia Moore, speaks Thursday morning during a ceremony at Doughboy Stadium where Fort Benning was redesignated as Fort Moore. 05/11/2023
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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.
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Fort Benning South is located at (32.359866, -84.934566 [ 3 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 8.7 square miles (23 km 2 ), of which 8.6 square miles (22 km 2 ) is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km 2 ) (1.49%) is water.