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The crew of a 37 mm gun M3 anti-tank gun, in training at Fort Benning, Georgia, April 1942. During World War II Fort Benning had 197,159 acres (79,787 ha) with billeting space for 3,970 officers and 94,873 enlisted persons. Among many other units, Fort Benning was the home of the 555th Parachute Infantry Company, whose training began in ...
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).
Chattahoochee County, also known as Cusseta-Chattahoochee County, [1] is a county located on the western border in central Georgia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 9,565. [ 2 ] The county seat is Cusseta , [ 3 ] with which the county shares a consolidated city-county government.
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.
U.S. Highway 27 (US 27) is a 356.088-mile-long (573.068 km) United States Numbered Highway in the U.S. state of Georgia.It travels south-to-north through the western part of the state near the Alabama state line.
For the new Reorganization Objective Army Division (ROAD) brigade at Fort Benning, Georgia, the adjutant general on 1 August 1962 restored elements of the 99th Reconnaissance Troop, which thirty years earlier had been organized by consolidating infantry brigade headquarters and headquarters companies of the 99th Infantry Division, as Headquarters and Headquarters Companies, 197th and 198th ...
Fort Benning was redesignated as Fort Moore during the ceremony. 05/11/2023. Fort Benning was redesignated as Fort Moore during a ceremony Thursday morning at Doughboy Stadium. 05/11/2023.
The National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center is a museum located in Columbus, Georgia, 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.