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Fort Benning: Installation
Installation Overview
Fort Benning was established is 1918 and is named for Major General Henry L. Benning. Known as the "Home of the Infantry," the installation spreads over 182,000 acres and is home to the U.S. Army Infantry Training Brigade, U.S. Infantry School, Ranger Training Brigade, Airborne School,and School of the Americas. From 1918 until present the development of Fort Benning has been proportional to the schools progress. Through out the years, the mission of Benning and the Infantry School has remained fundamentally the same. "To produce the world's finest combat Infantrymen". Although Benning is a Training and Doctrine command installation, units of Forces Command make up 50 percent of permanent party personnel on post. They are the 3rd Brigade, 3d Infantry Division , and the 36th Engineer Group. The 3d Ranger Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, and its Regimental Headquarters are also located at Benning. Fort Benning is south of Columbus, Georgia on U.S. highway 27. It has an active duty population of 34,834 which includes both reserve components. The Fort Benning military community can also be reached on Interstate 85 south, to Interstate 185 south, this route will lead you directly into the installation. You may then travel (right) on 1st Division Rd. to Dixie Rd. You will then find the Installation Welcome Center (Bldg 2622), Map To Soldiers' Plaza
A 1997 study by Georgia Southwestern listed the cost of living in Columbus as the second highest in Georgia, behind Atlanta.
Since 1988, 24,084 new jobs have been created in Columbus and capital investment has exceeded $1.16 billion.
In 1971, residents voted to combine Columbus City and Muscogee County governments; today, the consolidated government is still one of only 30 consolidated city-county governments in the country.
The area calls itself the "Tri-City" of Fort Benning, Columbus, and Phenix City, Ala.
Home of "Ma" Rainey, named "Mother of the Blues," and civil rights activists Primus King and Thomas H. Brewer.
During World War II, Gen. George Patton arranged for his soldiers to be paid with $2 bills to make sure people in Columbus and Phenix City realized how much of the money they made came from his soldiers.
Columbus was home of the softball competition in the 1996 Olympic Games.
Fort Benning is known as the Home of the Infantry. Since 1918, it has been home to the Army's training programs for infantry tactics. Fort Bragg was originally supposed to get the Infantry School, but ended up with artillery instead.
In 1963, the 11th Air Assault Division was formed at Fort Benning to test battlefield uses of helicopters. The tests led to the airmobile concept of the 1st Cavalry Division.
Fort Benning is the home of parachute training. The paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division learned their trade there.
The School of the Americas has been under fire from Congress in recent years for alleged human rights abuses by its graduates. Last year, the U.S. House came within seven votes of cutting off its funding. Name changed to Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Coop.
