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Soldiers conduct Stryker live-fire training at Fort Benning

Soldiers with the 316th Cavalry Brigade conduct a Stryker Master Gunner Course live-fire exercise Oct. 1, 2025, at Ruth Range ...
United States Army

Kall River Range repairs to enhance combat driving readiness

The Directorate of Public Works (DPW) at Fort Benning is scheduled to begin repair work on Kall River Driving Range this year ...
FOX 5 Atlanta

Thousands of Fort Benning soldiers traveling home for holidays

More than 7,000 Fort Benning trainees traveling home for holidays Soldiers departing through Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Annual Holiday Block Leave pauses training until January ATLANTA - Thousands of ...
Task & Purpose

Army wants to overhaul dining at basic training

Starting this month, the Army has begun closing some dining facilities at major bases to begin renovations that will overhaul and privatize how soldiers eat on base. But according to documents posted ...
Stars and Stripes

‘A little taste of home’: Fort Benning leaders serve up Thanksgiving meal to basic trainees

FORT BENNING, Ga. — It came as a surprise for Army Pfc. Jesse Knight to find his hard-nosed drill sergeants behind serving stations Wednesday afternoon at Fort Benning’s Kouma dining facility, piling ...
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U.S. Army Boot Camp • Fort Benning Georgia

U.S. Army basic training (Initial Entry Training) at Fort Benning, Georgia is divided into 2 parts: Basic Combat Training (BCT) and Advanced Individual Training (AIT). BCT lasts for 10 weeks and is ...
WSB-TV

What’s in a name? If this bill passes, Fort Benning would be renamed Fort Moore – again

ATLANTA — Fort Benning could once again become Fort Moore. Yes, you read that correctly. Earlier this year, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum ordering the renaming of Fort Moore to ...
Military.com

Soldier Dies on Fort Leonard Wood Rifle Range

An 18-year-old from California has been identified as the Army National Guardsman who died Friday on a rifle range at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Pvt. Andrey Okunev, 18, assigned to Company B, 1st ...
WTVM

Secretary of Defense Hegseth addresses new Army officers at Ft. Benning

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth visited Fort Benning Thursday as one group became new Army officers. Hegseth spent a full day on base, from speaking at the ...
Fox News

Hegseth vows to rebuild military deterrence so enemies 'don't want to f--- with us'

COLUMBUS, Ga. — During a trip to Fort Benning on Thursday, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the department is working on reestablishing deterrence "so that when the enemy sees an American, they don ...
Ledger-Enquirer

Pete Hegseth emphasizes Fort Benning name, but gives nod to Hal Moore in speech at base

U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth emphasized the name of Fort Benning but showed appreciation for its former namesake while speaking to the newest graduates of the Army base’s Officer Candidate ...
Army Times

At Army base, accountability tools may be reducing heat injuries

Soldiers complete an obstacle course on Sand Hill at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 2022. From 2020 to 2024, the base saw the highest number of heat injury cases of any military installation. (Markeith ...