There are new developments in the process for renaming Army installations, including Fort Benning. The Naming Commission submitted part one of their three part final report to congress this week.
The military has to meet a certain recruitment goal to maintain its reach around the globe but so far, this year’s rate is the lowest since troops returned home from Vietnam in 1973.
He’s been part of the Army since he was 17 years old, but when 23-year-old Army Sgt. Nathan Harmon is not leasing soldiers, he runs long-distance races - sometimes more than 100 miles.
A veteran who lives 30 minutes west of Auburn is doing what he can to help a fellow soldier in Ukraine, and now this man’s assistance is now being recognized by the Ukrainian government.
After not being able to host the event for a few years because of the coronavirus pandemic, the annual tradition event Freedom Fest is back at the National Infantry Museum in the Columbus Fort Benning area. It will be on Monday, the 4th of July.
A new state veterans home is coming to Alabama, with construction just beginning on the much-anticipated project that has connections to a hero in Opelika.
The last time some of these prisoners-of-war saw each other was inside an 8x8 prison cell in the Vietnam War, and they got a “welcome home” in a nearby state.
Before COVID, people or teams ran or bicycled from Savannah to Columbus for a full decade, helping veterans in the Chattahoochee Valley in the process.
In less than two months, Fort Benning will have a new commanding general, and we now know who that will be and what the current man in charge will do next.
Some call it a 3-day “suffer fest.” The Best Ranger competition wrapped up last week on Fort Benning and now we’re taking you inside the action of this famous event.
As the Best Ranger competition gets started on Fort Benning, a winner from 25 years ago is prepping for one of the toughest adventure races in the world, all to help today’s Army rangers.
On March 29th, 1973, the last U.S. combat troops departed the Republic of Vietnam after a long, bloody war. Almost five decades later, the Columbus Fort Benning community honored those who fought and died there.
In an uncertain world, Fort Benning is providing a forum for U.S. Army leaders to discuss the best technology and how to best train soldiers for potential war or anything else.
While some southeastern states are considered appealing places for former soldiers, the number of military retirees younger than 65 in South Carolina is declining.
For the first time in history, the U.S. Army is offering a $50,000 signing bonus to anyone who enlists for 6 years, that move getting a thumbs of from recruiters in Georgia and nationwide.
By The Associated Press and SAYED ZIARMAL HASHEMI, LOLITA C. BALDOR and JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press
A U.S. official said the complex attack was believed to have been carried out by the Islamic State group. The IS affiliate in Afghanistan is far more radical than the Taliban, who recently took control of the country in a lightning blitz and condemned the attack.
Gray Television's Greta Van Susteren dedicated the latest episode of her weekly Sunday news show, Full Court Press, to the upcoming end of this war that’s claimed nearly 2500 American lives.
