Fort Benning News

From the road, it looks like the American Dream. A million dollar home on five acres in southern Harris County.

The Harris County Sheriff's Office is investigating what appears to be a murder-suicide after the bodies of Christopher and Andrea Holcombe were discovered by their teenager late Wednesday morning in their mansion at 131 Old Gate Road.

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, a retired four-star general who rose through the ranks of Indonesia's dictatorship and can also croon romantic ballads, looked set to win a second five-year term in presidential elections Wednesday.

With the Fourth of July celebration still fresh in our minds, here's something we can do to help other people become free.

As the situation regarding the military ouster of Honduras' President Manuel Zelaya continues to develop, I Metroed across town to the U.S. State Department to photograph a protest calling for cutting off U.S. aid to Honduras until Zelaya's reinstatement.

Before the torture debates about Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib, there was the School of Americas -- a U.S. military training school in Fort Benning, Georgia, which has trained some of the worst human rights abusers in Latin America.

Men at work Lockheed Martin received a task order to manage the Field Logistics Readiness Center at Fort Bragg , NC.

Go forward and answer the call. That is the number one job of a soldier and the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are stretching our nations army thin.

Police say the incident happened in the parking lot at the Waffle House off of Veterans Parkway.

Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S. >> Posted By dissent 4 hours, 33 minutes ago in News Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S. At least two leaders of the coup launched in Honduras today were apparently trained at a controversial Department of Defense school based at Fort Benning, Georgia infamous for producing ...

Staff Sgt. Michael Johnston from Fort Benning, Ga., won the active-duty 2009 Drill Sergeant of the Year title June 26, 2009.

The Army says about 90 soldiers from the 63rd Engineer Company are scheduled to return to Fort Benning from a 15-month deployment to Iraq early Monday.

Heat injuries are so common among soldiers drilling on Fort Benning during the summer months that basic trainees are required to practice twice a day on how to quickly and effectively respond to life-threatening conditions.

After a week-long competition, the Army Training and doctrine Command named its 2009 Drill Sergeants of the Year.

On Monday, May 18, QUEENSRA CHE rocked the troops at Fort Benning, Georgia in between tour dates in support of their new Rhino Records CD, "American Soldier" . The post welcomed QUEENSRA CHE with "open arms" as they gave all band members and their crew an exhilarating ride in an M1A1 Abrams tank and an M2 Bradley tank.

A Fort Bliss infantryman wounded in combat on a previous tour died Tuesday when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Iraq, Army officials said Friday.

Independence Day is two weeks away but you can celebrate early with Fort Benning.

Two former Columbus police officers and a Fort Benning soldier pleaded not guilty to felony charges in two unrelated cases in federal court Friday.

It was a sight that so overwhelmed Alma Powell, wife of former Secretary of State and retired Gen.

Maj. Gen. Michael D. Barbero, commander of the U.S. Army Infantry Center and Fort Benning, will soon get his third star, according to a post press release.