Fort Benning News

We thank them for their service to our country." The passengers burst into applause.

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A Latin dinner benefit will take place Tuesday at Oasis Dance Club, 1230 Danby Road.

A presentation to local residents with potentially significant national effects occurred recently at the College of St.

El Salvador's president says the country will award its highest honor to six Jesuit priests murdered by the army in 1989.

The Defense Department says a Fort Benning soldier from Colorado Springs has died in Iraq of injuries from a noncombat incident.

El Salvador's president says the country will award its highest honor to six Jesuit priests murdered by the army in 1989.

Photo credit Photos by Cheryl Rodewig Sgt. Lenwood Stewart, a Soldier with the Ranger Training Brigade, talks with retired Lt.

The Georgia Military Affairs Coordinating Committee met with its board of directors Tuesday to discuss what they are calling its "state strategic plan" to deal with closing bases and quality of life issues for Georgia's sizable military community.

The words of the late singer Edwin Starr never said it more direct, "War, what is it good for? Absolutely nothing!" The beautiful diva Freda Payne also chimed into this anti-Vietnam War movement with her song "Bring the Boys Home". Songs, poems, public protests and 500 body bags a week coming home made this ugly conflict intolerable.

Because Chaplain Maj. Pablo Perez-Maisonet's desk is largely uncluttered, one item stands out: a copy of the DVD, "Hotel Rwanda." It describes one aspect of the 1994 Rwandan tribal war between the Hutus and Tutsis, that left as many as 1 million people dead.

Fort Benning's Howl-o-ween party will be held Friday at the post's dog park. From 4:30 to 7 p.m. Benning's canine community will celebrate the spooky holiday with various contests and events.

Managers from Georgia and Alabama cities wrapped up a three-day conference Friday in Columbus with a focus on the 2010 Census.

A federal judge has sentenced Shawana Topekia Pierce, the former Fort Benning civilian employee who pleaded guilty in July of burning down the post's historic Judge Advocate General building, to 7 years in prison.

The Army's Maneuver Center of Excellence is scheduled to open with a ceremony at Fort Benning.

A former Fort Benning civilian employee could be sentenced Wednesday in federal court for burning down the west Georgia post's historic Judge Advocate General's headquarters.

Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey Jr., conducted a re-enlistment ceremony Tuesday afternoon outside the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center at Patriot Park.

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awarded a $31 million contract to a team lead by Lockheed Martin to develop a network protocol to improve the confidentiality, integrity, and security of US military networks.

Columbus Mayor Jim Wetherington kept the most important promise of his 50 years in public service.

The Army is taking steps to reduce its "carbon bootprint" by supplying installations across the country with hybrid-electric vehicles.