Fort Benning News

Military cooks at Fort Benning in west Georgia are literally feeding an Army this Thanksgiving.

Staff Sgt. Michael E. Norton of the 75th Ranger Regiment was awarded a Silver Star Tuesday during a ceremony at the Ranger Memorial on Fort Benning.

A federal magistrate has ordered four participants in protests last weekend at Fort Benning to stand trial.

We are sometimes so eager to find the heroes among us, that we may lower our standards to find them.

"Thus it is said that one who knows the enemy and knows himself will not be endangered in a hundred engagements." Sun Tzu, The Art of War.

Fort Benning investigators are launching an investigation into a suspicious note and package found last week on post.

Four people who were arrested during weekend protests at Fort Benning are to appear in federal court in Columbus, the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer reports.

A protest in Georgia has ended with a Syracuse woman under arrest. The Post-Standard reports Nancy Gwin faces up to six months in jail after she and three others walked into Fort Benning to protest against the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation.

The June 28 military coup in Honduras has faded from U.S. mainstream news. Apparently, since there have been no bombs, no call to war for U.S. soldiers, not even a civil war within Honduras, media and U.S. populace alike have lost interest.

A Fort Benning spokesman says Army officials are investigating whether a suspicious note and package found at the west Georgia post is a viable threat.

Thursday was graduation day for the officer candidate school at Fort Benning. There's an OCS graduation every thirteen weeks, so having one Thursday was not unusual, except that Thursday's ceremony was special because of the guest speaker and the exceptional soldier who asked him to come.

Peter Sprenger lost his right eye to shrapnel from an exploding car bomb during his first combat tour in Iraq, but the Army infantryman never let the wound dim his focus on staying in the fight.

For Tigers right-hander Edwin Jackson, a homecoming in Georgia takes on a little bigger meaning.

Six Jesuit priests killed by the army during El Salvador's civil war two decades ago were decorated with the country's highest honor Monday.

The Warrior Training Battalion is celebrating Warrior Care Month with a week's worth of Commander's Cup activities that will culminate in an Open House Friday, Nov.

When the original Camp Benning - located near what is now the Columbus Public Library - was just a month old, the war that in effect created it came to an end.

A local graduate student's stalled thesis has pitted the American Civil Liberties Union against the Bureau of Prisons over the attempted removal of religious material from prison chapel libraries.

Wednesday marked the day when American military veterans are honored for their sacrifices.

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

Join DC activists for the November vigil in Georgia. November 20-22, 2009: Vigil and Nonviolent Direct ActionConverge on Fort Benning, Georgia Join the Mass Mobilization to Close the School of the Americas and to Change U.S. Foreign Policy In less than 2 weeks, thousands will converge on Fort Benning, Georgia to say no to military coups, military ...