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| '''Fort Benning''' is a ] base, located southwest of ] in ] and ] counties in ] and ]. It is part of the ] ]. | |||
| Fort Benning is a self-sustaining military community supporting in excess of 100,000 military, family members, reserve component soldiers, retirees, and civilian employees on a daily basis. It is a power projection platform, and possesses the capability to deploy combat-ready forces by air, rail, and highway. Fort Benning is the home of the ]; the ]; the headquarters of the ] along with the ]; the 3rd Brigade, ] (Mechanized); the ]; and a myriad of additional tenant units. | |||
| == History == | |||
| Fort Benning is named for ] ], a ] army ] and a native of Columbus, Georgia. It was established in October 1918 as Camp Benning, and did not receive permanent quarters and status until ]. The base covers 182,000 acres (737 km²). During World War II, Fort Benning included 197,159 acres (797.87 km²), and had ]ing space for 3,970 officers and 94,873 ] persons. The ] runs through Fort Benning, which straddles the Georgia/Alabama state line. | |||
| During ] (WWII) Fort Benning became home to the ], known as the ]. Their training began in December 1943. This represented an important milestone for black Americans. The battalion, later expanded to become the ], was trained at Fort Benning but did not deploy overseas. The specialized duties of the Triple Nickel were primarily firefighting duties as parachute smoke jumpers. The 555th was secretly deployed to the Pacific Northwest in the United States in response to an anticipated threat. There was concern that forest fires were being deliberately set by the Japanese military using incendiary balloons as an attempt to produce terror among the citizens. The 555th successfully completed over 1,000 missions as smoke jumpers and thwarted the enemy's attempts to spread terror within the United States. | |||
| Fort Benning's first mission was to provide ] for units participating in World War I. With the end of that war, Benning was closed until the Army could find another use. The first Tenant Unit to arrive was the Infantry School, which is still open. The ] completed the wooden permanent buildings in the 1930s, and Fort Benning expanded from that point forward. | |||
| Fort Benning is where the ] was formed. | |||
| The ] on Main Post has three 249-foot (76 m) drop towers called "Control Descent Towers". They are used to train ]. The towers were modeled after the parachute towers at the 1939 World's Fair in New York. Only three towers stand today; the fourth tower was toppled by a tornado on March 14th, 1954. | |||
| In the ], located in Fort Benning were trained many international military officers, some of which were responsible for crimes and murders, like ] (U.S.-supported dictator in ] between 1983 to 1989), ] (responsible of massacres in ], like ]'s massacre in 1989). Graduates of the SOA include also men such as ], ], , ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ].<ref>{{cite web | author = School of the Americas Watch | title = Notorious Graduates | url = http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=205&cat=63 | accessmonthday = May 6 | accessyear = 2006 }}</ref> <ref>{{cite web | author = the ], ] | title = List of Military Officers in the Guatemalan Army |url = http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB32/Oficiales.RTF}}</ref> Because many of its students have been associated with ]s, and coups in Latin American countries, the school's acronym is reparsed by its detractors as the "School of the ]s". | |||
| The ], first of four divisions committed by the United States to the ], reorganized and completed its basic training at ] (Sand Hill and ] areas} from October 1950 to May 1951, when it deployed to ] for five years. | |||
| == Mission == | |||
| The post is home to the ] as well as the Army's ] (]) school. Fort Benning is the primary training installation for all U.S. Army infantry enlistees (11X). Enlisted infantry soldiers undergo their Basic Combat Training, and Advanced Individual Training in a combined fourteen week course called One Station Unit Training (OSUT). The 198th Infantry Brigade, formerly the Infantry Training Brigade (ITB), has the mission of transforming civilians into disciplined infantrymen (11B)and indirect-fire infantrymen (11C)that possess the Army Values, fundamental soldier skills, physical fitness, character, confidence, commitment, and the Warrior Ethos to become adaptive and flexible infantrymen ready to accomplish the mission of the Infantry. The 192d Infantry Brigade also conducts Army Basic Combat Training for non-combat arms enlisted soldiers, who go on to their occupational schools (AIT) following graduation from BCT. The 192d Infantry Brigade consists of two Basic Combat Training battalions, one Infantry One Station Unit Training (OSUT) Battalion and the 30th Adjutant General Battalion (Reception). | |||
| == Post organization == | |||
| ] | |||
| There are four main ] areas on Fort Benning. They are the '''Main Post''' area, '''Kelley Hill''', '''Sand Hill''' and '''Harmony Church'''. | |||
| '''Main Post''' houses various garrison and smaller ] units of Fort Benning such as 36th Engineer Group, 988th ] Company, the 43rd Engineer Battalion, and the 29th Infantry Regiment, as well as a number of ]-related tenants, e.g. the ], the Non-Commissioned Officers Academy, conducting courses such as the Warriors Leader Course (formerly known as ]), the Basic Officer Leader's Course II, and the ]. Adjacent to Infantry Hall (the post headquarters building), is the ], an outdoors monument to all Rangers, present and past. | |||
| '''Kelley Hill''' houses the ] of the ] ]. | |||
| Ft Benning is famous for being one of the most challenging posts in the United States Army. | |||
| Part of this reputation comes from the conditions present on Kelley Hill. The 3rd Infantry Division has always been noteworthy for its discipline. | |||
| ] houses the 3rd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division also known as the ''sledgehammer'' brigade because of the sledgehammers used to keep this mechanized division and the tracks on its armor and artillery rolling. The Peter Gabriel song "]" is played over the speakers in the morning after physical training. | |||
| '''Sand Hill''' is the primary location of the Infantry Training Brigade (198th Infantry Brigade) and the Basic Combat Training Brigade (192nd Infantry brigade). Sand Hill is also the location of the 30th AG Reception Battalion at Fort Benning. | |||
| '''Harmony Church''' area houses the 2/29 Infantry Regiment Sniper School, the 1/29th Infantry Regiment (training support for Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Strykers), and the Ft. Benning phase of ]. Victory Pond, where the amphibious training for the Bradleys take place, is in Harmony Church. Also in this area, about 1 mile (2 km) from Red Diamond Road, is a ] era cemetery in a large meadow. The graveyard is marked in the C C 2 area on the Fort Benning tactical military map as CEMETERY 2. | |||
| '''Fryar Drop Zone''', the drop zone that airborne students land on, is located in the Alabama portion of Fort Benning. | |||
| Fort Benning is also home to: | |||
| * The ] (WHINSEC), formerly known as ] | |||
| * The US Army ] School | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] | |||
| * ] Headquarters | |||
| * ] | |||
| * The Infantry Basic Officer Leader Course IBOLC III (Formerly IOBC) | |||
| * Basic Officer Leader's Course II | |||
| == Additional Information == | |||
| As of August 2005, Major General ] is the current post commander. He also serves as the Chief of Infantry, considered the senior Infantryman in the U.S. Army. | |||
| Fort Benning was selected by the most recent round of the ] (BRAC), to house the new ]. This realignment will merge the ], currently located at ], ] with the Infantry Center. | |||
| Post Commanders have included General ], General ], General ], and General ], for whom the Bradley Fighting Vehicle was named. | |||
| The post commanders quarters is known through out the Army as "Riverside" due to its proximity to the ] | |||
| == Fort Benning in popular culture == | |||
| === Movies === | |||
| * The movie '']'' was a short documentary filmed at Fort Benning in 1941. | |||
| * The movie '']'' starring ], ], and ] was also filmed on Fort Benning just prior to WWII in 1941. | |||
| * The movie '']'' starring ] was filmed at Fort Benning in 1967 and in downtown Columbus, Ga. The film featured location shots including an attack on the simulated special forces A camp and a helicopter assault on a bridge crossing the river. The house where the SF team kidnapped the NVA general was located in downtown Columbus, Georgia. The movie theater on Sand Hill area of Fort Benning is in the background on one of the helicopter landing scenes in the beginning of the movie. After they arrive in Vietnam, you can see a large aircraft hangar; this is also visible in the movie "We Were Soldiers." | |||
| * The movie '']'' starring ] and ] was filmed at Airborne School and on Harmony Church, Fort Benning in 1951. | |||
| * The movie '']'' starring ], ], ], and ] was filmed at Fort Benning in 1984. A neon sign reading ''END OF THE HALL'' is visible inside a bar as this was filmed inside the former Noncommissioned Officer Club on Sand Hill. The 2/10th field artillery did 10 hours of PT on Kelly Hill. The back gate to Kelly Hill was shown as the main gate in the movie. The town in which James Garner destroys the local jail is located on Lumpkin Road. The housing area they all lived in is called Upatoi Creek housing area. It is on Custer Road next to the National Cemetery. | |||
| * The movie '']'' starring ] was filmed at Fort Benning in 1985 | |||
| * The movie '']'' starring ] was filmed at Fort Benning in 1988, most of the film was shot at Airborne School and feature the original barracks which housed the 555 P.I.R., they have since been demolished and replaced with a parking lot. | |||
| * In the movie "], ]'s character is questioned by his nephew at which US Army fort he lost his vision. "]?" questions the nephew. "No, Fort Benning," replies Pacino's character, Lt. Col. Frank Slade. | |||
| * The movie '']'' starring ] was filmed here during the summer of 2000. | |||
| * The movie '']'' starring ], ], and ] was filmed at Fort Benning in 2000. Some notable scenes include the 249' Control Decent Towers on Eubanks Field and the Officer housing area along South Lumpkin Road. Doughboy Stadium is where they talk to all of the families. The same aircraft hangar used in The Green Berets is also used in this film. Infantry Hall is featured in the last scene and is disguised as an airport. | |||
| === TV series === | |||
| * During Season Two of ] a Colonel Ron Samuels headed a Special Ops team tracking a bomb. This team was said to be based at Fort Benning. ] was also said to have been approached by Samuels whilst being in the military. | |||
| *In the Pilot Episode of M*A*S*H, it is revealed that Maj. Houlihan first met Gen. Hammond at Fort Benning. It is also shown in a flashback that they had a "physical" relationship. | |||
| === Books === | |||
| * In one of ]'s books in the ''Brotherhood of War'' series a chewing out at the Airborne School was described as a high school drop-out screaming into your face that "He didn't know what kinda chicken-s*** outfit you came here from, but you better get your act together real quick, or I'll ship you outta here so fast your asshole won't catch up with you for 2 weeks!" | |||
| * A few characters in ]'s bestselling novel '']'' were trained/stationed in Fort Benning. | |||
| * In his book "That Others May Live", pararescueman Jack Brehm recounts his intense training at Fort Benning that he went through in order to become a PJ. | |||
| * This is also in a book called Apocalypse Dawn by ]. | |||
| === Video Games === | |||
| * Part of ], which was designed and distributed by the United States Army, takes place at Fort Benning. | |||
| === Legend === | |||
| A story circulates in the Fort Benning area that ], a town across the Chattahoochee River, once had some Fort Benning troops in jail and wouldn't give them back. The story goes that the (unnamed) Commanding General assembled 8000 troops at the bridge and threatened to send them in to rescue the men if they weren't released. An alternate version told was that the General pulled several ] up on the banks of the river and threatened to open fire. The version with tanks often is cited as having been General ] when he was at Fort Benning. However, a military historian has stated that the story was partially true in the sense that a general once threatened to roll tanks into Phenix City but that the general in question was not Patton. | |||
| == General Information == | |||
| === Command Group === | |||
| *Commanding General/Commandant: ] ] | |||
| *Deputy Commandant: ] ] | |||
| *Command Sergeant Major: ] ] | |||
| === Units Present at Fort Benning === | |||
| Unit, Command | |||
| *U.S. Army Garrison, Installation Management Agency (IMA) | |||
| *], ] (Reflagged from Basic Combat Training Brigade (BCTB)) | |||
| **2nd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment | |||
| **3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry Regiment | |||
| **2nd Battalion, 54th Infantry Regiment | |||
| **30th AG Reception Battalion, ] | |||
| *197th Infantry Brigade, ] (Reflagged from 29th Infantry Regiment) | |||
| **1st Battalion (Mechanized / ]), ] | |||
| **2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment | |||
| **CONUS Replacement Center | |||
| *], ] (Reflagged from Infantry Training Brigade (ITB)) | |||
| **1st Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment | |||
| **2nd Battalion, 19th Infantry Regiment | |||
| **1st Battalion, 50th Infantry Regiment | |||
| **2nd Battalion, 58th Infantry Regiment | |||
| **3rd Battalion, 330th Infantry Regiment | |||
| *], ] (Reflagged from 11th Infantry Regiment) | |||
| **HHC, 199th Bde (MCCC Detachment & International Student Training Detachment) | |||
| **1st Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment (Basic Officer Leadership Course II) | |||
| **2nd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment (Infantry Basic Officer Leadership Course (IBOLC)) | |||
| **3rd Battalion, 11th Infantry Regiment (Officer Candidate School) | |||
| **1st Battalion, 507th Parachute Infantry Regiment (Airborne School) | |||
| *], ] | |||
| **4th Ranger Training Battalion, ] | |||
| *], ] | |||
| ** Maneuver Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course (MANCOC) | |||
| ** Basic Noncommissioned Officer Course (Infantry) (BNCOC) | |||
| ** Warrior Leader Course (WLC) | |||
| ** Drill Sergeant School (DSS) | |||
| *3rd Brigade, ] (HBCT) | |||
| **1st Battalion, ] | |||
| **2nd Battalion, 69th Armor | |||
| **3rd Squadron, ] | |||
| **1st Battalion, 10th Field Artillery | |||
| **203rd ] | |||
| **3-3 ] | |||
| *13th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion ] | |||
| *14th Combat Support Hospital, ] | |||
| *283d Army Band | |||
| *], TRADOC | |||
| *], ] | |||
| **3rd Ranger Battalion (3-75 RGR) | |||
| **Regimental Special Troops Battalion (RSTB) | |||
| *Martin Army Community Hospital, ] | |||
| *DENTAC, USA ] | |||
| *US.Army Marksmanship Unit, USAAC, http://www.usaac.army.mil/amu/ | |||
| *17th Air Support Operations Squadron, ] | |||
| == See also == | |||
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