FORT BENNING (AP) — The Army has restored the name Fort Benning to its storied training post in Georgia, only this time to honor an 18-year-old corporal who fought in World War I rather than a ...

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum March 3, 2025, directing Fort Moore, Georgia, to be renamed Fort Benning. The installation will now be renamed in honor of Army Cpl.

FORT BENNING, Ga. — Fred Benning was a humble, small-town man who rarely spoke of his exploits as a teenage soldier in Europe, where he earned the Army’s second highest honor for battlefield heroism ...

For more than a century, Fort Benning’s name honored a Confederate general who supported slavery. The military changed the name of the Army base in Georgia two years ago, but now the Trump ...

Dana Klabenes, the city clerk in Neligh, Nebreska, holds her hand under a photo of former Mayor Fred Benning, a WWI veteran who is being honored by having an Army base in Georgia renamed Fort Benning ...