Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hal and Julia Moore at Hal's retirement in 1977. The son of Lt. Gen. Harold G. “Hal” Moore and Julia Moore, influential Army ...

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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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — There is a move in place that would change the name of Fort Benning back to Fort Moore. The proposal is part of the defense spending bill currently before Congress. This week, ...

Just weeks before World War I ended, the U.S. military established Fort Benning near Columbus. The first soldiers arrived there on Oct. 6, 1918. Later that month, officials held a ceremony for naming ...

The stone gate entrance sign that welcomed people to Fort Moore is covered with tarps March 5, 2025, now that the U.S. Army post next to Columbus has been renamed back to Fort Benning. This entrance ...

FORT BENNING — Cpl. Fred G. Benning’s platoon and company commanders had just been killed during a fierce battle in France toward the end of World War I. And two of his senior noncommissioned officers ...

Legislators may swiftly reverse a decision made by U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth regarding Fort Benning's name. Buried in a 688-page defense bill the U.S. House of Representatives passed this ...

ATLANTA — Fort Benning could once again become Fort Moore. Yes, you read that correctly. Earlier this year, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth signed a memorandum ordering the renaming of Fort Moore to ...

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 ...