Fort Benning, Georgia

Fort Benning
eponym: BG Henry L. Benning, CSA, of Columbus GA
Part of Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) Forces Command (FORSCOM) Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) Columbus, Georgia, Metropolitan Statistical Area
Chattahoochee County, Georgia (93%) & Russell County, Alabama (7%) ≈182,000 acres (737 km²) The Chattahoochee River runs through Fort Benning.
Maneuver Center of Excellence
Type	Army post
Site information
Controlled by	United States Army
Website	Official Website
Site history
Built	1918; 99 years ago (1918)
In use	1918–present
Garrison information
Garrison	Units and tenant units 198th Infantry Brigade 199th Infantry Brigade 194th Armored Brigade 316th Cavalry Brigade Airborne and Ranger Training Brigade Henry Caro Noncommissioned Officer Academy 14th Combat Support Hospital, 44th Medical Brigade Task Force 1-28, 48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team 75th Ranger Regiment Army Marksmanship Unit 17th Air Support Operations Squadron, USAF Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC) United States Army Armor School United States Army Infantry School Martin Army Community Hospital

Units and tenant units

Fort Benning is a United States Army base straddling the Alabama-Georgia border next to Columbus, Georgia. Fort Benning supports more than 120,000 active-duty 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 United States Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, the United States Army Armor School, United States Army Infantry School, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (formerly known as the School of the Americas), elements of the 75th Ranger Regiment (United States), 3rd Brigade – 3rd Infantry Division, and many other additional tenant units.

It is named after Henry L. Benning, a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War.

Since 1918, Fort Benning has served as the Home of the Infantry. Since 2005, Fort Benning has been transformed into the Maneuver Center of Excellence, as a result of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission's decision to consolidate a number of schools and installations to create various "centers of excellence." Included in this transformation was the move of the Armor School from Fort Knox to Fort Benning.