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[edit] Requested move

Fort Benning, Georgia → Fort Benning — It's not a municipality, its a military base, therefore it is not apropos to have the state attached. It used to be that way, but somehow it got moved to Fort Benning, Texas (which needs to be deleted entirely because there is no such place).   –radiojon 05:52, 2005 Apr 11 (UTC)

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[edit] Discussion

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Can someone explain the argument a bit more, because at the moment it seems to be split between the two methods of naming See List of United States military bases#Forts and Category:Bases of the U.S. Army. For example are those places listed with state because they are disambiguation page like the two Fort Braggs --Philip Baird Shearer 17:52, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Seeing no opposition, I've performed this move. - UtherSRG 11:53, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Located in *3* counties

Somebody changed my edit that mentioned Ft. Benning taking up three counties, one in Alabama and two in Georgia.

They are Muscogee, Chattahoochee, and Russell County.

[edit] Phenix City incident

The story erroneously mentioned in the article states that the story about Phenix City started in the 1980s. The first time I heard that story was in the 1960s. The most commonly heard version is that it occured in 1941 and George Patton was the general involved. I personally talked to a military historian at Fort Benning in the 1980s, and he said that the incident was partially true. The general involved was the one who took Patton's place after Patton left. However, the "march" never took place and over the years Patton became the general who made the threats in the local folklore.

With all this said, I hesitated to change the article as I don't have a specific book or website to cite.

[edit] Change

Since my discussion engendered no thoughts, I have changed the article in reference to Phenix City.

[edit] Good job on the Phenix City incedent

I haven't been here in a while.Your input is good,as it is factual,and puts in info that I didn't know about.Thanks for your input.Saltforkgunman 18:14, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

I have reverted the article to include the Phenix City incident.The story was first told to me during inprocessing on Main Post in 1986.See above comment about talking to a military historian at Benning.

[edit] Link suppressed

The following is invalid [1] Dilane 01:07, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fort Benning editing Fort Benning

According to Wired's article about Wikiscanner, somebody from the Fort Benning made this small change to this article. Quite old, but nobody found it legitimate to revert it. I will. Tazmaniacs 20:59, 20 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed dialog from movie

I removed the funny dialog from a movie because it was too rich for an encyclopedia. The movie locations were enjoyable to reminisce. Timhowardriley 02:54, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Victory pond

I was in the ribbon bridge company that provided safety boats for the Bradley amphibious training at Victoria Pond in 1986-1987 and I am telling you that the name of the pond is not 'victory'.The military, tactical map of Ft Benning reads 'Victoria Pond'.The reason we all erroneously called it victory pond is most likely due to the name of the main thoroughfare coming out of Benning into Columbus,Victory Drive.Just a small point, but the article needs to be accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Saltforkgunman (talk • contribs) 04:59, 15 October 2007 (UTC)


I'm at Ft. Benning now. The name on my range control map as well as in numerous articles, and signs on base is VICTORY pond.

For example.. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranger_School and https://www.infantry.army.mil/Hunting/Reg%20200-3.pdf

Additionally, the US Army does not do amphibious operations with its Bradleys. I just graduated Mech Leaders Course and as we were told "Bradleys do not float." Your info is a little outdated, so is the article. Hal06 (talk) 19:53, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Location

It may be a minor point, but anyone who looks at a map can see that Main Post is directly south of downtown Columbus, and the whole of Fort Benning lies mainly to the southeast of greater Columbus. No part seems to lie to the southwest, as the article states. Johnskeller (talk) 09:34, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. Referencing and appropriate inline citation guidelines not met. --dashiellx (talk) 18:46, 28 April 2008 (UTC)