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Monroe has graduated from the Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. The training consists of basic infantry training and advanced individual training. During the nine weeks of basic combat training, the soldier received...
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He called me up one day and said, ‘If you ever have any extra tickets, I have some soldiers in the transition battalion that would love to go to an Auburn game,’” Tarleton said...The timing was perfect, too, as the alumni association chapter was under...
Tags: Mike Tarleton, Jana Tarleton, Sean Burns, Columbus, Auburn Tigers, Tarleton, Fort Benning, Columbus Georgia metropolitan area, Tarleton State University, allnews, War Conflict
The Department of Defense says a soldier from Georgia has been killed while fighting in Iraq...Williams, of Sparks, died Sunday from injuries he suffered when insurgents attacked his unit in Numaniyah. Williams was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 10th...
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Mallon Faircloth, protester Michael Walli made it clear he did not want bond. He asked the judge to allow him to remain in the Harris County Jail until his January 2010 trial. Faircloth refused the request, and the 61-year-old protester said he would...
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Scott Galindez, t r u t h o u t Report Thousands Rally at the gates of Fort Benning. (Photo: Linda Panetta) This weekend, thousands of people gathered at the gates of Ft. Benning to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the killings of 14-year-old Celia...
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The couple joined thousands of other protestors who gathered Saturday at Fort Benning’s gates for the 20th annual event. The protest seeks to close the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation — formerly known as the School of the Americas,...
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The issue has become a political firestorm, with congressional hearings being held into the incident. The new developments pose tough questions as to why Hasan was left in his job, despite numerous red flags over the previous few years that he might...
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It was 6 a.m. on Nov. 16, 1989, when a gardener named Obdulio Ramos saw that six Jesuit priests and his wife and daughter had been gunned down by soldiers in El Salvador. From these killings came the movement that 20 years later Columbus knows as “SOA...
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Peter Sprenger lost his right eye to shrapnel from an exploding car bomb during his first combat tour in Iraq, but the Army infantryman never let the wound dim his focus on staying in the fight. With the help of his then-division commander, Gen.
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Stanley has graduated from the Direct Fire Infantryman One Station Unit Training at Fort Benning, Columbus, Ga. The training consists of Basic Combat Training and Advanced Individual Training. During nine weeks of Basic Combat Training, Stanley received...
Tags: Seth A. Stanley, Evansville, Fort Benning, Muscogee County Georgia, Russell County Alabama, Recruit training, United States Army Basic Training, United States Army, United States Army Training and Doctrine Command, Columbus Georgia metropolitan area, War Conflict, Education