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