Training and allow the army to expand from 200,000 soldiers to before5 million soldiers the war would be concluded. In that they would train 65,000 officer candidates to help lead that army. Here from all types of training, Ranger School, airborne school, one station unit training for the these are your youngest soldiers that come in, and they will begin to become infantrymen , and they will go through what we still call basic training, and then advanced individual training. They will go through those courses, the gas chambers, learn how to utilize their weapon systems, learn how to read maps, learn first aid, anything a soldier will need to survive on the modern battlefield, they will begin to teach it here. Then you can go to airborne school. Airborneall the soldiers for the entire armed forces of the United States at fort benning. If you are a navy seal you will come here for airborne training. If you are in the pararescue for the air force you will come infort benning to be trained
For nearly a century. Fort benning was established on macon road in columbus, georgia, on approximately 85 acres of land in october of 19 18th 1918. On that day the war came to a close and there was talk of closing fort denning. Many officers who had served in the American Expeditionary forces to france went before congress to testify that had our soldiers had better training they would not have suffer the casualties that they did in just 210 days of actual combat, so it was determined by congress that we would keep fort benning on a smaller scale and luckily for us, it survived. But first, go on board the css jackson, one of only four surviving ironclads dating back to the civil war. We are in the National Civil war naval museum on the banks of the chattahoochee river. The purpose of the naval museum is to tell the stories of the navys during the civil war. We are the only facility that focuses entirely on that particular story. We are in a unique place, right here inside the museum a
His mind, images he wouldnt be able to report, however, subconscious they were, maybe got a flickr of something as he lay there across the street. My hope is that as he lay dying lincoln was able to call to mind the image of even jesus on the cross, perhaps, but certainly my hope is that he would have had the knowledge that historic irony was about to take place. He was about to die, having been shot all the very day of jesuss crucifixion. And that would send him into a martyrdom like none other. Maybe he had some inkling that this was his fate. Of course, as is just my fantasy. But we do know, i think, the during the day of april 14, he may have been looking forward happily to the knights of thinking the night of thinking that lay ahead. Take you. [applause] thank you. [applause] richard i see a questioner,. A quick question about what motivated you to write your book given that you would written previous books about religious history in america. Like slaves the shift to lincoln . Wha
No other group of americans has given more in defense of this country than the United States infantry. 11 00 we have lost more eyes, more arms, more legs and more lives on the battlefield than any other group of americans. And its all because they were willing to go out and give their lives in defense of the country. Fort benning was established on macon road in columbus, georgia, on approximately 85 acres of land in october of 1918. Caroline benning, the daughter of henry lewis benning, for whom the fort was named, raised the First American flag over the camp. They knew 85 acres of land was not going to be enough for training modern infantry soldiers. They talked with a local businessman who owned a lot of land around here and he agreed to sell it to the army and we eventually moved out here in 1919. In world war i, the infantry played a key role on the battlefield for all those participating in the war. It was determined that had we had better training, we would have lost fewer soldi