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
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
Mother, andrea swift. Taylor swifts mom makes an emotional appearance at the Country Music awards. Her first since her Cancer Battle was revealed. I am a very proud mom. Her heart felt speech honoring her superstar daughter today, monday, april 20th, 2015. Announcer from nbc news this is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. And good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a monday morning. Welcome back to my pal savannah. Back from a family vacation. Yes. We had a great time at the beach. My baby got paler. She sat in the shade. But we had a great time. That makes you a good mom. And may there be interest in the tim tebow story in your household . Yes. My husband told me before he was going to bed. Thats great hes great at running the spread offense. Well have more on that coming up. Lets get to the top story this morning. Another person arrested for jumping the fence at the white house. This time the secret service wasting no time to appr
Thunderstorms. Some severe. Well track that coming up in just a bit. First lets go to larry with traffic. I want to let me metro riders know the trains are running on schedule this morning. No issues to report. As well as the buses. We are definitely off to a good star. Looks like the flood water have a problem in the metro. I want to take you right now to i27 0 for those of you in frederick traveling south toward the beltway, no major issues. We have slowdowns as you get closer to clarksburg, so you want to account for that as well. Flooding water taking place on the 1500 block of east he were avenue at addison road. Where we had three cars stuck as a result of the flood waters out there we have been seeing this issue of rising water throughout the metro causing problems for drivers and various accidents throughout the metro, we are asking people to stay away from areas that are dangerous and make sure you slow down and get plenty of time to get to your destination because the roads a
Attack on obama care is deeper than policy. Its about this president. Both Speaker Boehner and majority leader eric cantor denied the comment today. And a spokesman for the white house also denied it. Senator durbin has not commented. But there is no denying. Speaker boehners fear mongering about obama care today. Weve got the whole threat of obama care continuing to hang over our economy like a wet blanket. Employers scared to death in terms of what they have to do, what they dont have to do. Employers are scared to death . Really . To death . And majority leader cantor had the same talking points today. The American People are now fearful of their health care. I mean, theyre down right scared about whats going to happen with their health care next year. Americans are down right scared. Scared of what . Getting Health Coverage . Heres what the gop should be scared and what should scare the daylights out of the other republicans. Today a poll backs up the other three after the shutdown