Fort Benning is a military base facility of the United States military southwest of Columbus, Georgia. The base is located in Muscogee County and Chattahoochee County, and takes up most of the land area of each. It is named for Confederate General Henry L. Benning , a native of Columbus.

The base has a large basic training facility for infantry. It is home to the Infantry Training Brigade of the United States Army as well being the Army's foremost airborne (parachuting) training center.

Fort Benning is also home to:

• The US Army Ranger School, one of the army's elite forces
• The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC), formerly known as School of the Americas
• The US Army Pathfinder training school
• The US Army's sniper training school

Because of all of the essential programs it is home to, Fort Benning is considered extremely unlikely to be hit with a base closing , unlike many of Georgia's other military facilities which are at risk.