The National Infantry Museum: A Place You Should Visit
I was in Atlanta this week to visit some family and I decided to take a day trip to Columbus, Georgia to visit the National Infantry Museum.
I spent about three hours at the museum and it was definitely worth the drive. There are exhibits covering every period of American military history (however, the Revolutionary and Civil War eras are under construction) and there is also an extensive exhibit on the training that goes on at Fort Benning. There is also a Ranger Hall of Fame exhibit and an indoor virtual rifle range (which I wasn’t really interested in). Finally, there is a pretty good bar and restaurant upstairs if you want to get some food.
I recommend avoiding Mondays, since that is usually when OCS and ITB will send their classes over to the museum for a visit. With two companies of recruits and candidates in the museum, often times in formation, it gets pretty crowded.
Category: Military issues
I guarded the Infantry Museum one night during Zero Week at Jump School back in the 70s. (I went through basic and infantry AIT at Fort Polk to give you infantry folks an idea of how long ago it was). It was in a shithole WWII wooden barracks.
I went back to the “new” one just before I retired and it was still in a wooden WWII-era building.
So, I guess I should go back now that they’re in a real building.
Just finished CRC at Benning. Went to the museum almost every day
I went to the museum back during OSUT (mandatory trip there during training) and when I was at BNCOC back in 2007. They were working on the new museum then and already had the WWII-era camp set up. VFW magazine had an article on the museum a few months ago.
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Well hell, while we’re at it…..
http://www.nationalinfantrymuseum.com/
http://www.1cda.org/
http://us7thcavalry.com/
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