Fort Benning guides

The full set of Fort Benning graduation-week reading. Start with the plan-ahead guides, work down to the day-of details. Each one is focused on a single decision so you can skim if you’re short on time.

• Training schedule

  🚧 General
  The full BCT timeline — the phases, what your Soldier is doing each one, the culminating field exercise, and what families can expect to hear back. Fort Leonard Wood uses a different phase naming system (Yellow/Hammer/Anvil/Forge); the page surfaces that where it applies.
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• What the trip costs

  🚧 General
  Realistic 2026 cost ranges for the Family Day and Graduation trip — flights, hotel, rental, meals, the Wednesday afternoon dinner.
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• Hotels near base

  ✓ Verified
  Vetted hotels within practical drive time of the gate, sorted by what actually matters on graduation week.
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• Accessibility

  🚧 General
  Mobility, hearing, visual, and sensory accommodations for graduation week — how to plan and where to ask.
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• What to bring

  ✓ Verified
  Documents, bleacher gear, on-post day-pass items, and what stays in the hotel.
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• What to wear

  🚧 General
  Family Day and Graduation dress code, season-by-season layering guidance, and what not to bring to the bleachers.
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• Getting to the gate

  🚧 General
  From the airport to a parking spot at the parade field: which gate, what to expect at security, when the lot fills.
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• Family Day

  ✓ Verified
  Wednesday before graduation: the ceremony, the day-pass with your Soldier, and what to expect.
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• Graduation morning

  🚧 General
  Tactical Thursday morning: the night-before checklist, gate-line timing, bleacher logistics, and finding your Soldier after the parade.
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• Family Day pass

  🚧 General
  The pass that releases your Soldier to spend Wednesday with family: where you can go, when to be back, and what they can wear and do.
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• Things to do nearby

  🚧 General
  How to spend the Wednesday afternoon off-post pass and the Thursday extra day — food clusters, light activities, what to skip. Verified for Columbia, SC near Fort Jackson; other gateway cities are coming as we confirm.
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About these badges: ✓ Verified guides have Benning-specific content (or stub data flagged honestly on the page). 🚧 General guides are written for Fort Jackson — they cover the general pattern and surface a banner pointing you at the Benning garrison source where details differ. We’re populating the rest as content is verified.