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🚧 GeneralThe 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.Read →
- What the trip costs🚧 GeneralRealistic 2026 cost ranges for the Family Day and Graduation trip — flights, hotel, rental, meals, the Wednesday afternoon dinner.Read →
- Hotels near base✓ VerifiedVetted hotels within practical drive time of the gate, sorted by what actually matters on graduation week.Read →
- Accessibility🚧 GeneralMobility, hearing, visual, and sensory accommodations for graduation week — how to plan and where to ask.Read →
- What to bring✓ VerifiedDocuments, bleacher gear, on-post day-pass items, and what stays in the hotel.Read →
- What to wear🚧 GeneralFamily Day and Graduation dress code, season-by-season layering guidance, and what not to bring to the bleachers.Read →
- Getting to the gate🚧 GeneralFrom the airport to a parking spot at the parade field: which gate, what to expect at security, when the lot fills.Read →
- Family Day✓ VerifiedWednesday before graduation: the ceremony, the day-pass with your Soldier, and what to expect.Read →
- Graduation morning🚧 GeneralTactical Thursday morning: the night-before checklist, gate-line timing, bleacher logistics, and finding your Soldier after the parade.Read →
- Family Day pass🚧 GeneralThe 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.Read →
- Things to do nearby🚧 GeneralHow 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.Read →
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.
OSUT track pages — start here for Benning
Benning is an OSUT installation — the canonical ceremony detail lives on the track pages below. The two-trip planning model (intermediate ceremony + final graduation) is on each track page.