Army shares analysis used in eliminating 3rd Brigade. (Atlanta, Columbus: military, airport)

[Fountain-of-youth]

▪ Lack of training maneuver land. At the time of the analysis, Fort Benning did not have sufficient training land for an armored brigade combat team. The analysis noted that there was sufficient land for its current units and training mission, and Fort Benning has sufficient land for a variety of other smaller combat units, should there be a force structure increase at Fort Benning.

▪ Lack of airspace. Fort Benning has a smaller restricted airspace largely because of Atlanta’s Jackson-Hartsfield International Airport to the north. Some posts have 500 miles or more of unrestricted airspace, compared to slightly more than 200 miles for Fort Benning.

▪ Dudded impact area. At the time of the analysis, Benning was unable to use all of the impact area it maintained due to previous use of the weapon system that contained unstable materials. As a result, Fort Benning could use only 9,385 of its available 16,068 acres of impact area for firing high-explosive ordnance. The post will obtain a license by the end of this month permitting the use of all 16,068 acres for firing high-explosive ordnance. If another analysis was conducted near the time of obtaining this license, this would no longer be a concern.

▪ The brigade’s geographic distribution. The distance between the 3rd Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Benning and the 3rd Infantry Division at Benning headquartered at Fort Stewart near Savannah did not permit for adequate mission command for the purposes of training, logistics,and personnel management.

Army shares analysis used in eliminating 3rd Brigade | Columbus Ledger-Enquirer

[Columbus1984]

Sounds like Benning is poised to pick up future units.