By Kelly O'Connell Reporter
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It was a big day for Fort Benning. News 3 On Your Side
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Stumble It!A groundbreaking ceremony was held to symbolize the future growth for the base.
It's been in the works now for years but today marked the day when the new Maneuver Center of Excellence is officially coming to Fort Benning.
The site will soon become the center for the Armor School.
The Armor School will be moving from Fort Knox to Fort Benning by September 15 of 2011.
This center is just one of a number of new buildings that will house the soldiers for the US Army Armor School.
Generals from both Fort Knox and Fort Benning say today marks a historic event for the army.
“Some day they will probably look back at the pictures and say general Campbell and Wojdakowski were apart of it and if some young trooper looks at that and says that's why I’m here, it will make it all worth it,” says Fort Knox BG Donald Campbell.
“Ensuring as when we create the MCOE we make both the infantry and the armor better and I’m looking forward to 15 September 2011 when a maneuver center commander stands here and says we've accomplished this mission and now the army's going to be better for it,” says Fort Benning MG Walter Wojdakowski.
The new school is scheduled to be up and running by September of 2011 and soldiers from Fort Knox are expected to start coming down to Fort Benning in about two years.
The move from Fort Knox was part of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure Report.
It could bring as many as 30,000 people into the area.
