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A week before the Army put Fort Benning’s proposal to acquire more training land on hold, a group from Stewart County met with members of the Georgia Congressional delegation.

ALBANY, GA. -- The first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps are being honored with the Congressional Gold Medal. It's the highest civilian award in the United States.

Congressman Sanford D. Bishop Jr. joined a bipartisan majority in the U.S. House of Representatives voting in favor of the H.R. 2447 resolution.

Robert L. Gordon III, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Military Community and Family Policy)

The nation’s first black Marines received a rare national tribute Tuesday as the House voted to award the Montford Point Marines with the Congressional Gold Medal, the highest civilian honor given by Congress.

Facing a national budget deficit and growing opposition to the Army’s plan to acquire 82,800 acres of training land for Fort Benning, officials have put the proposal on hold five months after a draft environmental study selected Stewart County as the preferred alternative.

Military families have a lot of the same issues as anybody else – employment, education, health care – but their problems are compounded by the massive government bureaucracy that is the Department of Defense.