Event raises cash for wounded soldiers

Fourth annual Benning-Gordon Relay set for next week

Student Veterans Association members from Georgia Southern ran with members of the Benning to Gordon Relay team last year as the relay passed through Bulloch County on its 250-mile path from fort to fort. Veterans from various organizations joined a core group to make the 270-mile trek and raised $6,000 for the Fort Gordon Warrior Transition Battalion and the Fisher House, which serves as a temporary home for the families of soldiers being treated at the post's medical center. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/file

Benning-Gordon Relay 2015 FILE — Student Veterans Association members from Georgia Southern ran with members of the Benning to Gordon Relay team last year as the relay passed through Bulloch County on its 250-mile path from fort to fort. Veterans from various organizations joined a core group to make the 270-mile trek and raised $6,000 for the Fort Gordon Warrior Transition Battalion and the Fisher House, which serves as a temporary home for the families of soldiers being treated at the post's medical center. - photo by SCOTT BRYANT/file

Six men and a boy from the Millen area, joined at times by others, such as military veterans who are students at Georgia Southern University, will take turns running, crossing Georgia in the fourth annual Benning to Gordon Relay. No one runner covers the whole distance, but the relay will span about 250 miles, Thursday through Sunday, from Buena Vista, near Fort Benning in metro-Columbus, to Ford Gordon near Augusta. There the relay will end, with some check presentations at the Fisher House outside Eisenhower Army Medical Center.

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