Army’s 1st Black Ranger Instructor Fought Crime in Georgia A U.S. Army Ranger tab hangs above the training area where the competitors for the Best Ranger Competition wait to begin at Camp Rogers, Fort Benning, Ga., April 11, 2014. (U.S. Army photo/Austin Berner) 14 Feb 2021 The Associated Press | By TIM CHITWOOD, Ledger-Enquirer COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) — Columbus drug dealers couldn’t scare an old Army Ranger who’d done two tours of combat duty in Vietnam, so they gave up. That’s how Milton “Davey” Lockett Jr. became a local hero at least twice, in his life: At Fort Benning, he became the Army’s first Black Ranger instructor, in 1959.