Army’s 1st Black Ranger instructor remembered for fighting crime in Columbus, Georgia Tim Chitwood, (Columbus, Ga.) Ledger-Enquirer via the AP February 14 A Ranger sign inside a training camp near Schofield Barracks, Oahu, Hawaii, May 13, 2019. (Staff Sgt. Hailey Haux/Air Force) COLUMBUS, Ga. — 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. In the Columbus neighborhood where he retired, he led a front-line attack on crime in the 1990s, helping start Carver Heights Against Drugs.