FORT BENNING, Ga. (WRBL) — This time of year, it's common to be asked "What did you do this summer?" But one Columbus State University junior has an answer that is anything but ordinary.

Andy Knap, a history major at CSU, spent his summer working at the U.S. Armor and Cavalry Collection on-post at Fort Benning. He’s done everything from researching to assisting in tank restorations.

“I’ve been working heavily with the curator, [Robert] Cogan, here,” Knap explained. “He’s basically been giving me a bunch of these kind of jobs [that] I would be doing as a curator of a museum, which is eventually the position I want to get to.”

This summer, Knap has helped put tracks back onto a WWII-era Sherman tank, given tours and worked with Cogan to manage the collection’s administrative and logistica

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