The protest was staged in Fort Benning, Ga., where the school is located, over a November weekend.
The school, designed for warfare training, was established in Panama during the '40s. It was moved to Fort Benning when the United States no longer controlled the Panama Canal. Now, with the threat of communism dissolved, protesters want the school ended.
Those responsible for the murder of the Jesuit missionaries in El Salvador some years ago were trained at SoA. The annual protest has been staged for the past 10 years and calls for a weekend of prayer, protest and solidarity for those in Mexico, Central and South America.
The local group visited the Martin Luther King Center for Peace and Non-Violence before rallying in Fort Benning. Each year the number of protesters grows: Some 10,000 people joined the protest last year.