by Josh | Aug 15, 2022 | Somalia
CPT Larry NaylorQuartermaster Professional Bulletin – Spring 1994 The 364th Supply and Service Company at Fort Bragg, NC. first deployed to Somalia in January 1993. A small element of 30 personnel was tasked with purifying and distributing water to United...
by Josh | Aug 15, 2022 | Korean War
By MAJOR LEE 0. HILL Q.M.C.Quartermaster Review March-April 1952 Major Lee 0. Hill, Chief, Remount Branch, Field Service Division, OQMG, was born on a ranch in Texas and was at home in the saddle at a very early age. Then he enlisted in the Army he merely transferred...
by Josh | Aug 15, 2022 | World War II
Lt. Col. James H. Caruthers, Q.M.C.The Quartermaster ReviewMarch-April 1945 This is an account of the duties, experiences, and problems of a division quartermaster from the time the Second Infantry Division departed from its home station at Fort Sam...
by Josh | Aug 15, 2022 | General History
This Week in Quartermaster History Note: This resource page also contains ‘Quotes of the Week’
by Josh | Aug 14, 2022 | Civil War
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Batcheldor In October 1863 on the heels of the Battle of Gettysburg the Federal Army established headquarters in Culpeper, VA. Chief Quartermaster for the Second Corps, Lt. Col. Richard Batchelder was tasked with seeing that the 4,000...
by Josh | Aug 26, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs in World War II
1946 Pamphlet Produced by the Quartermaster Corps for Next of Kin of Deceased Service Personnel from World War II “Tell me about my boy” is the request most frequently sent to the quartermaster general of the army by next of kin who want additional information...
by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | Korean War Era
By LIEUTENANT WALTER J. WARNER, Q.M.C. Quartermaster Review September-October 1950 On Armed Forces Day, May 20th, Quartermaster personnel at Fort Lee were treated to a preview of their own armed forces in action in a war of the future when forty paratroopers of the...
by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | Somalia
SFC Kenneth E. Price, Jr.Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Spring 1994 Quartermaster water support during Operation Restore Hope in Jilib, Somalia, reinforced one non-commissioned officer’s viewpoint of the Army’s need for strict sanitation...
by Josh | Aug 24, 2022 | Korean War, Korean War
By Ludlow KingQuartermaster Review March-April 1953Reprinted from the January-February Ordnance Lt. Rodney M. Brigg of the Body Armor Team, 40th Infantry Division, points to a bruise on Lt Frank Bassett, Co. G, 180th Inf Reg, made by hand grenade fragments. LT...
by Josh | Aug 23, 2022 | War Dogs
By SP4 Wain RubensteinDanger Forward, The Magazine of the Big Red One, VietnamVolume Three, Number TwoJune 1969 The use of dogs as an auxiliary in-war is as old as war itself. Primitive man used dogs to guard his family, his belongings and himself. He also took his...
by Josh | Aug 15, 2022 | World War II
Col. James H. Caruthers, Q.M.C.The Quartermaster ReviewMay-June 1945 Part I of Colonel Caruthers’ Travelogue closed with a description of the Channel crossing on D+1. This concluding installment covers the following days of action and the reduction...
by Josh | Aug 15, 2022 | General History
View Biographies of Previous Quartermaster SchoolCommand Sergeants Major
by Josh | Aug 14, 2022 | Heritage
Link to: Quartermaster Corps Flag and Crest
by Josh | Aug 26, 2022 | Mortuary Affairs in World War II
World War II Identification, Undated U.S. Army Photo Munda Cemetery #1, New Georgia, September 1943, U.S. Army Photo Personal Effects being checked at a collection point in the European Theater, Undated U.S. Army Photo Army Chaplain Francis L. Sampson of Sioux Falls,...
by Josh | Aug 25, 2022 | Other Aerial Delivery Historical Articles
Chief Warrant Officer FourJohn Ashley WardQuartermaster Hall of Fame1994 CW4 John Ashley Ward was born on 19 September 1910, in Watkinsville, Georgia. He joined the U.S. Army on 19 November 1932 as an Infantry private. He served with the 5th Infantry Division in China...
by Josh | Aug 24, 2022 | Remount
The Pentagram News, Washington D.C.March 24, 1966 CHIEF, the last living cavalry horse still carried on government rolls, was foaled in 1932 and purchased by the Army in 1940 at Ft.Robinson, Neb. In December of 1949 he was placed in semi-retirement and was fully...
by Josh | Aug 24, 2022 | Korean War, Korean War
Office of the Quartermaster GeneralWashington, D.C.23 December 1952 Army T-52-2 Armored Vest29 October 1952 Note: Despite the widespread popular use of the term, no military service has developed a practical “bullet-proof” vest. Vests made of any...
by Josh | Aug 23, 2022 | Heritage
The Coat of Arms for the Quartermaster Corps was authorized by the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry effective 16 June 1994. A Coat of Arms has always been an object of pride which symbolizes the past deeds of the unit it represents. The coat of arms appears on the...
by Josh | Aug 23, 2022 | War Dogs
A resource page for books, magazine and newspaper articles on military dogs. General Burnam, John C., Dog Tags of Courage: The Turmoil of War and the Rewards of Companionship, Lost Coast Press, 1999, 355 p. Cramer, Richard Ben, “They Were Heroes Too”,...
by Josh | Aug 15, 2022 | World War II
The Story of the 970th QM Service Company By PFC Herman C. Klein, Q.M.C.The Quartermaster Review – November/December 1945 It was a raw bleak morning on the 27th of February when the 970th QM Service Company sailed out of the New York harbor on the first leg of a...
