Mr. Marshall J. Jones was born in South Hill, Virginia. He was commissioned through the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Program at Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia. In 1979, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree and was selected as the Distinguished Military Graduate. Mr. Jones earned an academic Fellow and National Football […]
Colonel Hendon entered the U.S. Army as an Enlisted Soldier in 1969 and was commissioned Second Lieutenant through Officer Candidate School in 1970. Over the course of his outstanding 26-year career as a Quartermaster officer he served with and commanded some of the Army’s best logistics units in Europe and Vietnam, as well as here […]
Field Services, Somalia CPT Bruce E. CoxQuartermaster Professional Bulletin – Spring 1994 On 8 Oct 93, during a four-day weekend, at approximately 0930 hours, the 16th Field Service Company was alerted to deploy to Somalia from Fort Lee, VA. The mission was to support a 1,800-soldier task… read more Somalia Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Winter […]
Chief Warrant Officer Four Roy Warren served with distinction for more than 32 years. This decorated Veteran served as an Infantryman, a Parachute Rigger, and as an Aerial Delivery Warrant Officer before retiring from active duty in December 1983. CW4 Warren enlisted in the Army in 1951, and served his initial combat tour in Korea […]
Mr. Weis provided a lifetime of support to the United States Army and the Quartermaster Corps. He started as an analyst for the Quartermaster School and later served as a branch chief responsible for the training of tens of thousands of Quartermaster Soldiers. Later, he was selected to establish and lead the newly authorized Supply […]
Mr. John Q. McNulty served in a number of key positions as an Army Quartermaster Officer. His Army career spanned twenty-nine years of enlisted and commissioned service with twenty-two years involved in various aspects of Army feeding to include subsistence management and commissary management. He was one of the initial officers selected to represent the […]
A native of Fola, West Virginia, Colonel Legg was born on March 17, 1923, and was the eldest of the 11 children of John Curtis Legg and Hattie Holcomb Legg. He entered West Virginia University in 1941 and planned a career in agricultural science before World War II intervened. He was inducted into the United […]
Quartermaster Review September-October 1950 The following extracts are from a report of the proceedings of a committee which met on March 27th to study the problem of Quartermaster support of Airborne operations. Most of the testimony reprinted below is that of Maj. Gen. James A. Gavin, U.S.A., who is a recognized authority in the armed […]
Mr. Smith’s career spanned 45 years of service, both in the military and as a civil service employee. Throughout his career, Smith earned himself the reputation as “Mr. Supply” to the Quartermaster Corps. His military career began in World War II. He served in Corregidor, was captured by Japanese Army in 1942 and remained a […]
By Corporal Mel Scott The Quartermaster Review(January-February 1951) An article on the 2nd Quartermaster Company, 2nd Infantry Division in Korea A long procession of trucks moved slowly down the main U. S. supply route toward a railhead. A sentry walking his post remarked: “It looks like a division moving up. I wonder which one. I […]
by Josh | Aug 11, 2022 General Robison was born 8 October 1939 in Good Hope, Georgia, and died 1 September 1998 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a graduate from the University of Georgia, where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education in 1961. Upon graduation, he was… by Josh | Aug 11, […]
During a thirty year career, from 1972 until 2002, CSM Gammon served in a variety of significant senior non-commissioned officer positions including Command Sergeant Major of the 99th Support Battalion, 9th Infantry Division, Division Support Command, Quartermaster NCO Academy, 23rd Quartermaster Brigade, 45th Corps Support Group, 25th Infantry Division, Division Support Command, and the U.S. […]
Recovery in 1959 of B-24 Bomber crew lost in Libyan Desert in 1943 Story of the 1959-60 search for and recovery of crew members of the B-24 Bomber Lady Be Good. This aircraft was discovered in the Libyan Desert 16 years after it lost its way back from a World War II mission to bomb […]
CW5 Gillis’ key assignments include: Command Food Advisor for the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Command Food Advisor/Commissary Officer for the U.S. Forces Korea and the Eighth U.S. Army, Yongsan Garrison, Korea; Division Food Advisor/Technician, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg; Command Food Advisor Technician, 1st Corps Support Command, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort […]
