Quartermasters hit the beach (Quartermaster Review Sept-Oct 1944) “No one seems ever to think a soldier in QM ever gets to smell any gunpowder, dig any foxholes, get into any fighting, go without food, mail and the like. Our QM outfit hit the beach on D-day right when the heat was on, and more outfits […]
By Major A. A. CEDERWALD, QM-Res. The Quartermaster Review – November-December 1928 IN TRACING the events that led up to the organization of the Remount Service, as we know it today, it seems desirable, purely as an historical recital, to state briefly the efforts made by the authorities of the War Department during a long […]
LTC Butte was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, and enlisted in the United States Army in February 1943. He served with the 603rd Quartermaster Graves Registration Company in Europe in World War II, and took part in the Normandy Invasion and the Battle of the Bulge, and while still in Europe was commissioned Second Lieutenant. He […]
Colonel Lou Mason was born at Fort Bragg, North Carolina in 1945. In 1967, he entered active duty through the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), Program and graduated from Southern Mississippi. Colonel Mason served tours with the 5th Special Forces in Republic Vietnam (RVN) (Detachment B-55), and later as the Chief, Supply Division, G-4, US […]
CW5 Ormsby’s key assignments include: Command Food Advisor, Multinational Forces-Iraq, (MNF-I) Baghdad; Command Food Advisor, U.S. Army Reserve Command, Fort McPherson, Georgia; Command Food Advisor, U.S. Army Reserve 81st Regional Support Command, Birmingham, Alabama; Command Food Advisor, U.S. Army Reserve 88th Regional Support Command, Indianapolis, Indiana; and the Command Food Advisor, 79th Army Reserve Command, […]
Compiled from the Archives of the US Army Quartermaster Museum and oral interviews by K. Born In the spring of 1950, with the start of the Korean War, the Quartermaster Corps was formally assigned the mission of procurement, storage, maintenance and issue of air supply equipment and the training of soldiers in aerial delivery. What […]
Colonel Holland is a Maryland native. He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant through ROTC upon graduating as a Distinguished Military Graduate from Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, and served as an Infantry officer until his transfer to the Quartermaster Corps in 1967. Thereafter he served 28 years on active duty, while enjoying a widespread reputation as […]
Master Sergeant Bertoldo was born and raised in Decatur, Illinois, and worked as a coal miner and truck driver. Though he was exempt from the World War II draft because of poor eyesight, he enlisted in the United States Army in 1942 and was approved for limited duty in the United States as a military […]
Command Sergeant Major Ricky A. Vernon is a native of Grand Haven, Michigan. In 1970 at seventeen years old he entered the United States Army and attended initial training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Command Sergeant Major Vernon served as the 4th Regimental Command Sergeant Major of the US Army Quartermaster Center and School. Command Sergeant […]
General Sheffey was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania on 27 August 1928. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from Central State University, Wilberforce Ohio in 1950. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Infantry after his graduation as a Distinguished Military Graduate from the ROTC program. His advanced education includes a […]
Colonel Barrett, a native of Royal Oak, Michigan, was graduated from Western Michigan University in 1957 where he was also commissioned through the ROTC program. During the Vietnam War, he served as Captain/S-4 in the 5th and 6th Special Forces Groups, first providing logistics support for long range reconnaissance missions, and later supervising and directing […]
General Welch was born in Hermosa Beach, California on 19 April 1925. After World War II service with the Office of Strategic Services, General Welch was commissioned a Quartermaster Officer upon graduating from Stanford University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics and Accounting. He also earned a Master of Business Administration degree from […]
Korean War By LTC IRWIN A. DAHL, QMCThe Quartermaster ReviewJanuary-February 1954 THE SOLUTION of logistical problems arising during an active campaign must reflect an adjustment between lessons derived from previous operations and existing conditions. The factors… read more Korean War By Corporal Mel ScottThe Quartermaster Review(January-February 1951) An article on the 2nd Quartermaster Company, 2nd […]
CSM Getrea graduated from Gaithersburg High School in Gaithersburg, Maryland, in 1942, and was drafted into the Army in 1943. He attended basic training and advanced infantry training at Fort Benning where he also graduated from the Airborne Jump School. He served on active duty from 1943 to 1969 – through World War II, Korea […]
