Mr. Hundley’s key assignments include: Deputy Director, Logistics Training Department, Quartermaster Center and School, Fort Lee; Acting Director, Logistics Training Department, Quartermaster Center and School; Assistant Director, Logistics Career Department, Supply and Professional Department; and team member of the Curriculum Development Division of the Directorate for Training and Doctrine of the Quartermaster Center and School, […]
General History “SUPPORTING VICTORY SINCE 1775” Dr. Isaac W. Hampton II, Quartermaster Historianwith contributions from former historians of theQuartermaster School,Dr. Leo P. Hirreland Dr. Steven E. AndersU.S. Army Quartermaster SchoolFort Lee, VA 238012018 Editorial edits for… read more General History The Quartermaster Corps traces its origins to 16 June 1775. Two days after Congress authorized […]
By COLONEL FREDERICK W. VAN DUYNE, Q. M. C.The Quartermaster Review January-February 1930 AT the present time there are eight American military cemeteries in Europe. Six are located in areas fought over by the American Expeditionary Forces, namely: Cemeteries Total Burials Unknowns Aisne-Marne Location-Belleau Woods 2,270 251 Flanders Field Location-Waereghern, Belgium 366 19 Meuse-Argonne Location-Romagne-sous- […]
Robert P. Patterson, Under Secretary of WarThe Quartermaster Review May-June 1945 As the Army has grown, and as more and more men have gone overseas, the food requirements have grown too. Supply lines are longer, and that means a larger amount of food per soldier must be put into the pipelines. Army purchases of food […]
Colonel James C. Longino, Q.M.C.The Quartermaster Review May-June 1946 Food is the most important element in combat efficiency says the General Chairman of the Conference on Military Subsistence in his opening address, delivered on April 1st at the Army War College. You are faced with a great opportunity during these sessions at which the problem […]
By Major Edward E. Adams, Q.M.C. The Quartermaster Review September-October 1946 Experiences of a QM officer detailed to pack and return art looted by the Nazis in World War II. Shortly after VJ-day I was assigned to the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives Section of the Restitution Control Branch of USFET. It was a growing […]
LTC Horn, the son of a circuit-riding minister, was born in Dorton, Pike County Kentucky in March I903. During his childhood, he lived in poverty and was sent to the deep shaft mines at the age of twelve. At sixteen, he was a gandy dancer on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway as it increased its […]
LONG BINH, Republic of Vietnam — Riggers prepare ammunition for an air drop. Troops inaccessible by roads, either because of terrain or enemy activity, rely on air drops for food, ammunition and equipment. C-123 or C-130 aircraft usually are used. 1st Logistical Command, 27 Oct 1969, U.S. Army Photo
General Pieklik enlisted in the U.S. Army immediately after Pearl Harbor, graduated from Quartermaster OCS and was commissioned second lieutenant in December 1942. During more than 32 years of active-duty service he held a wide variety of key logistical command and staff assignments at home and abroad. Prior to his retirement in 1975, he commanded […]
Command Sergeant Major Tucker’s key assignments include: Command Sergeant Major, 17th Area Support Group, Camp Zama, Japan; Command Sergeant Major, 13th Corps Support Command, Fort Hood; Command Sergeant Major, Joint Task Force Support Command, Somalia, Africa; Command Sergeant Major, 23rd Area Support Group, Camp Humphreys, Republic of Korea; and Command Sergeant Major, 5th Forward Support […]
CPT Deirdre Cozzens Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Summer 1989 ” I wanted to become airborne…” That’s the answer often given by parachute riggers when asked why they entered the field. Recruiters tell people that becoming a rigger is a guaranteed way to become, and stay, airborne. Having achieved those goals, the 43E is presented another: […]
Colonel McCaskill is from Tallahassee, Florida. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Florida A&M University and a Master of Arts in International Affairs from George Washington University. He graduated from the Infantry Officer Basic and Quartermaster Advanced Course, Command and General Staff College, and the Army War College. His key logistical […]
General Mongeon served the Army and the Quartermaster Corps with distinction for 35 years. He was commissioned in the Regular Army through the ROTC program at the University of Arizona. During his formative years, he served in a variety of Quartermaster positions to include: Division Property Book Officer of the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized); Commander, […]
by Josh | Aug 11, 2022 General Woolwine was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps after graduation from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1941. General Woolwine served in The Office of the Quartermaster General in Washington, the Deputy Chief of… by Josh | Aug 11, 2022 General Skeen entered the […]
