By J. Britt McCarley Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – December 1988 “Who shall have this?” Sergeant John W. Fuller asked in a voice loud enough for all the assembled troops to hear. He stood beside two ordinary army blankets laden with precious contents. One contained forty-five carefully divided mounds of ground coffee, the other an equal […]
CW4 Cornelius B. Williams CW4 Williams entered active duty as an Enlisted Soldier on 2 February 1973 and rapidly rose to the rank of Sergeant First Class. Recognizing his potential for increased responsibility the Army selected and appointed him Warrant Officer in August 1986. CW4 Williams retired from active duty on 21 May 2003 culminating […]
This Report was extracted from the Unofficial history of the Australian & New Zealand Armed Services where it had been included because in the Pacific the Australian army was, to a large degree, dependent on the US military for the supply of Quartermaster Services The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, suddenly and […]
The Quartermaster Review – September-October 1928 EDITOR’S NOTE.-The following article was supplied by Lt. Col. A. B. Warfield, Q. M. C., and furnishes invaluable information as to the functioning of the Quartermaster Corps during the Civil War period–nothing, however, being discussed that does not apply as well today as it did then, which makes the […]
The Quartermaster Review July-August 1945 Quartermaster support of operations in Luzon, Philippines THE VILLA VERDE TRAIL A human pack train of 1,900 Filipinos and Igorotes is today carrying rations and ammunition up the tortuous Villa Verde trail, in the mountains of northern Luzon, to the foxholes of the infantrymen of the 32nd Division. The story […]
By DR. WILLIAM CHAIKIN Quartermaster Review May-June 1950 In the ”Great War,” which we now call World War I. the accomplishments of the Quartermaster Corps overseas were such as to stand as a model of achievement to the generation of officers who led the Corps in the new crisis following Pearl Harbor. Officers assigned as […]
Brigadier General Fernando Fernandez was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps upon graduating from the University of Puerto Rico ROTC Program in 1983. His military education includes the Quartermaster Officer Basic and Advanced Courses, Associate Logistics Executive Development Course, Army Command and General Staff […]
By Ludlow KingQuartermaster Review March-April 1953 Reprinted 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 Bassett’s body armor absorbed most of the impact of the blast. 20 June […]
Supply of the First American Overseas Expeditionary Force By Dr Alvin P. Stauffer Quartermaster Review, May-June 1950 When the American mail arriving in London late in May 1846 brought England its first word of the outbreak of the Mexican War, The Times immediately noted that the United States Army had only 7,200 men as compared […]
Colonel Sanders enlisted in the United States Army in June 1945 and served in Europe until December 1946. He was commissioned on May 27, 1950, as a Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps after completing Reserve Officer ‘Training at the University of Alabama. He later received his master’s degree from the University of Alabama. He […]
Mortuary Affairs in World War II 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 […]
CW5 Fetchet’s key assignments include: Command Property Account Technician, Headquarters, 3rd Medical Command (Deployment Support), Fort Gillem, Georgia; Senior Property Account Technician and Accountable Officer, Headquarters, Army Reserve Medical Command, Pinellas Park, Florida; Senior Property Account Technician, Headquarters, U.S. Army Reserve Command, Fort McPherson, Georgia; and Senior Property Account Technician/ Liaison Officer, Headquarters, Third Army/Coalition Forces […]
MG Francisco A. Espaillat Major General Francisco A. Espaillat was commissioned into the United States Army Quartermaster Corps through Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) from Georgia Military College in 1982. In a career that spanned 35 years MG Espaillat served in a wide range of Quartermaster, Logistics, and Acquisition assignments. Shortly after completing company command, […]
Brigadier General Paul E. Smith began his military career at the age of 17, enlisting in the US Army during World War II. He advanced to the grade of First Sergeant and participated in the combat parachute assault into Holland and fought at Bastogne with the 101st Airborne Division (Airborne). In 1946, he received a […]
