Lieutenant General Edmund Gregory 31st Quartermaster General April 1940 – January 1946 Edmund B. Gregory was born at Storm Lake, Iowa on July 4, 1882. He graduated from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York on June 15, 1904 with a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant of Infantry. After graduation he served with […]
General Johansen, a native South Carolinian, served two years as an enlisted soldier (1945-47) before returning to civilian life to complete college. After graduating from Texas A&M in 1950, he won a Regular Army commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. His 30 years service included multiple tours abroad in Korea, Japan, Germany […]
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 […]
Major General Hugh Mackintosh was born 7 October, 1907 in Boston, Massachusetts. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Infantry following his graduation from the United States Military Academy in 1929. His military education includes the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and the United States Army Command and Staff College. General Mackintosh […]
Major General Akin was born in Atlanta, Georgia. An ROTC graduate at North Georgia College, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the U.S. Army in 1959. He would go on to serve for nearly 34 years of distinguished active duty service, almost all of it as a Quartermaster officer. Always a “muddy boot soldier” […]
Major General Cannon was commissioned in 1967 as a distinguished military graduate from the University of Texas. His early assignments included a detail as an infantry officer with the 3rd Battalion, 10th Infantry, 5th Infantry Division and as a company commander with the 2nd Battalion, 60th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Following attendance at […]
Mr. Kowalcyzk served as an active duty Quartermaster officer for thirty years, from 1954 until his retirement as a Colonel in 1984. He then had a second very distinguished careers as a Senior Executive Service (SES) civilian in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics, in Washington, from 1984 until his final […]
Major General Sullivan was born in San Francisco, California, on 7 January 1894. Upon his graduation from West Point in 1917, he was assigned to the 10th Infantry Brigade (along with his former classmate and lifelong friend Mark Clark). As an Infantry captain in World War I, he participated in the battles of San Mihiel […]
entered military service in 1942, volunteered to be an Army paratrooper and graduated from the Airborne School that same year. CW4 Melvin received his commission in 1949 and graduated from the Rigger School in 1953. He served in various positions around the world to include assignments in Austria, Korea, Japan and Thailand. His military service […]
Command Sergeant Major Shepherd entered military service at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in April 1960, and attended Advanced Individual Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. His subsequent military education included graduating from the Primary Leadership Development Course, Basic and Advanced Noncommissioned Officer Course, and the Sergeants Major Academy. Command Sergeant Major Shepherd held a wide variety […]
CW4 Daryl W. Giddings served the U.S. Army and the Quartermaster Corps for twenty six and one half years. Mr. Giddings specialized in food service and he excelled at it. Mr. Giddings’ major assignments include: Director, Army Food Service School, Fort Jackson, South Carolina; Quartermaster Warrant Officer Career Manager/ Assignment Officer, Military Personnel Center, Alexandria, […]
CW5 Zimmerman began his military career as an enlisted soldier at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, in 1960. Following his discharge in 1963, he served with the Georgia Army National Guard until he was recalled to active duty as a Supply Warrant Officer in August 1967. He continued to serve in that capacity until his retirement […]
Major General Emmett W. Bowers graduated as an Reserve Officers’ Training Corps honor graduate from Mercer University in 1951 and was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps. During the early years in his career, he was detailed to the Artillery Corps. Serving in Korea with the 2d Division Artillery, he was wounded in […]
May 11, 2016 Josh Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Winter 1993 267th Quartermaster Company NCOs comment on petroleum operations The following are some first-hand observations of noncommissioned officers (NCOs) in the 267th Quartermaster Company, 240th Quartermaster Battalion, after deployment to Operation Restore Hope in Somalia. While in Somalia, the 267th Quartermaster Company’s main mission was to […]
