The research and career of the physiologist, Dr. Ancel Keys had a profound effect on society’s attitude to food and exercise. His work spanning from the 1930’s through the 1970’s, introduced many of the assumptions which we now take for granted about the relationship between diet, energy expenditure, metabolic rates and health. In 1937, Keys […]
CSM Patton was born in Nacogdoches, Texas, and enlisted in the U.S. Army in November 1965. He completed basic training at Fort Polk, Louisiana, and advanced individual training at Fort Ord, California. He later completed airborne training, Subsistence Food Storage Course, instructor training, and the First Sergeant Course, and is a graduate of the Sergeants […]
Lieutenant Colonel Butte was born in Duquesne, Pennsylvania, and enlisted in the U. S. 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. […]
General Hartman was first assigned to the Third Infantry in the Philippines, where he served in hostile operations against the Moros uprising. He served in various other assignments over the next 28 years, including Graves Registration Service, Paris, France; Constructing Quartermaster, Assistant Director and Director of Sales for the War Department, Washington, DC; and War […]
US Army Quartermaster Foundation Fort Lee, Virginia Colonel Timothy Pickering 4th Quartermaster General August 1780-July 1785 Timothy Pickering was born at Salem, Massachusetts, on July 17, 1745, of a family prominent since the early years of settlement. His father was sufficiently well-to-do to give him a good education, and he graduated from Harvard College in […]
Father of the modern Quartermaster Corps, Quartermaster General during World War I. Henry Granville Sharpe was born at Kingston, New York on April 30, 1858. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy in 1880. Sharpe served on frontier duty with the 4th Infantry at Fort Laramie, Wyoming for the next year and a half. Following […]
Colonel Hulsey entered the U.S. Army on 11 July 1941, five months before Pearl Harbor, attended Infantry Officer Candidate School (OCS) and was commissioned Second Lieutenant upon graduation in November 1942. In the last two years of the war he served as an Infantry officer in the 69th and the 29th Infantry Divisions, respectively – […]
Nathanael Greene was born in Rhode Island in 1742 of Quaker parentage. From boyhood he was trained to work in the mills and the forge owned by his father. While he attended no college, he displayed an aptitude for study, and his reading was guided by Ezra Stiles, who became president of Yale. In the […]
Mr. Edward Holt Neese’s military and civilian education include a B.S. in Commerce from Southeastern University and the National Resources Course at the Industrial College of the Armed forces. His career spanned over 31 years of service to our nation in the military and as a civil service employee. Mr.Neese’s military career began in 1943 […]
Major General Harry L. Dukes Jr. was born October 29, 1928, in Newberry, SC, and died May 21, 1987. After graduating from Clemson University with a bachelor of science degree in textiles, General Dukes was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1952. He also graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a master’s degree in […]
was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Infantry after completing Reserve Officer Training as a Distinguished Military Graduate at Howard University. His advanced education includes a master of business administration degree from George Washington University, the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, and the Army War College. General Gaskill’s most recent […]
Colonel Johnson served more than thirty years as a Quartermaster officer. After retirement for military service in 1972, he served eight years as a senior civil service employee. Throughout his long and distinguished career he established a reputation as the top petroleum specialist in the United States Army. His varied assignments took him through Southeast […]
MG William K. Hunzeker enlisted in the regular Army in 1946 and was discharged in 1947. He was commissioned a Quartermaster officer after graduating from The University of Pittsburgh with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He also holds a Master of Education Degree from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. General Hunzeker’s military schooling includes the United […]
Colonel David H. Wayne is known to the Quartermaster Corps as a consummate mentor, Asia specialist, and petroleum expert. Beginning with his graduation from the Quartermaster Officer Basic Course in 1968, Colonel Wayne has served in a variety of petroleum operations and support units beginning as the operations officer of the U.S. Army Petroleum Depot, […]
