Rigger’s Pledge I will keep constantly in mind that until men grow wings their parachutes must be dependable. I will pack every parachute as though I am to jump with it myself, and will stand ready to jump with any parachute which I have certified as properly packed. I will remember always that the other […]
Emerging Technology in Airdrop Operations CPT Stephen R. Davis CPT Mary E. Denniston CPT Edward F. Ehlers CPT John B. Hinson CPT Maria Ogden Quartermaster Professional Bulletin-Autumn 1997 Operation Provide Promise was the largest humanitarian airdrop operation in the history of the United States. Relief supplies to the former Republic of Yugoslavia (Bosnia-Herzegovina) started in […]
Rigger Clip Art Courtesy of the Air Delivery & Field Services Department U.S. Army Quartermaster School and Center, Fort Lee, Virginia Return To: Aerial Delivery & Quartermaster Riggers Page
Famous Former Quartermasters Former members of the Quartermaster Corps include U.S. Presidents, military heroes and prominent citizens. From the American Revolution to about 1912, officers and noncommissioned officers were detailed from the Infantry, Artillery and Cavalry to the Quartermaster Department. With the expansion of the Armed Forces during the various conflicts of the 20th Century […]
5,000 Club 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 […]
Quartermaster Corps Regimental Coat of Arms The Coat of Arms for the Quartermaster Corps was authorized by the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry effective 16 June 1994. A Coat of Arms has always been an object of pride which symbolizes the past deeds of the unit it represents. The coat of arms appears […]
Subsistence in Space CPT Nanette Gallant Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Summer 1992 Editor’s Note: The Army has been involved with the space program since its earliest days. Until 1984 the Army assumed only a minor supporting role through the Research, Development and Engineering Center in Natick, MA. With the advent of the space shuttle, and […]
Airdrop Equipment Developments Norman P. Bruneau Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Spring 1991 Airdrop is a proven way to provide logistical support when fighting, outnumbered, against an enemy with significantly shorter supply lines. This realization drives development of new airdrop equipment. This realization also prompted deployment of airdrop equipment to Saudi Arabia in 1990 for just […]
Operation of the Airborne Division Parachute Maintenance Company By Major Thomas R. Cross, Inf. Division Parachute Officer, 11th Airborne Division The Quartermaster Review, September-October 1950 Article written by the officer credited with designing the first rigger badge about one of the first new Quartermaster Divisional Parachute Maintenance Companies. Also talks about the origin of […]
Operational Rations Current and Future March 1963 Prepared by: Armed Forces Food and Container Institute 1819 W. Pershing Road Chicago 9, Illinois Contents Preface iv Introduction 1 General Feeding 4 Standard B Ration 4 Ration, Small Detachment, 5 Person 6 Meal Combat, Individual 8 Special Feeding 10 Food Packet, In-Flight, Individual 10 Ration, Individual, Trail, […]
I am Quartermaster My story is enfolded in the history of this nation. Sustainer of Armies… My forges burned at Valley Forge. Down frozen, rutted roads my oxen hauled the meager foods a bankrupt Congress sent me… Scant rations for the cold and starving troops, Gunpowder, salt, and lead. In 1812 we sailed to war […]
Stuttgart, Germany, PFC Roy M. Moore, Everett, Mass., and PFC Thomas Fallon, New York City, members of the 557th Quartermaster Aerial Supply Company, Eckterdinger Air Base, Germany, attaching a G-1 parachute to the A-7 container used to drop small supplies, medical items, tools, etc., to ground forces maneuvering in the field. 13 February 1952, U.S. […]
Nathanael Greene and the Supply of the Continental Army By Edward Payson The Quartermaster Review May-June 1950 It was March 1778 and on the hills of Valley Forge, rising above the Sehuylkill River, lay the winter quarters of George Washington ‘s Continental Army. On this scenically beautiful spot, commanding a broad panorama of the fertile […]
years at the Quartermaster Association conventions you have heard several dissertations on the organization and mission of the Market Center System, which has its headquarters in Chicago. The Market Center system was first organized in 1941 as a procurement system for fresh fruits and vegetables for the Army. As you know, other commodities were added […]
