NEW AND IMPROVED T-Ration and MRE Development Major Rita Alspach, Susan D. Gagne and Alice Meyer Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – December 1988 Development of the MRE and T-Ration combat rations New and improved! Everyday the phrase comes to us, reflecting changes in requirements, changes in tastes. No aspect of our military lives is exempt, and […]
FEEDING BILLY YANK: Union Rations between 1861 and 1865 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 […]
RETROACTIVE AWARD OF THE PARACHUTE RIGGER BADGE (This message was extracted from the Army Personnel Command website at: http://www-perscom.army.mil/tagd/awards/63.htm) UNCLASSIFIED 130846Z MAY 99 CDR PERSCOM ALEXANDRIA VA/TAPC-PDO-PA// SUBJECT: RECOMMENDED CHANGE TO THE PARACHUTE RIGGER BADGE A. AR 600-8-22, MILITARY AWARDS 25 FEB 95. B. AR 670-1, WEAR AND APPEARANCE OF ARMY UNIFORM AND INSIGNIA, […]
RATIONS Conference Notes Prepared by The Quartermaster School For the Quartermaster General January 1949 THE HISTORY OF RATIONS History has known feeding problems Long before Napoleon uttered his now famous words, “an Army travels on its stomach,” much thought had been given by warring nations to the problem of providing nourishment for their fighting men. […]
Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot; History and Functions By Lieut. Colonel C. S. HAMILTON, Q. M. C. The Quartermaster Review – July-August 1927 THE Jeffersonville Quartermaster Intermediate Depot is located in the outskirts of Jeffersonville, Ind. Its location in Jeffersonville is particularly fortunate. This city, with a population of 15,000, lies just across the Ohio River […]
THE ARMY FAMILY OF RATIONS CW3 Peter Motrynczuk Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Autumn 1991 Short overview of rations used during Operation Desert Shield/Storm 1990-91 The Right Meal, At The Right Place And At The Right Time Before Operation Desert Shield/Storm in Southwest Asia, the Army had a feeding standard of providing all soldiers […]
Quartermaster Corps Branch Insignia Original Design 1896 War Department General Order #40 of 3 September 1896 authorized the sword, key, wheel and eagle as the insignia of the Quartermaster Corps. The insignia was designed by Captain Oscar F. Long at the direction of the Quartermaster General, Brigadier General Richard Batchelder. This insignia is different from […]
Airdrop Support to the Army James S. Emery Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Spring 1991 Airdrop, as Army Systems go, is a relatively new method of delivering people, supplies and equipment into difficult-to-reach or enemy-held areas. Before World War II, the U.S. Army had no airborne/airdrop capability. However, in a few short years beginning in 1940, […]
The Quartermaster Song – 1941 Every branch of service needs a song to identify with. A tune that sticks in your head long after you wish it wouldn’t. With lyrics that fire the imagination and let others know what you’re about. The Quartermaster Corps is no exception. After some 166 years of relative silence in […]
Food Program Research And Development CPT Mark Russelburg Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Summer 1992 The future of Army food is happening now at the Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center in Natick, MA. Home of the Department of Defense Food Program, the center is responsible for all research and development of new and improved food […]
The Food Situation in the European Theatre of Operations MAJ. GEN. ROBERT M.G. LITTLEJOHN, U.S.A. The Quartermaster Review January-February 1944 Supplying food to American forces in Europe during WWII. DIFFERENT peoples have different tastes. Methods of living are also affected by environment. That is why the British Army and the United States Army have […]
‘Hooah’ Logistics CPT Jordan S. Chroman Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Spring 1997 Two C-130s circle the sparkling Mediterranean Sea in lazy arcs, the Italian sky is cloudless, all seems calm and peaceful in this sleepy part of Sicily…suddenly the aircraft ramps open and a small object plummets toward the deep water. It is a rubber […]
The Army Food Service Program: Then and Now Glen C Morris Quartermaster Professional Bulletin-Summer 1992 Ever since the U.S. Army drew its first “line in the sand” at Lexington, MA, in the days of the American Revolution, commanders have been responsible for providing their soldiers with quality subsistence in a variety of environments and tactical […]
Feeding Our Soldiers By MAJ. Louis C. WILSON Q. M. C. The Quartermaster Review – May-June 1928 Overview of Army Rations from the Revolutionary War to 1928 FROM THE wielding of a club by the primitive cave man to the handling of modern scientific and effective implements of warfare by the professional or […]
