WHOLESALE RESUPPLY BY SKY Quartermaster Professional Bulletin – Summer 1990 New Cumberland Army Depot (NCAD), PA, participated in the U.S. Army’s Operation Dragon Tail recently by delivering supplies directly from the wholesale level to awaiting soldiers on the ground at Fort Bragg, NC. “This is the first time an airborne operation was conducted by the […]
Exercise “Long Horn”, Joint Army-Air Force Maneuver, Sgt. Gene Buswell, Fort Bragg, NC, ties the riggers-seals on a reserve chute. Sgt. Andrew Skalas “makes-up” the harness of a chute for storing, and Sgt. Wilfred Sweeney, Cambridge, Mass., initials Form #46, the chute log book. The men are of the 82nd Airborne Division Quartermaster Parachute Maintenance […]
Return To: Aerial Delivery & Rigger History Page Quartermaster Aerial Delivery; The Story of the Airborne Rigger Compiled from the Archives of the US Army Quartermaster Museum and oral interviews by K. Born Table of Contents Introduction In the spring of 1950, with the start of the Korean War, the Quartermaster Corps was formally assigned […]
US Army Quartermaster Foundation Fort Lee, Virginia 1994 1995 10th Forward Support Battalion 503rd Support Battalion 543rd Support Group 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 25th Forward Support Battalion 302nd Forward Support Battalion 90th Quartermaster Railhead Company 259th Field Services Company 607th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company 4th Quartermaster Detachment 2001 2002 2003 Support Squadron, 3d Armored […]
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Subsistence and Army Cooks History Page World War II Kitchen Vietnam Era Chow Line Subsistence and Cooks Historical Photos General History World War I Field Messing The Army Food Service Program: Then and Now This 1992 article give a short history of Army Food Service Fresh Food for the Army, 1775-1950 Procurement of fresh food […]
Officers and Board of Directors: 2014 Army Quartermaster Foundation, Inc. Mrs. Shirley Barrett Mr. James Barros MG Richard E. Beale, Jr.. Ms. Nancy Briggs Mr. Orriss W. Burnett Ms. Paulette Bordwell MAJ Frederick (Fritz) J. Eley Mr. Olin Ferguson COL Clinton Hodder COL Gary Juskowiak LTC David Lee Mr. Charles Lundy COL Eugene Manner COL […]
February 2, 2017 Josh 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 with one Meal, […]
April 10, 2017 Josh 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 on the breast […]
April 10, 2017 Josh Though the Quartermaster supply function is as old as the first army that took the field, the term “Quartermaster” seems to have come into general usage with the rise of standing armies in the 16th century. Derived from the Old French quartier and the Latin quartarius, the term literally means master […]
January 19, 2017 Josh David B. Roath CPT Robert A. Jensen Quartermater Professional Bulletin – Summer 1996 Europe’s longest conflict since World War II started with a flare-up in Yugoslavia’s northwestern tip. It was enough to shock many. Much worse was to come. Exactly 1,606 days passed between those first shots in the Yugoslav republic […]
January 10, 2017 Josh Rigger Association Red Hat Chapter, Association of Quartermasters Aerial Delivery & Field Services Department (U.S. Army Rigger School) Airborne & Special Operations Museum (Fayetteville, NC) Vietnam Airdrop History Background on airdrop units in Vietnam British Air Dispatch Association (British Riggers) Josh Click here for more information on the 16 Aug 99 ceremony […]
April 10, 2017 Josh 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 […]
May 12, 2016 Josh 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 Pennsylvania countryside, the great Virginian […]
