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	Quartermaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Quartermaster is a term usually referring to a military unit which specializes in supplying and provisioning troops, or to an individual who does the same.
		The Quartermaster is assisted by the Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant (RQMS) and a staff of storemen.
		The QM, RQMS and storemen are drawn from the regiment or corps in which they work, not from the Royal Logistic Corps, which is responsible for issuing and transporting supplies to them.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/quartermaster (336 words)

	Warrant Officer - Insignia History - Quartermaster Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The coat of arms is: Buff, a chevron Azure between a short sword point down bendwise sinister surmounted by a helmet contourne Argent, a bundle of arrows Sable surmounted by a garb Or, and a quill bendwise of the third surmounted by a key wards to base bendwise sinister of the fifth.
		The dark blue chevron represents valor and alludes to the fact that the Quartermaster Corps is the foundation of logistics.
		In 1851 the pompon on the caps of all members of the staff corps consisted of the lower two-thirds in buff and the upper third of the color of the corps.
	www.1800goguard.com /warrantofficer/warrant_history_wohistory_92.html (714 words)

	Quartermaster Coat of Arms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Coat of Arms for the Quartermaster Corps was authorized by the U.S. Army Institute of Heraldry effective 16 June 1994.
		The Quartermaster Shield is Buff the primary color traditionally associated with the Quartermaster Corps.
		The crest in this Coat of Arms is the traditional Quartermaster Corps branch insignia with the eagle in a slightly different configuration known historically as the "Regimental Eagle." It is identical to the Quartermaster Corps Regimental insignia that each Quartermaster Soldier wears on his or her dress uniform.
	www.qmfound.com /arms.htm (477 words)

	Quartermaster Corps
		Quartermasters in the Pacific had trouble getting sufficient reserves of clothing where it was needed, mainly because the U.S. clothing and textile industry could not easily obtain the necessary raw goods from scarce commodities.
		The Quartermaster Corps trained thousands of soldiers during World War II, filling specialized roles in every theater of operation from the Pacific and China-Burma-India theaters to North Africa, Italy, central and northern Europe.
		When the war was over, the Quartermaster Corps had recovered and buried nearly 250,000 soldiers in their temporary cemeteries all over the world.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1714.html (1322 words)

	Army Quartermaster Museum
		Since 1957 the Quartermaster Museum has preserved the history and heritage of the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, the Army's oldest logistic branch.
		To collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret the history of the Quartermaster Corps from its birth in 1775 to the present.
		To this end, the Museum has collected over 23,000 artifacts relating to the Corps' history and has assembled thousands of documents relating to Quartermaster Corps history.
	www.qmmuseum.lee.army.mil (288 words)

	Lieutenant General Andrew T. McNamara, USA
		Upon transferring to the Quartermaster Corps in 1937, he served as assistant quartermaster of the Fifth Infantry Division during its pre-war Louisiana maneuvers in 1940, as assistant construction quartermaster at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and as supply officer, Quartermaster Training Command, Fort Lee, Virginia.
		He later became Quartermaster of the II Corps in North Africa, where he was awarded the Legion of Merit for exceptional service in providing food, gasoline, and other quartermaster supplies to fast-moving U.S. forces in Tunisia and for adapting quartermaster transportation facilities to move both troops and ammunition.
		General McNamara was named Quartermaster of the First Army in September 1943, winning the Bronze Star Medal for his part in planning quartermaster support for the invasion of Normandy, and the Distinguished Service Medal for directing quartermaster operations of the First Army during its drive across France, Belgium, and Germany.
	www.dla.mil /history/directors/mcnamara.htm (815 words)

	Short History of the Quartermaster Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Quartermaster Department, he instituted an improved system of property accountability and experimented with new modes of transportation, including the use of canal boats in the east and camel caravans in the desert southwest, and worked some of the earliest railroads.
		In 1950, the Quartermaster Corps moved swiftly to supply the United States and their UN allies sent to defend South Korea from the Communist North.
		That same year the Corps assumed a new mission- supply by air -which often proved crucial to the sustainment of troops on the Korean peninsula.
	www.qmfound.com /short.htm (834 words)

	War Dogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Initially the Quartermaster Corps placed the War Dog Program in its Plant Protection Branch of the Inspection Division, on the theory that dogs would be used chiefly with guards at civilian war plants.
		The Quartermaster Corps trained dog handlers, most of which were Quartermaster soldiers, as well as dogs and was responsible for developing all doctrine for training and use of War Dogs.
		From 1956 to 1957 the Quartermaster Corps was called upon to procure dogs for the Air Force as sentry dogs to relieve manpower shortages in guarding airfields, materiel and equipment.
	www.qmfound.com /K-9.htm (1929 words)

	1916 Bakery Company
		As a unit of the Quartermaster Corps, bakery companies reported to the commander of the line of communications.
		He acts as first sergeant and as quartermaster sergeant of the company, keeps the company records, keeps records of subsistence stores received and expended in making, makes issues to organizations, prepares bread-count statement on the last day of the month.
		It is interesting to note that the Quartermaster Corps made few changes to the equipment allowance for one bakery unit in World War II.
	www.seabeecook.com /cooks/army/bakeryco_1916.htm (875 words)

	U.S. MILITARY BODY ARMOR
		The Quartermaster Corps began development on a new type of vest utilizing flexible laminated nylon duck, recommended by the Ordnance Corps as the best of all lightweight flexible ballistic materials.
		At the conclusion of the test in Korea, the Marine Corps continued development of the new-type Doron vest, which was subsequently standardized for issue to Marines as the M-1951.
		The Army Quartermaster Corps continued development of its all-nylon vest, since Ordnance Corps tests continued to affirm that the flexible nylon was superior ballistically to Doron.
	www.olive-drab.com /od_soldiers_gear_body_armor_korea.php (1098 words)

	The Quartermaster
		The Quartermaster’s Department was also responsible for keeping the sealed patterns used in acquiring new contracts for uniforms and equipment, and provided supplies for the construction and maintenance of the United States Military Railroads.
		The Regimental Quartermaster had, under his direction, a Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant charged with the responsibility of storing and transporting the property assigned to the Regimental Quartermaster for the Regiment.
		The rank of Company Quartermaster Sergeant was not a command position, although he was required to know the drills, and the duties and responsibilities of the line NCO’s.
	www.15thnewyorkcavalry.org /the_quartermaster.htm (682 words)

	Lemelson Center: Articles: Outfitted to Fight: Innovations from the Quartermaster Corps
		From mukluks and arctic sleeping bags to rot-resistant boots and mosquito-proof jungle hammocks, the Quartermaster Corps combined new materials with innovative thinking during World War II to create gear for the combat soldier's life in the field.
		The Quartermaster Corps, the Army's traditional supply and service branch, was faced with the enormous task of outfitting a force that would eventually total more than 8.3 million troops.
		Quartermaster RandD personnel responded by seeking workable substitutes among less critical materials, e.g., using rayon for silk in the dress uniform, and tinned steel in the place of stainless steel for tableware and kitchen utensils.
	invention.smithsonian.org /resources/online_articles_detail.aspx?id=323 (1126 words)

	The Army Green Uniform - March 1968 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Quartermaster Corps objected that this would leave soldiers without an adequate combat uniform and the Army would be as unprepared for emergency as it was in World War II (10).
		The Quartermaster Corps had applied Quarpel to field and combat clothing and the results confirmed their hopes that the treatment could provide a rain garment which was efficiently water-repellent, washable and comfortable.
		The fabric which the Quartermaster Corps recommended for the lightweight Green Uniform was a 9-ounce blend of a polyester fiber and wool.
	www.qmfound.com /Army_Green_Uniform.htm (8186 words)

	300th Quartermaster Battalion (Corps)
		The mission of the 300th Quartermaster Battalion is to provide logistical support at the corps level, with an approximate strength of the battalion of 420 soldiers.
		At activiation, the 300th Quartermaster Battalion was comprised of the 212th Transportation Company from Chattanooga, the 591st Transportation Detachment from Chattanooga, the 418th Quartermaster Detachment from Oak Ridge, and the 639th Transportation Company from Kingsport.
		The Quartermaster Corps mandate is to provide supplies and services to our courageous troops, and, more than this, to get them to the right place at the right time; this is an increasingly complicated, increasingly sophisticated task, but can be highly rewarding in terms of personal satisfaction and sense of achievement.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/army/300qm.htm (317 words)

	The Role of the Quartermaster Corps in the Revolution in Military Logistics
		he Quartermaster Corps is at the forefront of the Army's Revolution in Military Logistics.
		While the basic Quartermaster missions to sustain soldiers and support operations will not change, the ways in which these missions are accomplished will change significantly.
		With the advent and development of these and other key initiatives, the Quartermaster Corps has established itself firmly at the forefront of the Revolution in Military Logistics and is serving as a dynamic change agent in the Army's inexorable march toward the future.
	www.almc.army.mil /ALOG/issues/JulAug99/MS417.htm (2101 words)

	Henry G. Sharpe, Major General, United States Army
		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.
		Sharpe was so enthusiastic about establishing a consolidated supply corps that Quartermaster General James B Aleshire called him the ''father of consolidation.'' Many of Sharpe's friends recommended that he be selected to head the newly created Quartermaster Corps in 1912.
		The Quartermaster Corps and the War Department generally were unprepared for World War I. The supply bureaus within the Quartermaster Corps were eager to procure and ship as quickly as possible the enormous quantities of supplies for which they were responsible.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /hgsharpe.htm (1062 words)

	Combat Support in Korea: PART VII Quartermaster Corps
		Quartermaster requirements for the landing were 22 days of class I (7 days operational, 15 days class B rations); 30 days maintenance factor of class II and class IV supplies; and 30 days of class III.
		On arrival at their plane the quartermaster crew obtained the white loading card, checked the cargo to be sure it was safe, and then notified the crew chief they were ready.
		We learned that the quartermaster's shower and clothing exchange was a great economy in spite of the additional equipment necessary to allow the men to bathe and to launder their clothing.
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/korea/22_1_7.htm (21545 words)

	GoArmy.com > Careers & Jobs > Quartermaster Officer (92A)
		The Quartermaster Corps is the logistical center point for all Army operations.
		Quartermaster Officer training includes completion of the Quartermaster Officer Basic Course (QOBC), where you will learn leadership skills, tactics, maintenance and operational aspects of weapons and vehicles used in a Quartermaster platoon.
		Quartermaster Officers may continue in the Operations career field, serving in the Quartermaster Corps at ever increasing levels of leadership and responsibility.
	www.goarmy.com /JobDetail.do?id=308 (379 words)

	The U.S. Army Professional Writing Collection
		The Quartermaster Corps will lead the way by transitioning the distribution pipeline for providing materiel and services to meet the challenges of Army Transformation.
		Quartermasters will continue to spearhead the development of new technologies, methodologies and collaborative efforts among Army, joint forces and industry partners and also embrace change to meet future logistic challenges.
		Quartermasters will fulfill their mission to support the needs of the warfighter by "hearing the call" and actively participating in Army Transformation toward an Objective Force.
	www.army.mil /professionalwriting/volumes/volume1/july_2003/7_03_3v1.html (1505 words)

	Women's Army Corps Training Center Fort Lee, Virginia 1948-1954 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Members of the Corps performed with distinction and valor in a wide range of duties both in the overseas theaters of war and in the United States.
		WAC personnel were in high demand in the Quartermaster Corps as indicated by the Quartermaster General, Major General E. Gregory who said, "Personnel of the Women's Army Corps have become an integral part of this organization and we now have unfilled requisitions from QM installations requesting more WAC personnel.
		The Women's Army Corps Training Center at Fort Lee was established June 15, 1948, three days after integration of the woman's armed services into the regular armed forces of the United States.
	www.awm.lee.army.mil /wac_lee.htm (1155 words)

	K-9 Corps
		Reception and training were transferred to the Quartermaster Remount Branch, while Dogs for Defense continued successfully to solicit donations of dogs from all of the 48 states.
		In the fall of 1942, a K-9 Quartermaster Corps training center was established at Fort Robinson, Nebraska.
		The Quartermaster Corps trained the dog handlers, most of whom were quartermaster soldiers.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1728.html (1244 words)

	UMC Army ROTC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		As the "Sustainer of the Army", the Quartermaster Corps plans and directs activities which provide soldiers with food, water, petroleum, repair parts, weapons systems, and a multitude of field services.
		As a Quartermaster officer you'll make use of the most modern equipment and technology to solve the logistical problems of today and tomorrow. With these tools, you'll create the most effective and efficient method of providing soldiers with the right items, at the right place, at the right time.
		Given the Quartermaster Corps's diverse and demanding mission, you can be assured of finding yourself in a challenging and rewarding position from the very beginning.
	armyrotc.missouri.edu /careers/quartermaster.html (236 words)

	Quartermaster Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Quartermaster Corps, Fort Lee, VA Whether you're considering making the Army a career or looking for an opportunity to gain leadership and management experience, the Quartermaster Corps is for you.
		As the "Sustainer of soldiers since 1775," the Quartermaster Corps plans and directs activities which provide soldiers with food, water, petroleum, repair parts, weapon systems and a multitude of field services.
		Given the Quartermaster Corps' diverse and demanding mission, you can be assured of finding yourself in a challenging and rewarding position from the very beginning.
	webpages.marshall.edu /~fox27/rotc/quarter.htm (233 words)

	Dennis Marco's School of Dog Training - Dog Training and Behavior Modification in San Francisco
		The functions of the Quartermaster Corps expanded still further in the fall of 1942 when the Corps was made responsible for procuring and training dogs for the Navy and the Coast Guard.
		Trained sentry dogs were issued by the Quartermaster Corps to hundreds of military installations of various types, such as coastal fortifications., harbor defenses, arsenals, ammunition dumps, airfields, and depots as well as to industrial plants.
		With the discontinuance of the Quartermaster Remount Depot System in 1948 the training responsibility was transferred from the Quartermaster Corps to the Army Field Forces and the one remaining dog training center, located at Front Royal, Virginia, was relocated at Fort Riley, Kansas.
	www.dmarcodogtraining.com /Marco/Pages/war_dogs.html (12998 words)

	Order of Saint Martin US Army Quartermaster Corps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On 7 February 1997 the Quartermaster Corps established the Military Order of Saint Martin, a suspended medallion similar to the Artillery/Air Defense Order of Saint Barbara.
		The first presentations of the Order of Saint Martin were made at the Quartermaster Regimental Ball at Fort Lee, Virginia in June 1997.
		Saint Martin--the Patron Saint of the Quartermaster Regiment--was the most popular saint in France during the great antiquity and the early Middle Ages.
	www.associationofquartermasters.com /osm/martin.htm (343 words)

	Harry Lovejoy Rogers, Major General, United States Army
		When the Pay Department was merged with the Quartermaster and Subsistence Departments to form the Quartermaster Corps in August of 1912, Rogers was assigned as Chief of the Finance Division, Office of the Quartermaster General.
		The Quartermaster Corps was charged with the purchase and procurement of all supplies of standard manufacture, and of all supplies common to two or more branches, and with their storage and issue.
		The Quartermaster Corps was to be composed of permanently commissioned officers who were to be specialists instead of men detailed from other branches of the service.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /hlrogers.htm (879 words)

	The Quartermaster Corps
		The Quartermaster Corps has been under fire ever since the beachhead was established, and still is. Its casualties from enemy action have been relatively high.
		Around seventy percent of the Quartermaster troops on the beachhead are colored boys.
		In the Quartermaster Corps they've begun a system of sending the key men away after about six weeks on the beachhead and giving them a week's rest at some nice place like Sorrento.
	www.journalism.indiana.edu /news/erniepyle/quartermaster.html (816 words)

	The Quartermaster Heraldic Section
		The purpose was to foster Army tradition and esprit de corps.
		The first unit to wear such an insignia was the 51st Artillery, Coast Artillery Corps which received approval for wear from the War Department on 18 March 1922.
		The Heraldic Section of the Office of the Quartermaster General was responsible for the research, design and development of distinctive unit insignia, shoulder sleeve insignia (patches), flags, medals, seals, coats of arms and other heraldic items for the Army.
	www.incywincy.com /default?catid=362&cached=www.qmfound.com/heraldry.htm (984 words)

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