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The United States Army Quartermaster Corps, formerly the Quartermaster Department, is a sustainment and former combat service support (CSS) branch of the United States Army. It is also one of three U.S. Army logistics branches, the others being the Transportation Corps and the Ordnance Corps .
In the fall of 2003, the 260th QM BN redeployed after having supported the invasion of Iraq and coalition forces by transporting nearly 80 million US gallons (300,000 m 3) of fuel and driving more than 9 million miles, having had over 10 subordinate national guard and army reserve transportation companies underneath its umbrella of command.
5th Quartermaster Detachment [4] 52nd Quartermaster Detachment [4] 53rd Quartermaster Detachment [4] 62nd Quartermaster Detachment [4] 87th Quartermaster Detachment [5] 255th Quartermaster Detachment [6] 391st Quartermaster Detachment [6]
Aerial view during Ohio River Flood, 1937. At the end of the Civil War, it was the only depot in the Ohio Valley to not be disbanded. [1]In 1871 the U.S. Army decided to build an edifice that would contain all the individual units that had spread all around Jeffersonville.
[118] [119] The German Kampfgruppe Peiper captured 50,000 US gallons (190,000 L) of fuel at Honsfeld, [120] and a fuel dump near Malmedy was set on fire by American troops to prevent its capture, with the loss of 124,000 US gallons (470,000 L), but a nearby dump containing 2,000,000 US gallons (7,600,000 L) was evacuated without loss. [121]
The United States Army Quartermaster Museum, located at Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia, is an AAM accredited museum in the Commonwealth of Virginia. [2] The museum's aim is to preserve and exhibit the history of the Quartermaster Corps, which was formed in 1775. Its collection comprises more than 24,000 items. [3]
Branch Insignia as worn by Quartermaster Officers. In the United States Army, the term is used to describe all supply personnel and units that are part of the United States Army Quartermaster Corps (USQMC) which was formerly the Quartermaster Department. It is a Sustainment, formerly combat service support (CSS), branch of the United States Army.
The cemetery was established on 29 December 1944 by the 609th Quartermaster Company of the U.S. Third Army while Allied Forces were containing the German Ardennes offensive in the winter of 1944/1945. General George S. Patton used the city of Luxembourg as headquarters. Under a U.S.–Luxembourg treaty signed in 1951 the U.S. government was ...