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The first of Margo's sources, and the more novel, is the ‘Reports of Persons and Articles Hired’ that were made by the quartermasters of military installations.
As a deployment builds up some quartermasters can find themselves short of kit and that could be the case here.
It was also widely practised on campaign, when a quartermaster would normally travel ahead of his unit to arrange accommodation with the (often less than enthusiastic) civic authorities.
A quartermaster for the First Battalion of the Light Infantry also told the committee that troops went into battle without grenade-launchers, night-vision goggles, desert boots, socks and uniforms.
Of equal, if less spectacular, importance, the Empire's quartermasters and military engineers were the finest in the world.
It later appeared that the quartermaster had ‘borrowed’ these when army supplies ran low after the Battle of Fredericksburg.
During the Civil War Gilmer held a variety of staff positions, including quartermaster and adjutant general of the Hilliard Alabama Legion.
Although these vessels were contracted through the Army quartermaster, a naval officer - Lt George M. Totten - designed them.
Innovation, an unofficial principle of logistics, was applied successfully by Bataan quartermasters.
Unknown to the Pastors however, the pills the quartermasters supplied them were vitamins and not the sedative drugs.
The commissary, a commissioned officer, handled food procurement and, like the quartermaster, on many questions answered directly to his superiors in the national capital rather than to the army commander.
Eight supporting staff - a contingent commander, adjutant, cook, quartermaster, and coach for each discipline - completed the team, and where possible these members also competed as shooters.
Posted with the Quartermaster Corps, he held a number of positions, including the quartermaster at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
Since Southern rails were scarcely equipped to carry even essential supplies, endowing the quartermaster with this authority often meant giving him plenipotentiary power over most railroad activities.
The quartermaster division has three sections: quartermaster; petroleum, oils, and lubricants; and subsistence.
He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
The Tarlac Advance Depot quartermaster, supporting the North Luzon force, broke his supplies up into division-size lots before withdrawing in the hopes that retreating units could grab them on the run.
Our unit was made up of cooks, mechanics, and quartermasters with many of the same military occupational specialties found in traditional CSS units.
He was appointed quartermaster of a militia brigade and contributed his own money for the purpose.
If only the quartermaster had supplied us with ammunition instead of tracts no one could decipher.