Quote of the Month: Logistics comprises the means and arrangements which work out the plans
of strategy and tactics. Strategy decides where to act; logistics brings
the troops to this point.
General Antoine Henri Jomini, Precis de l'Art de la Guerre (The Art of
War), 1838
The
Little Steamboat that opened the "Cracker Line"
The Story of the USS Chattanooga, a "home-made" steamboat built
by the Quartermaster Department in October 1863 to carry supplies to General Grant's
starving army at Chattanooga, Tennessee.
14th Quartermaster Detachment Unit suffered the greatest number of casualties of any allied unit
during Operation Desert Storm due to a SCUD Missile attack on
February 25, 1991