Quote of the Month: Sea
power can get us to enemy territory, air power can carry war into the heart,
of enemy territory—it
can weaken his powers to resist—but the man in the mud, the fellow with
the bayonet in his hands, will deliver the final blow. His courage, his
stamina, his devotion together with that of his brothers on sea and in the
air are the ingredients of victory. But only good logistics will make
it possible for them to gain that victory.
Lieutenant
General Brehon Somervell,
Chief of Army
Service Forces, May 1944
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
