The U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps mission is to support the development, production, acquisition, and sustainment of general supply, Mortuary Affairs, subsistence, petroleum and water, and material and distribution management during peace and war to provide combat power to the U.S. Army.

The officer in charge of the branch for doctrine, training, and professional development purposes is the Quartermaster General.

[1] The Quartermaster Corps is the U.S. Army's oldest logistics branch, established 16 June 1775.

In 1802 under President Thomas Jefferson the size of the US Army was reduced with the Quartermaster Department being disbanded.

Quartermaster organizations include field service, general supply, petroleum supply and petroleum pipeline, aerial delivery (rigger), water, and mortuary affairs units.

Down frozen, rutted roads my oxen hauled the meager foods a bankrupt Congress sent me...

Scant rations for the cold and starving troops, gunpowder, salt, and lead.

In war or peace I bring them home and lay them gently down in fields of honor.

The 'chutes that filled the gray Korean skies were mine; I led the endless trains across the beach in Vietnam.

In Desert Storm, I was there when we crossed the border into Iraq...sustaining combat and paying the ultimate sacrifice as we liberated Kuwait.

The Military Order of Saint Martin is awarded by the Association of Quartermasters and not the United States Army.