Skills The skills needed for this position are similar to other staff officer positions. S4s must have an expert knowledge of how their branch (ordnance, transportation, or quartermaster) fit into the overall scheme of unit logistics. They must also be knowledgeable about the other two logistical...
The British Army is the land warfare branch of the British Armed Forces. The English Army was founded in 1660, was succeeded in 1707 by the new British Army,[note 2] incorporating the existing Scottish regiments. It was administered by the War Office fro
Aviation was created as a separate Branch in the Army in late 1983, and officer classes started in 1984. Up until that time, officer pilots came from other branches (usually Infantry or Armor), they attended their branch schools and were “detailed” to flight status. Captain James Richardson...
Logistics planners now have an easy tool for completing logistics estimates. The Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM) Planning Data Branch (PDB) has released Operational Logistics (OPLOG) Planner 7.0. CASCOM has refined the OPLOG Planner into a premier planning tool specifically designed to ...
Worse, the planning factors for replacements by branch were badly out of kilter. The original War Department replacement-planning factor for infantry was 64.3 percent of total casualties. Following continued pleas from Europe the factor was raised to 70.3 percent in April 1944. However, the ...
The Army's Quartermaster Branch studies and utilizes modern business methods to ensure the efficient and effective support of soldiers and worldwide Army operations. Skills learned through classroom and on-the-job training vary greatly by MOS, but some examples that are easily transferable to the ci...