Quartermaster Corps (United States Army) The United States Army
Quartermaster Corps is a Sustainment (formerly combat service
support (CSS)) branch of the United States Army. It is also one
of three U.S. Army logistics branches, the others being the
Transportation Corps and the Ordnance Corps. The Quartermaster
Corps is the U.S. Army's oldest logistics branch, established 16
June 1775. On that date the Second Continental Congress passed a
resolution providing for "one Quartermaster General of the grand
army and a deputy, under him, for the separate army." From 1775
to 1912 this organization was known as the Quartermaster
Department. In 1912, Congress consolidated the former
Subsistence, Pay, and Quartermaster Departments to create the
Quartermaster Corps. Quartermaster units and soldiers have
served in every U.S. military operation from the Revolutionary
War to current operations in Iraq (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and
Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom). The function of the
Quartermaster Corps is to provi