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Encyclopedia > Quartermaster general

A Quartermaster general is the staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army. A General Staff is a group of professional military officers who act in a staff or administrative role under the command of a general officer. ... A nations army is its military, or more specifically, all of its land forces. ...


In the United States, the Quartermaster general has the rank of brigadier general and is the chief officer in the quartermaster's department. A Brigadier General, or one-star general, is the lowest rank of general officer in the United States and some other countries, ranking just above Colonel and just below Major General. ... Quartermaster is a term usually referring to a military unit which specializes in supplying and provisioning troops, or to an individual who does the same. ...


In the United Kingdom, the Quartermaster-General to the Forces (QMG) is one of the most senior generals in the British Army. Each formation has a Deputy Quartermaster-General (DQMG), Assistant Quartermaster-General (AQMG) or Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG), depending on its size. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British military. ... This article is about the military unit. ...


In the German Army, while a Quartiermeister is a non-commissioned officer in charge of supplies, a Generalquartiermeister does not deal with supplies, but with operational command. He is the most senior officer below an Army's Chief of Staff [1]. For example, Erich Ludendorff was Paul von Hindenburg's Generalquartiermeister at the Oberste Heeresleitung ("Supreme Army Command") during the First World War Heer is the German word for army. ... A non-commissioned officer (sometimes noncommissioned officer), or NCO, is an enlisted member of an armed force who has been delegated leadership or command authority by a commissioned officer. ... The term Chief of Staff can refer to: The White House Chief of Staff, the highest-ranking member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States. ... General Erich Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff (sometimes given incorrectly as Erich von Ludendorff) (April 9, 1865 – December 20, 1937, Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany) was a German Army officer, noted as a general during World War I. Ludendorff was born in Kruszewnia near Posen, Prussia (now Poznań, Poland). ... Paul von Hindenburg President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg (full name Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg) (October 2, 1847 – August 2, 1934) was a German Field Marshal and statesman. ... WWI redirects here. ...


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Quartermaster general - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (263 words)
A Quartermaster general is the staff officer in charge of supplies for a whole army.
In the United States, the Quartermaster General is a general officer who is responsible for the Quartermaster Corps, the Quartermaster branch of the United States Army.
The office of the Quartermaster General was established by resolution of the Continental Congress on 16 June 1775, but the position was not filled until 14 August 1775.
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