How To Use Quartermaster In A Sentence

  • The level of ordnance unleashed in a Transformer battle expressed as a ratio of the amount of actual structural damage done to the shapeshifting metal beasties themselves would make any quartermaster weep.
  • There were rats, rats, as big as blooming cats, in the quartermaster's store.
  • Geoffrey as quartermaster issued Joe with three kilos of rice, a couple of dried cabbage, and some dried pork.
  • Petty Officer, U.S. Navy enlisted rate insignia; comparative military ranks ... such as MM for Machinist's Mate, QM for Quartermaster, or YN for Yeoman.
  • He now slept in the same Tent with Charles Des Voeux; his purser, Charles Hamilton Osmer (who was showing signs of pneumonia); William Bell (Erebus's quartermaster); and Phillip Reddington, Sir John's and Captain Fitzjames's former captain of the fo'c'sle. The Terror
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  • They went belowdecks to the quarters of the quartermaster.
  • During the Civil War Gilmer held a variety of staff positions, including quartermaster and adjutant general of the Hilliard Alabama Legion.
  • When "cookhouse" went we straightened our backs, got _some_ of the mud off our boots, and proceeded to take what the gods (in this case the quartermaster) were good enough to give us. The 23rd (Service) Battalion Royal Fusiliers (First Sportsman's) A Record of its Services in the Great War, 1914-1919
  • Instead the Emperor now turned to listen to his Francophobe minister Wratislaw and his Quartermaster-General, Mack, who had “imbibed the true essence of the French national spirit” and preached that “in war the object is to beat the enemy, not merely to avoid being beaten.” THE CAMPAIGNS OF NAPOLEON
  • Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
  • As a deployment builds up some quartermasters can find themselves short of kit and that could be the case here.
  • All this would involve no end of worry for the quartermaster, who even under the most favorable circumstances is sure to be the least appreciated and most abused officer under the commandant himself, and that worthy was simply agasp with relief and joy when he heard Mr. Hayne's astonishing announcement that he would take the quarters out on "Prairie Avenue. The Deserter
  • My late husband was a quartermaster in the Seventies. The Sun
  • Although these vessels were contracted through the Army quartermaster, a naval officer - Lt George M. Totten - designed them.
  • While Darling and his shipmates were busy learning the ACD, the ship was steering course as usual, yet with the help of a new friend to the quartermaster.
  • He was appointed quartermaster of a militia brigade and contributed his own money for the purpose.
  • It is an incontestible fact that he knew Harry Grant, and also that he was quartermaster on the BRITANNIA. In Search of the Castaways
  • Soon CGS Varuna was cast off, with her quartermaster and sailor saluting the two stationary IN survey ships, Sutlej and Jamuna.
  • Two shares went to the captain, one and a half shares to the quartermaster, and one share each to the crew members.
  • In fact, the Coast Guard allowed Sea Scouts with the rank of quartermaster to take the helm of the small boat during recovery operations with the Sockeye.
  • He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
  • Each boat carries about 120 oarsmen whose commander is sailor, sapper, swordsman, quartermaster and general.
  • Mart Judson, indeed, inclined strongly to the opinion that the white-haired old quartermaster was slightly "bughouse," as he expressed it. The Pirate Shark
  • Innovation, an unofficial principle of logistics, was applied successfully by Bataan quartermasters.
  • He now slept in the same Tent with Charles Des Voeux; his purser, Charles Hamilton Osmer (who was showing signs of pneumonia); William Bell (Erebus's quartermaster); and Phillip Reddington, Sir John's and Captain Fitzjames's former captain of the fo'c'sle. The Terror
  • Two shares went to the captain, one and a half shares to the quartermaster, and one share each to the crew members.
  • Under the provisions of the official army regulations, Quartermaster General Myers and company were charged with ‘providing transportation for troops and all army stores, equipage, and supplies.’
  • The Quartermaster sways slightly from too much hydromel, but he still recognizes his expression.
  • It later appeared that the quartermaster had ‘borrowed’ these when army supplies ran low after the Battle of Fredericksburg.
  • Your captain said there were fifty men aboard, himself not included - his first mate, cook, navigator, purser, boatswain, carpenter, quartermaster, and forty-three sailors.
  • Of equal, if less spectacular, importance, the Empire's quartermasters and military engineers were the finest in the world.
  • The book lauds quartermaster general Alexander Lawton's efforts to rationalize the procurement process.
  • Often they became the quartermasters of the movement. Times, Sunday Times
  • In fact, the Coast Guard allowed Sea Scouts with the rank of quartermaster to take the helm of the small boat during recovery operations.
  • The quartermaster was always as important to warfare as the general. Times, Sunday Times
  • Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
  • The Tarlac Advance Depot quartermaster, supporting the North Luzon force, broke his supplies up into division-size lots before withdrawing in the hopes that retreating units could grab them on the run.
  • It was also widely practised on campaign, when a quartermaster would normally travel ahead of his unit to arrange accommodation with the (often less than enthusiastic) civic authorities.
  • The son of a quartermaster in the US Navy, Roche was born in Boston in 1928 and raised during the Depression.
  • The Quartermaster Corps, founded June 1775, was responsible for the construction of training cantonments and more permanent structured camps.
  • This was not difficult for Humphrey Bogart; he was, after all, the man who never made quartermaster in the Navy during World War I.
  • Steering was carried out from a position forward of this by a quartermaster manning the ship's wheel, which connected cables to the tiller flat below.
  • The commissary, a commissioned officer, handled food procurement and, like the quartermaster, on many questions answered directly to his superiors in the national capital rather than to the army commander.
  • Our unit was made up of cooks, mechanics, and quartermasters with many of the same military occupational specialties found in traditional CSS units.
  • We had literally, therefore, no mode, of regulating our course but by once more trusting to the steadiness of the wind; and it was not a little amusing, as well as novel, to see the quartermaster conning the ship by looking at the dogvane. Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1
  • The quartermaster division has three sections: quartermaster; petroleum, oils, and lubricants; and subsistence.
  • Instead it was being used by quartermaster staff. Times, Sunday Times
  • The former Leading Seaman Signalman and the Petty Officer Quartermaster proudly broke the pennant which for the life of the ship will fly at her masthead.
  • The commissary, a commissioned officer, handled food procurement and, like the quartermaster, on many questions answered directly to his superiors in the national capital rather than to the army commander.
  • She's also serving with the Army Reserve's 444th Quartermaster Company in Sioux City.
  • Shortly before noon on Jan. 23, Bucher sat down to a lunch of meatloaf, succotash, mashed potatoes and gravy when Law, the ship's quartermaster, called down to the wardroom.
  • Engine room artificers, boatswains, tugboat crews and quartermasters in the harbour master section (navigation branch) of the Sri Lanka Port Authority began an overtime boycott on November 12.
  • Since Southern rails were scarcely equipped to carry even essential supplies, endowing the quartermaster with this authority often meant giving him plenipotentiary power over most railroad activities.
  • The quartermaster of the battalion in the fort immediately sprang forward, and seizing the fallen flag tore it from its hold and leapt on to the traverse, where he stood under the heavy fire immovable, until a jurymast was rigged and raised in the place of the shattered staff. The War in America
  • In the American Civil War, textile shortages again hampered the Quartermaster Department's efforts to procure tentage.
  • Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
  • He only silently curses the Quartermaster for somehow arranging him to be left with this nagging virago yet again.
  • You look like a regular snipe, Ranke," said Erich Hippke, Quartermaster with the watch after Kurt's, as Kurt climbed out of the fireroom. The Heirs of Babylon
  • Eight supporting staff - a contingent commander, adjutant, cook, quartermaster, and coach for each discipline - completed the team, and where possible these members also competed as shooters.
  • He was often breveted for gallantry, and became quartermaster general of the U.S. Army.
  • After looking about and consulting with friends, among them my classmate Major Stewart Van Vliet, quartermaster at the fort, I concluded to accept the proposition of Mr. Ewing, and accordingly the firm of Sherman & Ewing was duly announced, and our services to the public offered as attorneys-at-law. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
  • This apportions the body's food supplies rather as a grudging quartermaster distributes equipment in a forces barracks. Fats, Nutrition and Health
  • Unknown to the Pastors however, the pills the quartermasters supplied them were vitamins and not the sedative drugs.
  • On May 17, 1917, Col.I. W. Littell, of the Regular Army, was detailed to assemble and direct an organization to be known as the cantonment division of the Quartermaster Corps, whose duties were to consist of providing quarters and camps for the training and housing of the New World's War Events, Vol. II
  • If only the quartermaster had supplied us with ammunition instead of tracts no one could decipher.
  • Then I caught a glimpse of the quartermaster whirling the spokes of our wheel, and over went our helm to lay us athwart the forefoot of the 'Serapis', where we might rake and rush her decks. Richard Carvel — Complete
  • Posted with the Quartermaster Corps, he held a number of positions, including the quartermaster at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
  • He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
  • A quartermaster works on Moreau's LCAC as a navigator.
  • Since Southern rails were scarcely equipped to carry even essential supplies, endowing the quartermaster with this authority often meant giving him plenipotentiary power over most railroad activities.
  • The army's Quartermaster Corps, unaccustomed to providing for the needs of a wartime force, had disbursed flimsy, floorless tents; as a result, Grant and the rest of the four - thousand - man force slept in the cold mud, protected from the elements by thin woolen blankets. 'The Training Ground: Grant, Lee, Sherman, and Davis in the Mexican War, 1846-1848'
  • A quartermaster for the First Battalion of the Light Infantry also told the committee that troops went into battle without grenade-launchers, night-vision goggles, desert boots, socks and uniforms.
  • Typically, it's a boatswain's mate or a quartermaster running the ship, while an engineer and one or two seaman line handlers assist in the shipboard operations.
  • My father was the sergeant quartermaster, and had to wear shoes because he always fell over in boots. Times, Sunday Times
  • Before Crook, the army quartermaster issued a single size and design of aparejo, or pack-cushion, regardless of the size and shape of the mule. Once They Moved Like the Wind
  • What has keepit me from being an officer, that had served my country in twa battles when oor quartermaster hadna enlisted? Lob Lie-by-the-Fire: or The Luck of Lingborough
  • From nurses to barmen and quartermasters to waiters, more than 70 ex-crew gathered at the Cowherds pub on the Common - and there were plenty of tales to be shared.
  • Your captain said there were fifty men aboard, himself not included - his first mate, cook, navigator, purser, boatswain, carpenter, quartermaster, and forty-three sailors.
  • The first of Margo's sources, and the more novel, is the ‘Reports of Persons and Articles Hired’ that were made by the quartermasters of military installations.

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