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QUARTERMASTER FIELD MANUAL
are designed for use over unimproved as well as improved
roads. The truck platoons move supplies, transport troops,
and such division reserve of class I supplies, small arms and
field artillery ammunition as may be prescribed by the division
commander. They also supplement ammunition carrying
vehicles of units within the division. These platoons
form the nucleus for the division motor pool. The quartermaster
supply officer and unit supply officers cooperate
closely in effecting economy of transportation in the distribution
of all supplies.
r. Bivouacs.-(1) Owing to the danger of hostile air attacks,
the various activities of the quartermaster company are dispersed.
With present day communication and transportation,
the division quartermaster and his staff can perform
their duties and make such inspections as are necessary
without having the division quartermaster office and company
command post in close proximity to all elements of the
company. The division quartermaster's office may be located
in or near the rear echelon of division headquarters. The
company headquarters is bivouacked in the general vicinity
of the division quartermaster's office, and the service platoon
is usually bivouacked near the railhead. The truck units may
be located either near the railhead or the ammunition supply
point. If these installations are widely separated, it may
be advisable to bivouac one unit near each installation.
Truck units are bivouacked so as to conceal their vehicles
from air observation. This concealment can be secured by
placing the trucks in garages of the cities and towns in
which the units are bivouacked, or along city streets with a
considerable number of shade trees, or they may be parked
along country roads under trees supplemented by camouflage.
Vehicles also may be bivouacked in or near edges of
woods or patches of trees, and every effort is made to secure
within each group of trucks as great a dispersion as possible.
When placing vehicles under trees, every effort is made to
conceal the vehicle not only from overhead observation and
photography, but from oblique aerial observation and photography
as well.
(2) Further protection may be had by the proper use of
camouflage such as nets, branches of trees, and brush. By
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