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QUARTERMASTER OPERATIONS
of the country in which it is operating. The division quartermaster
must exert every effort to accomplish the collection
and distribution of such supplies without interfering
with or delaying the tactical mission of the combat troops.
Before entering a territory in which the command may be
required to live off the country, the division quartermaster
should obtain all available information concerning its resources.
Upon entering the territory, systematic inspections
of all parts of the locality should be made to verify previous
reports and to gain additional information. Plans and preparations
should be made for the collection and distribution of
supplies to be purchased or requisitioned. Organizations,
except in emergency or when especially authorized to do so,
should not be permitted to seize supplies for their own use.
When practicable, all supplies should be collected at specific
points where they are taken over by the quartermaster and
issued to the command in the usual manner. To simplify
the exploitation of resources of a territory, full use should be
made of local authorities. These authorities ordinarily know
the amount of supplies available within their communities
and the quantities that can be procured. In friendly territory,
local transportation and labor may be hired. In hostile
territory, they may be hired or impressed. In either case,
local transportation and labor will be more difficult to handle
than military, and should be employed only when necessary.
Their most frequent use will be in the collection of supplies
to convenient points where such supplies can be picked up
by organic transport.
c. Gasoline and oil requirements increase the difficulty of
completely supplying a cavalry division from local resources,
especially in hostile territory. These commodities are easily
destroyed. In friendly territory, procurement in sufficient
quantities will be dependent upon the locality.
d. An adequate supply of forage is equally as important to
cavalry as a full supply of rations. Horses quickly become
unserviceable if deprived of adequate forage. There is insufficient
transportation in the cavalry division to carry hay
in addition to other loads. If hay is not otherwise available,
the division quartermaster must be constantly on the lookout
for some suitable substitute. Other grasses and nearly all
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United States. War Department. Quartermaster operations., book, April 29, 1943; Washington D.C.. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9955/m1/95/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.