As for how well we are doing on common items of supplies and equipment, you committee members may have gathered many impressions; from the quartermaster picture, the cooperation of cross servicing between the Army, Navy, and Air is manifested for quartermaster type items in the following manner:

CROSS-SERVICING IN QUARTERMASTER-TYPE ITEMS

1. Subsistence is furnished the Air Force and Navy land-base personnel as well as the Army. Our job includes making up requirements; the budget, as far as the Army personnel is concerned, requisitioning, storage and issue at our depots to all three services. Subsistence is furnished the Air Force and Navy on a reimbursable basis.

2. Quartermaster procured petroleum products are supplied to the Air Force and Navy on a reimbursable basis. Military Sea Transportation Service ships are serviced at ports in Germany, with fuel through a bunkering service contract. These servicing costs are charged to occupation. In other words, paid for by the Germans.

3. Equipment is made available to the Air Force and Navy on a reimbursable basis at the request of either department.

4. Storage space available to the quartermaster of this theater is utilized by the Air Force to the extent of approximately 400,000 square feet, to preclude duplication of facilities. To somewhat reduce the drain on our national resources at home, we are buying some things in Germany, France, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, and Italy. During the past year we have spent slightly over $57,000,000 for quartermaster supplies and equipment. Of this sum, 60 percent of that, or $34,000,000, came from occupation costs. Forty percent, or $23,000,000, came from appropriated funds, appropriated by the Congress of the United States. With the money from the occupation costs we have bought household, office, and troop furniture, as well as equipment for the troops, such as kitchen and mess items, and paper products. With the money appropriated by Congress, we have purchased supplies, as I indicated, amounting to $23,000,000. Of this sum, over

$10,000,000 was spent for food, mainly eggs, butter and milk, fresh fruits and vegetables. Approximately $13,000,000 was spent for blankets, mattresses, cots, sheets, pillow cases, etc. Of all these items of equipment in the last group I mentioned, they were needed to supply the increased forces, mainly the Fourth Division, the Second Armored, the Forty-third, and the Twenty-eighth, the latter just now arrived.

I will be followed by Lt. Col. Paul Flynn, who is Chief of the Requirements and Distribution Group. This group is a part of my office but, due to lack of space in Heidelberg, is physically located at Giessen.

Colonel Flynn will go over the manner in which we compute requirements and how we control and distribute our stocks in Europe. In his talk, Colonel Flynn will discuss the normal theater stocks. In addition, we are stocking France, strategic stocks equivalent to 60 days of items for combat, except for gasoline, which is 40 days for the Ground Forces and 60 days for the Air Force. Colonel Flynn.

STATEMENT OF LT. COL. E. P. FLYNN, COMMANDING OFFICER OF THE 7856TH QUARTERMASTER REQUIREMENTS AND DISTRIBUTION GROUP

Lieutenant Colonel FLYNN. We have prepared three 20-minute presentations. I shall discuss the mission, organization, and functions of the Requirements and Distribution Group, the quartermaster stock control point.

Major Whalen of my staff will discuss the manner in which we employ modern methods of machine accounting in our requirements and requisitioning operations.

Major Dean of the Munich Quartermaster Depot will discuss the management of stocks at the depot and station level.

FUNCTIONS OF QUARTERMASTER STOCK CONTROL POINT

The 7856th Quartermaster Requirements and Distribution Group. is, as General Middleswart pointed out, an operational element of the Quartermaster Division, European Command, although it is located here in Giessen Germany. Frequently referred to as the central quartermaster stock control point, its major functions are shown as follows: 1. Determination of command control levels, or requisitioning objectives.

2. Determination of command requirements for every quartermaster item authorized to be issued to troops in the command.

3. Preparation of command requisitions and the submission of these requisitions to the Overseas Supply Division, New York Port of Embarkation.

4. Distribution of comand supplies received at European ports of entry at Bremerhaven and in France.

Each of these functions dovetail and they form the framework about which the group is built.

The Requirements and Distribution Group is organized as illustrated on this chart (chart II). You will note that the group has five commodity sections: Clothing and Equipage, General Supplies, Maintenance Supply, Subsistence, and Petroleum.

Commodities are assigned to each of these sections by Federal class of supply and each of the functions mentioned are performed by the sections, which are staffed with requirements specialists and property supply clerks trained in the particular Federal classes of supply assigned thereto.

The Supply Control Section and the Logistics Compilations Section are the coordinating agencies within the group. Their aim is to insure uniform application of supply control policies and machine methods and procedures by the five commodity sections.

The adjutant and headquarters detachment are purely administrative.

The group's most important function is the determination of command control levels or requisitioning objectives.

EUCOM REQUISITIONING OBJECTIVES

The European Command is authorized a requisitioning objective of 180 days and chart III illustrates the make-up of this level (chart III). Our objective is to stock 60 days of supply in command depots, 30 days of which is the reserve quantity below which our stocks must not fall.

COMPOSITION OF REQUISITIONING OBJECTIVE

EXPRESSED IN DAYS OF SUPPLY

The order and shipping time to the European Command normally consumes 120 days, which represents stock on requisition, and this added to the stockage objective of 60 days equals the requisitioning objective of 180 days. I want to emphasize one thing, and that is that we do not stock 180 days of supply. We stock 60 days of supply and the remaining 120 days is stock on order in the pipeline.

This must be translated from days of supply to quantitative control levels for every item authorized for issue, and this is the key to our entire requirements and requisitioning process. Many elements are involved in establishing a control level or requisitioning objective. They are:

(a) Published replacement factors and consumption rates.

(b) Issue experience.

(c) Projected troop strengths.

(d) Population of major items of equipment.

(e) Other elements-annual maneuvers, seasonal demands, and temporary staging areas.

(f) Judgment and common sense.

I mentioned that we use published replacement factors. We have a replacement factor in Department of the Army publications for every item which we requisition. We use this each time we initially establish a level.

We accumulate issue experience through the medium of quarterly stock analyses. Issue experience is contained in these analyses for every item of quartermaster supply. We accumulate issue experience by month and by quarter as far back as the machines go, and that is 4 years.

DETERMINATION OF CONTROL LEVELS

As the troop strength of the command is increased or decreased we must revise our control levels accordingly. As the population of major end items is decreased or increased we must decrease or increase our control levels for accessories, components, and spare parts accordingly.

We do not have the final say on control levels. All new levels and changes to control levels are recommended monthly to the Department of the Army (OQMG) for approval. When approved, the revised level becomes the established level.

Closely related to the determination of control levels is the determination of requirements. Intelligent requirements planning is the result of proper control levels.

COMPUTATION OF REQUIREMENTS

To compute requirements for an item, a formula which is readily adaptable to electrical accounting machines is employed. We consider quantities of the item on hand and due-in as assets, and the control level and dues-out, if any, as liabilities, and the difference is the requirement for the item.

Major Whalen, of my staff, will explain the details of this operation to you at the conclusion of my talk.

Önce requirements are determined, command requisitions are prepared for submission to the Oversea Supply Division, NYPE. Major Whalen will likewise discuss the manner in which we have adapted the use of electrical accounting machines to the requisitioning process. I wish to briefly cover the frequency of submission of requisitions, which is illustrated on this chart (chart IV).