Founded in 1795, the Supply Corps provides responsible stewardship of the Navy's material resources, managing and guarding a supply pipeline that stretches from industrial America to storerooms and ships at sea. The bronze relief shows a replenishment at sea by a new addition to the Navy support system, USS SUPPLY (AOE-6), resupplying one of the newest class of Navy destroyers, USS ARLEIGH BURKE (DDG-51).
Logistic support of the operating forces of the Navyâ?šthat has been the fundamental job of the Navy's Supply Corps since 1795, when this branch of the Navy was formed to support six wooden frigates. And while almost everything else has changed in almost two centuries, the fundamental mission of this important Navy community has not.
Throughout their illustrious history, the officers of the Supply Corps have kept pace with the expanding needs of the modern Navy and the scope of its mission. Supplying the Navy with over 2 million different items essential to the operation of modern ships, missiles, aircraft and facilities, this now specialized and highly professional community has been eminently successful in meeting the challenges of a wide range of management disciplines.
The broad responsibilities of the corps are closely related to those of many executive positions in private industry such as financial management, inventory control, merchandising, transportation, procurement, data processing, and personal services including paying and feeding personnel, and operating the Navy Exchanges and commissary stores.
The bronze relief is sponsored by the Supply Corps Association and its many friends and supporters. Sculptor: Gilbert A. Franklin.
