March 8, 2014

The first female Supply Department head on a combatant ship!

Lt. Melinda Matheny, the daughter of a retired Supply Corps officer, attended college on a full NROTC scholarship, was commissioned in the Supply Corps, and became the first female Supply Corps officer to be assigned to a combatant ship.

Nov. 6, 2013

Lore of the Corps

This issue’s Lore of the Corps focuses on Lt. j.g. Edwin Goddard, who served for four years, and as Officer-in-Charge, Central Funding Agency, from 1945 to 1946.

May 15, 2013

Lore of the Corps

This issue’s Lore of the Corps focuses on retired Supply Corps officer, Cmdr. Thomas Wylly, who completed 28 years of service and retired in 1945 after a recall to active duty during World War II.

April 20, 2013

Lt. Cmdr. Robert A. Engelmann, SC, USN

LCDR Robert Engelmann was serving in a temporary capacity as Chief, Navy Section, at the embassy, and he was scheduled to return to the United States the week after the Iranian students had stormed, taken over, and trashed the compound in November 1979. He resumed his Supply Corps career in January 1981, when he was released after nearly 15 months in captivity.