54th Quartermaster Company
- 54th Quartermaster Company
54th Quartermaster Company is the first Mortuary Affairs unit in the regular United States Army, and is stationed on B Ave, at Fort Lee, Virginia.
Their Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) code is 92M.
The 92Ms have cared for the majority of the more than 4,500 military casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. They operate under a code of conduct that's part scientific and part symbolic. Using the language of a medical examiner, they fill out forms describing and annotating every wound and marking on the bodies they receive. They also "render honor" to each soldier in their care. The 92Ms make sure the dead travel home feet-first and draped in a flag.
Training takes place at Fort Lee, Virginia, and lasts about seven weeks. These soldiers search areas for hasty or unmarked graves, unburied dead, personal effects, and identification media. They also assist in preparation, preservation, and shipment of remains.
Some of those who have volunteered to work with the dead will serve at collection points in Iraq and Afghanistan; others will work in the port mortuary at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. They help recover, identify and prepare the remains of fallen soldiers. Another small group will work with the 311th Quartermaster Company from Puerto Rico, a Reserve Mortuary Affairs unit, in Aberdeen, Maryland, at the Joint Personal Effects Depot (JPED). Here, soldiers will receive, inventory, process, clean, filter, and ship all items belonging to deceased or injured soldiers.
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