Navy Supply Corps (United States)

U.S Navy Supply Corps
Supply Corps "Oakleaf" insignia
Active	23 February 1795 - present
Country	United States of America
Allegiance	U.S.
Branch	U.S. Navy (Active & Reserve Component)
Type	Staff Corps
Role	Sustain U.S. Navy and U.S. Military Operations worldwide
Size	~3565 Supply Officers
Nickname(s)	Suppo, Chop, Pork Chop
Motto(s)	"Ready for Sea" "Ready, Resourceful, Responsive"
Anniversaries	23 February
Engagements	Every U.S. engagement since the 1798 Quasi-War
Commanders
Current commander	RADM Jonathan A. Yuen, SC, USN Chief of Supply Corps

The United States Navy Supply Corps is the United States Navy staff corps concerned with supply, logistics, combat support, readiness, contracting, and fiscal matters.

Commissioned officers in the Supply Corps practice a variety of disciplines, including supply management, expeditionary logistics, inventory control, disbursement, financial management, contracting, information systems, operations analysis, material and operational logistics, fuels management, food service, and physical distribution.

Supply Corps officers are widely distributed throughout the Navy and Department of Defense; they are typically billeted to a ship or shore activity's supply department, or to a supply unit or command, such as Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Groups (NAVELSG), Fleet Logistics Centers (FLCs) or Navy Special Warfare (SPECWAR) Logistics Groups which support the United States Navy SEALs.

Ratings that compose the U.S. Navy enlisted supply community are:

The Supply Corps emerged from the traditions of ashore naval logistics and the shipboard position of Purser, which had been in use with the Royal Navy since the 14th Century. The ship's Purser was primarily responsible for the handling of money and the procurement and keeping of stores and supplies.

The Supply Corps considers as its birthday February 23, 1795, when the nation's first Purveyor of Public Supplies, Tench Francis, Jr., was appointed by President George Washington.

American Pursers served with distinction from the earliest days; Samuel Hambleton was a purser serving on Oliver Hazard Perry's flagship, the USS Lawrence, during the Battle of Lake Erie, when he volunteered to work a gun and aided in the Americans' eventual victory. Hambleton was severely wounded by a cannonball that fell onto him from the rigging of the ship.