LOG 201 · Quartermaster and Logistics · Level 200 (Phase Two)
A Royal Army College course in holding, accounting for, and caring for the Army's stores and equipment.
Course length: 10 hours, studied online and asynchronously at the student's own pace, together with any in-person practical instruction and assessment the course requires.
Foreword
An army is sustained, or it does nothing. The finest plan and the bravest soldiers come to nothing without water, rations, batteries, fuel, medical stores, and serviceable equipment in the right place at the right time, and for a small humanitarian force, logistics is not a supporting act at all: it is the work itself. The water carried to a flooded district, the blankets issued to the cold, the first-aid stores that reach the injured, these are sustainment, and they are how this Army helps.
This course is the foundation of that work. It teaches what logistics is and why a force can only do what it can sustain; the difference between accountability and responsibility, and the maxim that you sign for it, you own it; the documents that record every receipt, issue, loan, return, and write-off; how stores are classed, stored, rotated, secured, and kept serviceable; how stock levels are controlled, equipment is managed through its life, loss and damage are handled and written off, and hazardous stores are kept safely; how a stocktake proves the records true; and the absolute standard of honesty without which the whole system fails. It draws on recognised logistics doctrine and on the plain craft of the storekeeper.
The work is unglamorous and exact, and it is trusted work. A storekeeper holds the Army's property and the truth of its records, and a force that cannot trust its stores cannot know what it has or what it can do. This course builds the member who can be trusted with both.
Who this course is for
This course is for members entering the Quartermaster and Logistics speciality, for anyone who will hold or issue Army stores, and for those preparing to support a quartermaster. It assumes RMT 140 · Personal Administration and Field Routine.
What this course covers
| Lesson | Title |
|---|---|
| 01 | Why Logistics Wins |
| 02 | Accountability and Responsibility |
| 03 | The Documents of Stores |
| 04 | Classes and Kinds of Stores |
| 05 | Storekeeping and Stores Discipline |
| 06 | Inventory Control and Stock Levels |
| 07 | Equipment Management: Maintenance, Repair, and Serviceability |
| 08 | Loss, Damage, Write-Off, and Investigation |
| 09 | Hazardous and Special Stores |
| 10 | Stocktaking, Honesty, and the Storekeeper's Standard |
How this course fits the catalogue
LOG 201 is the foundation of the Quartermaster and Logistics speciality. It builds on RMT 140 · Personal Administration and Field Routine, supports PME 210 · Basic Staff Duties and Written Orders (records and documentation), and connects to FLD 210 · Weapon Handling and Safety (the care and secure storage of equipment), MED 210 · Field Health (medical stores), and LDR 420 · Command Responsibility and Ethical Leadership (the integrity of the storekeeper). It leads on to LOG 210 (Field Logistics and Sustainment), LOG 220 (Procurement and Supply Administration), and LOG 310 (Quartermaster NCO Course).
A note on appointments and honesty
Holding this speciality does not make a member the Quartermaster: that is an appointment, made by the proper authority, carrying responsibility for stores and supply. And the whole craft rests on honesty. There is no "borrowing" from stores, no covering a loss, and no false entry; a loss is reported, not hidden. The moment the records cannot be trusted, the force no longer knows what it has.
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