Naval Medical Logistics Command

MISSION As the Navy Medicine center of logistics expertise, we design, execute, and administer individualized state-of-the-art solutions to meet customers’ medical materiel and healthcare service needs.

COMMAND HISTORY In 1850, the United States Navy established the Naval Medical Supply Depot in Brooklyn, NY with Medical Department Officers serving as Medical Materiel Managers.

In 1853, Congress authorized a separate manufacturing laboratory which authorized the Navy Department to "produce medical supplies for the Medical Department of the Navy" at the Brooklyn facility under the direction of Surgeon Benjamin F. Bache, USN and his assistant, Passed Assistant Surgeon E. R. Squibb, USN. Doctor Squibb later resigned from the Navy and founded E. R. Squibb & Sons, Incorporated, to further his work and research on refining and purifying Ether.

In 1905, the Secretary of the Navy authorized construction of a new United States Naval Medical Supply Depot. On 26 May 1905, the new Depot was established on the grounds of the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, NY. Between 1905 and 1941, expansion of the Navy and the preparation for war required the construction of several other buildings for the Depot.

Along with growth came the need for additional education and training of Medical Supply Officers. In 1941, a Medical Supply Management Training program was established at the "United States Medical Supply Depot" for the Hospital Corps Warrant Officers who performed the Medical Supply functions during World War II.