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• quartering [ Providing shelter for troops, headquarters, establishments and supplies. ]

• quartering area; quartering site [Angola and Cambodia; quartering of troops in the process of being demobilized]

• quartermaster; QM [aka: unit supply officer]

• quartermaster stores [include: sleeping bags, cots, mosquito netting, wardrobes, tables, desks, chairs, blankets, sheets, disinfectants, fumigants, chemical toilets, paper products, garbage bags, water and fuel cans, crokery, cutlery, batteries, butane gas, etc.] see also: accomodation equipment

• quick reaction force see: ready reaction group; rapid deployment force

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