Welcome to our website. We hope you enjoy learning about our QM OCS Class 67-13 band of brothers known as "F Troop".

Our mission with this website is to assist our classmates and cadre to stay connected as well as offer a little information to our guests who may be viewing this page.

Prior to starting our QM OCS training at Ft. Lee, VA, 82% of our class went through BCT (Basic Combat Training) at Ft. Dix, NJ.   After BCT came AIT (Advanced Infantry Training).   For AIT, 47% were at Ft. McClellan, AL, 29% at Ft. Dix, NJ and 10% at Ft. Ord, CA.

We are only just a few of the 1,816 QM OCS Graduates from Fort Lee so we would like to hear from others. Please send us an email with your name, your class number and tell us about your OCS experience and where you are now. Send it to: trooper6713@yahoo.com

Our OCS Class (67-13) is and always will be memorialized at Ft. Lee with our permanent memorial paver prominently displayed in front of the QM Museum. We were indeed the "NONE BETTER" OCS company. The paver was presented to the Museum in October, 2007.

It was August 22, 1967 when seventy-seven (77) young men graduated from the U.S. Army Quartermaster School at Fort Lee, Virginia. We were Company "F", Class Number 67-13. It was a grueling twenty-three (23) weeks of highly intense Officer Candidate School (OCS) training. Our cadre had a comprehensive goal for us - to produce competent officers who could perform under pressure as a team, survive in a combat zone and who truly cared for one another.

After OCS we all went our separate ways in a wide variety of assignments and all served with distinction. The majority of us were given overseas assignments and 34 of our classmates and 2 of our TAC's served a tour of duty in Vietnam. Four others served a tour of duty in Sattahip, Thailand. Most of our classmates completed their three year commitment to the Army, were honorably discharged and returned to civilian life. Four members served between 20-27 years on active duty and five retired from the Army Reserves. As time passed and we grew older, the memories of F Troop faded somewhat, but the values we learned were still etched indelibly in our minds.

Our F Troop has no relationship to the satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965.

It was almost 39 years after our OCS graduation in 1967, that in April 2006 our class president, decided it was time to reunite old F Troop. The search to track down all of our F Troopers and Cadre proved to be as tough as OCS had been, but it slowly began to produce results - thanks to the internet and hundreds of telephone calls (many resulting in a dead-end). As members were located, some helped to find others. Also, committees were formed to start working toward a reunion and one of our classmates started this website to help us stay connected.

After an effort requiring thousands of hours and over a year, every member of our cadre and all the classmates were located and accounted for. Sadly, we found our last missing classmate on April 15, 2007, which was the day he passed away after being a homeless person for over 12 years in Spokane, WA. He was going to be buried in a pauper's grave since he did not have a close relative that was able to take charge of his affairs. Members of F Troop quickly mobilized and using the diversity it possessed, sprang into action to legally obtain the right to handle his affairs. We had his burial with full military honors in a national cemetery which was attended by several of our classmates.

Besides the above referenced classmate death, there were four others found who had passed away.

On October 18-21, 2007, we held our first reunion near Fort Lee, Virginia which happened to be 40 years after our OCS graduation. The reunion was attended by 75% of our classmates, four of our cadre members including our Company Commander and 51 spouses and guests. You might say it was one heck of fine reunion after so many years had passed us by.

According to the Fort Lee Historian, our OCS class was the first to have a reunion at Fort Lee. However since then, the first OCS class (66-16) held a reunion there on July 19, 2011 which was attended by 28 classmates, 6 cadre and 25 guests.

On September 23-26, 2012, we held our 45th year reunion in Branson, MO and on August 28-30, 2017 we held our 50th year reunion back at Fort Lee.

My how the training of our soldiers today has changed since 1967.