Navy Supply Corps School
1378 Porter Ave
Telephone: (401) 841-4801
Website: https://www.netc.navy.mil/centers/css/nscs/
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The Navy Supply Corps School was first opened as the Navy Supply Corps School of Application in 1921, located at the Navy Department in Washington, DC. Following closure three years later, supply officers learned their profession on the job, at sea from senior supply officers, and through formal, but independent coursework over the course of the next ten years. A more formal arrangement was achieved when the Naval Finance and Supply School was opened in September 1934 for instructing regular Navy Supply Corps officers. Training of reserve officers didn’t occur until 1940, when the Supply corps Naval Reserve Officers School was established in Washington, DC. After ten months, the two schools merged and created the Navy Supply Corps School, located at the Harvard Business School in Cambridge, MA. Since that time, the Navy Supply Corps School has been hosted at various locations, including the Naval Supply Operational Training Center in Bayonne, NJ where it official became the Navy Supply Corps School, and Athens, GA.
The Navy Supply Corps School officially relocated from Athens, GA to Newport, RI in December 2010. Housed in a 58,000 square foot state of the art facility complete with electronic classrooms, NSCS Newport had it’s opening ceremony onboard Naval Station Newport on 24 January 2011. Officially named The Wheeler Center, the building is named after VADM Kenneth R. Wheeler, SC, USN, a former World War II prisoner of war who served as a former Commander, Naval Supply Systems Command and 31st Chief of Supply Corps. VADM Wheeler earned his third star in 1973 at which time he as designated Vice Chief of Naval Material.
The building contains eleven electronic classrooms, two Video Tele-Training rooms, a multi-purpose room capable of being separated into three classrooms, and nine breakout rooms. Additionally, there is a mock ship’s store, barbershop, and shipboard galley used to introduce the basic qualification course students to what they might expect during their first shipboard operational tours as division officers.
The mission of the Navy Supply Corps School is to develop Navy Supply Corps officers and other logistic professionals through integrated education and training while building their personal, professional, and leadership competencies to meet current and future global defense challenges. NSCS Newport currently teaches the following courses: Basic Qualification Course, a six month program teaching the fundamentals of supply/logistics to young supply officers; Supply Officer Department Head Course (4 weeks); Senior Supply Officer Department Head Course (8 days); Stock Control Supervisor/R-Supply Force Level Course (2 weeks); Division Officer Leadership Course (5 days); Department Head Leadership Course (5 days); Basic Qualification Course Naval Reserve (12 months); Reserve Supply Management Advanced Refresher and Instructor Training (RESMART) (2 weeks); Introduction to Expeditionary Logistics (IEL) (2 weeks); LSS Refresher Course (2 days); International Officer Supply Basic Course (6 weeks); International Logistics Executive Advanced Development (8 weeks); Advanced Management Program (2 weeks); Transportation of HAZMAT (2 weeks); Transportation of HAZMAT recertification (1 week); Joint Aviation Supply and Maintenance Material Management (2 weeks). The average throughput is approximately 2,400 students per year, including four BQC battalions per year with 70 students per battalion.