DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW

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Subject: DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW                                   

Box ID: BX001608

Unit: 101ST ID    

Parent Organization: XVIII CORPS 

Folder Title: DSS 101ST ABN DIV INTERVIEW CDR 101ST SG - C                                                    

Folder SEQ  #:         83

Document Number:          2








           DSIT-AE-103: COL Roy E. Beauchamp


           S-ome..660 miles from here to Jacksonville. A major
           undertaking when you start moving that much equipment that
           far in such a short period of time. And we ran, as I said,
           the operation initially at Camp Blanding, then at the port
           of Jacksonville, providing administrative and logistical
           support.

           MAJ HONEC: What sort of hours ... what number of hours the
           troops were averaging putting in getting this thing to
           fruition?

           COL BEAUCIIAMP: Oh, it was long, I know that. You know, a
           lot of folks were putting in 14-, 16-, sometime 18-hour days
           during this phase. I wouldn't tell you every soldier was
           ikorking this kind of hours, but most of them were, I can
           tell you that. Commanders and staff were deeply involved.
           It was a very strenuous and stressful period in trying to
           move all this stuff so quickly.

           MAJ HONEC: Okay. One other question that comes to mind is
           when you were plussing up in personnel, where were they
           coming from? They active duty transfers in?

           COL BEAUCHAMP: Yes, they were all active duty. We received
           the authority to activate I guess in early September with an
           effective date of 1 October. And once we received the
           authority to activate the unit and receive the UICs and the
           DODAC for the unit ... when the system began to be turned on
           and to fill up with people and equipment. We had the
           requisitions, all the requisitions; dropped the
           requisitions. And everyone responded very well in filling
           us up. The personnel system responded very well. Some
           people were assigned here on a permanent change of station.
           Some people were assigned for a short tour. For one year
           only to Southwest Asia. Some people were attached. Some
  people were sent TDY.9 So they used all the tools in the
           tool bag in the personnel business to fill us up with people
           and equipment.
                Of course the challenge there was that we were
           receiving new people who had never been to the organization.
           Receiving new equipment at the same time we trying to pack
           and deploy ourselves at the same time. In a new
           organization and at the time we were the only unit in the
           United States Army operating under this TOE. We were the
           first support group (corps) activated under this TOE.



     Unit identification code.

   9  In Temporary Duty status.

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Document 64 f:/Week-22/BX001608/DSS 101ST ABN DIV INTERVIEW CDR 101ST SG - C/desert shield-storm interview:10019616504029
Control Fields 17
File Room = jun96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-22
Box ID = BX001608
Unit = 101ST ID
Parent Organization = XVIII CORPS
Folder Title = DSS 101ST ABN DIV INTERVIEW CDR 101ST SG - C
Folder Seq # = 83
Subject = DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW
Document Seq # = 2
Document Date =
Scan Date =
Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
Short Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 01-OCT-1996