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                                                    

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          DSIT-AE-103: COL Roy E. Beauchamp


          MAJ HONEC: I appreciate your pointing that out. I forgot
          the question. What do you think about that TOE now?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: I think it's a great document. it requires
          some fine-tuning in some areas, but it provides the breadth
          and the depth of capability to manage logistics in a
          deployed theatre. There are some very innovative things in
          that document. For example, we have an organic contracting
          function--capability--in the organization. We have a host
          nation support which is really the S-5 kind of function.
          When you integrate the host nation support, the S-5, with a
          contracting capability, you have indeed a very, very potent
          capability for deployment operations. And that can very
          easily be extrapolated to a situation where we might deploy
          bn a humanitarian mission for example, where you would need
          a contracting support function as you buy materials and
          supplies from the local economy and you would need to begin
          that interaction in the local economy. The integration of
          those two functions provides a very potent capability. It's
          a very good organization. A lot of effort, a lot of thought
          and a lot of hard work went into its production at the
          Log(istics) Center and other places. It's a very effective
          document, and we are very pleased with it.

          MAJ HONEC: NBC training. Did you receive any more or more
          intensive NBC training than you normally do?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Absolutely; absolutely. That was a very,
          very significant part of our training overseas or prior to
          departing for Southwest Asia. We all knew of the threat of
          chemical weapons; that Saddam Hussein had shown no
          reluctance whatsoever to use those weapons previously. And
 fully to
          encounter chemical weapons once we got to the theater. And
          that continued on into our deployment. We continued our
          training once we got into the theater with chemical
          equipment and protective equipment; protection equipment;
          and procedures for soldiers to treat themselves. And
          operating in a chemical environment. It was very, very
          intensive. I can say to you with absolute certainty because
          I attended many of those classes and watched the soldiers,
          there were no soldiers nodding off during the chemical
          defense training classes. Everybody understood and took
          that problem very, very seriously indeed.

          MAJ HONEC: In the realm of chemical decontamination
          equipment, do you think that we have the appropriate
          equipment or ... and enough of it to say decontaminate your
          operation properly, considering the threat?



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Box ID = BX001608
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Folder Title = DSS 101ST ABN DIV INTERVIEW CDR 101ST SG - C
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Subject = DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW
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Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
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Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 01-OCT-1996