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


           problems with some of the Reserve Component units that
           joined us and I'll talk more about that in a moment. But we
           didn't experience any major problems deploying with the
           group's equipment.
               Now once we arrived in country there were some changes
           to our task organization. The hospital wag re-task
           organized to the 44th Medical Brigade located at Fort Bragg.
           My engineer battalion was re-task organized to the 20th
           Engineer Brigade, also a Fort Bragg unit. And shortly after
           my arrival in country we picked up 553d Corps Support
           Battalion, a unit that had been deployed to Southwest Asia
           from Fort Hood, Texas. In addition, we began to receive
           Reserve Component units which had been activated and joined
           us in Saudi Arabia.

           MAJ HONEC: Did they come full up in personnel and
           equipment?

           COL BEAUCHAMP: Not full up in the sense that they were ALO-
           111 and not full up in all cases in terms of equipment and
           repair parts.

           MAJ HONEC: Okay.

           COL BEAUCHAMP: But I had units from California; Oklahoma; I
           had units from Washington, D.C.; Pennsylvania; New York
           City; [and] two units from Puerto Rico. About half of the
           structure of the group at that time (when it was finally
           developed) was from the Reserve Component--company-sized
           units.

           MAJ HONEC: What was the opinion--your opinion--of the units
           coming in and how did it change during the ... during the
           ... ? You know, what I'm trying to say is what impression
           did the units coming in from the Reserves and the National
           Guard give you and then how did it change perhaps ... when
           the new units started working for.you and you became more
           familiar with them?

MP: Of course anyone that's been around the Army
           for a long time is familiar with and has to embrace the
           Total Army concept, because there simply is not enough
           structure in the active component, especially in the
           logistics areas, to satisfy all the requirements of an
           Active Army in a major deployment like that when you put a
           corps or two corps on line.
                Reserve Component units that we received would mirror
           the same kind of distribution curve you would probably see


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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 =
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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