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


          COL BEAUCHAMP: We worked with the contracting activities
          for the most part.

          MAJ HONEC: So you weren't divorced from them?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: That's right. My people ran the contracting
          activities, as a matter of fact. For the XVIII Airborne
          Corps, I think I'm correct in saying that of about twelve
          people that were in the Corps contracting office, three of
          those came from the 101st Support Group.

          MAJ HONEC: Go ahead, put a plug in for yourselves.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: We had about 25 percent of the people, the
          Contracting officers, in that operation. And we made good
          use of the local economy. It was very important in that
          case where we integrated the host nations support functions
          as well.

          MAJ HONEC: Food service. How did that go?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: We provided our own food service. It was a
          ... they loved the MREs throughout deployment, and later on
          the MORE meals that were introduced as a ...

          MAJ HONEC: But you weren't receiving Class As?13

          COL BEAUCHAMP: We did not eat Class As every day.

          MAJ HONEC: From the host nation feeding system.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: No. There were some contract feeding
          facilities in operation. We did not have a contract feeding
          facility on the deployment, on the initial phase. Coming
          back on the redeployment, we did establish a contract
          feeding operation in GUARDIAN CITY when we came back in out
          of Iraq in preparation for redeployment. Initially we fed
          ourselves with our own MKTs 14 and our own equipment. For
          Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner, we did it with all the
          trimmings, as did everyone else. Initially we didn't have a
          lot of A Ration meals. Some B Rations and MREs which the
d and
          used a lot of imagination and creativity in making those  B




   13 Fresh food.

   14 Mobile kitchen trailers, used primarily to heat and serve T-Rations,
   ,alled T-Packs, which are Class B rations.

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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 =
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