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


          Rations and MREs and supplements.'s We did receive
          supplements of course with the MRES.

          MAJ HONEC: What sort of supplements?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Sodas, fresh fruit, cakes, things of that
          nature.


          MAJ HONEC: I see.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Which made them a lot more palatable, of
          course.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Going back to the compound in GUARDIAN CITY,
          t4as that a particularly good place to set up?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Well, it was an excellent place. I went out
          and looked at it the first day or so in country.

          MAJ HONEC: What was the soil like?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Most of the installation ... it was actually
          1,000 acres roughly divided into two 500-acre plots. One
          plot was about 60 percent software, which is damp sand.
          Excellent trafficability. Limited dust problem. It was a
          farm, as a matter of fact; more of a wheat farm. So it was
          an excellent terrain for us. It was self-contained. It was
          large enough to park our equipment in. It had good
          proximity to the port. Good proximity to King Fahd
          International Airport. Good proximity to the main supply
          routes, which made it a very attractive operation for me
          when I moved in and saw it. There were some facilities on
          the installation which we were able to take advantage of.
          Some trailers; a house that we were able to set up our
          operations in initially before we had our equipment in. And
          water. It had its own installation. We had nine wells. We
          had a very abundant supply of water which was critical
          coming in but super-critical in the redeployment as we were
          taking our equipment out. We cleaned about 2,500 vehicles
          on the installation on a vehicle cleaning operation we set
 I am
          sure in the United States and in Saudi Arabia, an irrigation
          system that is mounted to the well and a long row of
          sprayers that rotate around ...

          MAJ HONEC: Right. Elevated   ...

          COL BEAUCHAMP: That's right. Patches.


  15  Called Meals, Organizational, Ready-to-Eat (MOREs).

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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