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


           Gommunications. Loads of things that we had to do, that we
           had to absorb in the group out of our group structure.

           MAJ HONEC: How did you handle communications

           COL BEAUCHAMP: We had a signal element that was with us at
           GUARDIAN CITY that established communications. And as we
           deployed, one of the problem we had, perhaps we'll talk
           about it later on, is a communication support in corps
           support groups. But we had ... every time we deployed, we
           had a signal element that joined us (in the corps signal
           brigade") to establish communications for us.

           MAJ HONEC: Okay. Road maintenance. Where did that come
           Trom? And did you have enough of it? Whenever you needed
           it, was it there?

           COL BEAUCHAMP: Well, we did most of the work ourselves on
           the installation. The engineer battalion, as I said, that I
           had here was detached from me, once we got into the country.
           We didn't receive a lot of support from other engineer
           elements. We have some organic equipment and some
           bulldozers and things like that. So we did a lot of our
           work. And a little later, we leased some equipment. Some
           road graders as well. So it was again an operation that we
           took out of our hide to support. In addition, we set up our
           maintenance activities there, and we set up field service
           activities, field supply operations were set up and
           operating; all group functions that were necessary. We
           began our deployment from GUARDIAN CITY in late November and
           from there moved about 110-120 miles north to An Nu'ariya,
           BASTOGNE--[Forward] Operating Base BASTOGNE.

           MAJ HONEC: What route did you take? The MSRS.

           COL BEAUCHAMP: The MSR AUDI. How did we get there? Okay,
           up Tapline Road.le

         MAJ HONEC: Okay. DODGE. You had to get to SULTAN (Range]
           by going up to ...

           COL BEAUCHAMP: And we went to AUDI up to by [All Jubayl,
           and then on DODGE from there to An Nulariya. We eventually
           moved headquarters in early December--late November or early
           December we moved. We had two battalions there and the


    17 35th Signal Brigade.
    18 Main Supply Route AUDI was the coastal highway; Main Supply Route
     was the Trans-Arabian Pipeline ("Tapline") Road.

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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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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