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


              also. 82d Airborne Division soldiers and some Corps soldiers
              as well at Rafha  . 20 Setting up the Corps headquarters and
              Tactical Assembly Area CAMPBELL, the assembly areas for the
              82d, and so forth. Lots of transportation support at Rafha.
              We moved those also with our own transportation units.
                    At the same time we began to move in the remaining
              corps support battalions that were in the An Nu'ariya at the
              same time and the group headquarters into Rafha. And to set
              up the remainder of our operations. We had maintenance
              operations, all our transportation, field services, fuel,
              the line-haul transportation of fuel. A full range of
              logistics support functions would be performed within a very
              short period of time there at Tactical Assembly Area
              CAMPBELL strung out along the MSR--MSR DODGE.      A major
              Undertaking. A major effort. We had showers, laundry        and
              bath.    Let me just give you some numbers very    quickly.

              MAJ HONEC: Yes, sir. That would be helpful.

              COL BEAUCHAMP: Of this whole overall exercise      for the
              group. You can go back and check the details,      but I'm very,
              very close. We drove, during the course of this whole
              deployment, almost 6 million miles in the group. That is
              about ten times the moon round trip. We did about 77,000 to
              80,000 showers, field showers. We moved 118,000 tons of
              cargo. We moved about 35,000 soldiers. We moved--I think
              the number is about 40,000 tons of ammunition. Did six
              thousand maintenance jobs. We baked for the soldiers 33,000
              dozen cookies during this period.

              MAJ HONEC: Those were from the operation near Log Base
            CHARLIE, sir?

              COL BEAUCHAMP: That's right. In the group. We did 50,000
              loaves of bread. And this is group-wide, [the] operation
              we're talking about. We moved about ten million gallons of
              fuel and water during that period, to the soldiers in that
              area. The full range of logistics support functions were
              being formed in Tactical Assembly Area CAMPBELL prior to our
              deployment into Iraq. of course, you know about that. We
              were up there about a little more than thirty days before we
              went forward. Soldiers doing things that soldiers do for
              other soldiers. Working hard under very difficult
              circumstances, as you know. They did a great job in that.


      20 A large percentage of 101st and 82d Airborne Division soldiers, as
well as most of the personnel required to operate XVIII Airborne Corps Main
Command Post in the new Rafha terminal complex were repositioned from their
DESERT SHIELD positions to the tactical assembly areas in the west by using
intratheater C-130 Hercules transport planes.

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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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