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


            There were some problems through the deployment as a matter
            of fact, and I should talk about this.

            MAJ HONEC: Good.

            COL BEAUCHAMP: The logistics system, especially for Class
            IX (for repair parts), was a very, very significant problem.
            That system never matured to support us in a routine way.

            MAJ HONEC: From your view, why? Why? What was the
            problem?

            COL BEAUCHAMP: I don't have visibility, of course   '  above
            the corps level and I have some visibility within the corps.
            The theater distribution system never came alive, in my
            view, so that cargo was received from the strategic
            distribution system, into the theater, and then introduced
            into corps distribution stream. That's where we picked it
            up, both as transporters within the corps and as service--
            combat service support--elements within the corps. We did
            all the right things we thought before we left here in terms
            of changing all the TAT codes, notifying all the appropriate
            agencies of those changes. But there was a breakdown and
            that system on which we were critically dependent, never
            game alive for us in the theater. Consequently I had units
            with ASLS21 that had very, very high zero balances. PLLs    '22
            that were 40, 50, 60 percent zero balances.
                 We began ... in some cases as we began our deployment
            into Iraq. A very disturbing consideration. Just before we
            deployed, a matter of two or three days before we deployed
            into Iraq, we began to see the arrival in large quantity of
            repair parts. Of course at that point when you are two days
            away from deployment, it's much like trying to drink from a
itude
            of the effort involved in breaking it down, distributing and
            stocking and that sort of thing. That material has to be
            received in digestible pieces over a period of time. And
            that is the way the system is designed to work. It never
            worked for us that way in Saudi Arabia. And that's a great
            concern. The strategic distribution system has to be fully
            integrated with the theater and the corps distribution
            system, because we got good systems in place and we are
            dependent on those systems to move materiel very quickly
            from the CONUS23 support base to theater. And we cannot


    21 Authorized stockage lists.

    22  Prescribed load lists.

    23  Continental United States.

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File Room = jun96_declassified
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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
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Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
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Declassified = 01-OCT-1996