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


          a,fford for that process to get constipated because soldiers
          pay @he price when that happens. Some of the most critical
          material; repair parts, medical materiel, and other things
          as well.


          MAJ HONEC: Yes, sir.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: It's an enormous undertaking to do all of
          that and I understood the magnitude of that challenge, but
          it is simply one we can't overlook. It's critical to our
          success. And the longer we're involved in sustaining
          operations, the more critical it becomes. It is one thing
          to fight a six-month war or a 100-hour war, but over the
          longer term, equipment begins to break more frequently, and
          those become really critical problems that have to be
          addressed in the long-term. Sustainment is what enables you
          to win the war. Sustainment means a steady flow of materiel
          in digestible increments that can be absorbed by units and
          be delivered to soldiers who need it on the battlefield.

          MAJ HONEC: We can go into ... oh, I know, let's go back.
          Did you have to extensively change your plan from deployment
          to arrival to the actual, through the DESERT SHIELD
          situation? Did you have enough information, you feel, back
          here, to produce a plan that weathered well or did it have
          to be changed?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Yes.


          MAJ HONEC: Good.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: In the group, before we deployed as a matter
          of fact, we laid out some possible scenarios that we thought
          we might encounter. of course we were just establishing the
          group. I didn't a planning staff at that point, remember
          now.


          MAJ HONEC: Yes, sir.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: We had a very, very small staff here. We
          didn't have a planning staff until we got in country. Let
e bit about how we organized
          there. The first thing we did when we got in country, we
          had to have a place to live, of course, and we acquired
          GUARDIAN CITY. The first three or four weeks I had the
          group headquarters staff, and we engaged in a very, very,
          very intensive training and orientation process in which I
          was deeply involved, and my support operations officer, who
          was a new staff officer. My executive officer was still
          back here because he was coordinating the deployment of the
          remainder of the group, the battalions that would take into

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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
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