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


          magnificently to that challenge. At the same time we are
          doing that, we are establishing a support base also to
          receive the rest of the group as they began to arrive. It
          was a very trying period for us; it was a very hectic
          period; one in which we derived a lot of satisfaction
          because the staff did it very, very well. They worked very
          hard at it.

          MAJ HONEC: So it weathered very well.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: It weathered very well, indeed. That's
          right.

          MAJ HONEC: It was an extensive planning effort. Go ahead,
          fair.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Let's talk a moment about the corps support
          group and how the corps support group supports.

          MAJ HONEC: Okay.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Of course the 101st Support Group has an
          habitual association with the 101 Airborne Division. In
          addition, we have the responsibility to provide support on
          area basis in our sector. If you look at a division sector
          in a developed corps, you are apt to find there are two
          divisions worth of fighters in there. For example, we were
          supporting in the defensive phase about 31,000 soldiers--I'm
          sorry, about 28,000 soldiers--and in the offensive phase
          about 31,000 soldiers. That's when you take the division,
          the engineer group, (and) the aviation group that's in our
          sector. Other units that are operating in a sector, my own
          organization. When you add these together, you end up with
          a lot of people supporting in the division area that require
          support by other than divisional elements because the
          DISCOM24 commander has his hands full trying to support the
          division.
               So we have two missions. I have got to support the
          division--for general support, mostly. Not much direct
support for fuel, transportation support
          and that sort of thing. But in addition I have to stand
          sort of as a DISCOM for the artillery (the corps artillery),
          for example, another major component, a major player in the
          division area. Corps engineers--a key player. If there are
          aviation elements, corps aviation elements. All of which
          are vitally dependent on us for support because they have no
          DISCOM, which in turn the division needs for their support
          to reinforce and supercharge the capability of the


   24 Division support command.

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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