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


          him relief from the commitment for this deployment. He has
          returned back to the United States and is now in the process
          of leaving the service to go to work for the Drug
          Enforcement Administration. We were very fortunate.
               And we had some great contracting people. What we
          tried to do was make the contracting function a direct
          support logistic function in support of soldiers on the
          battlefield. We tried to make that work there. It was a
          new concept; it had never been done that way before.

          MAJ HONEC: Yes. Is it? That's what I was done to ask. Is
          it a new concept?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Well, it's new in the way we tried to
          implement that. I tried to integrate the contracting and
          the host nation support functions so if you're a soldier in
          the battlefield and need some support. Let's say you're an
          infantry battalion commander and you need some support, say,
          "well how do I get this?" What I want you be able to do, as
          you would for any other support  ... logistic support
          requirement, if I'm your support  ... say I need a widget,
          it's not available in the supply system but I really must
          have this widget for my operation. My host nation support
          office, through their interaction in the local community, in
          developing sources in the community, would help him identify
          a source for that product. My host nation contracting staff
          or contract administration staff would then assist him in
          writing up a statement of work for procurement. That would
          then be processed through the infantry battalion commander's
          chain of command, upon certifying, and then go to the
          contracting office who then has a good statement of the
          requirement because a contract-oriented person has assisted
 customer in developing that, so he gets a document that
          he can work with immediately. He then goes to the source,
          buys material and delivers it back into the logistics system
          to the customer. That's the way I want to see it work.

          MAJ HONEC: Fantastic. You say perhaps we put that as a
          mainstream, maybe perhaps integrate that particular
          methodology.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Absolutely. I think it's critical and will
          become ever more critical when we look at deployments--
          smaller deployments--when you're deploying maybe not a
          corps, maybe even not a division, but maybe a brigade or a
          battalion or a brigade task force, a battalion task force,
          where you have to have that sustaining capability. This is
          in many respects a new concept we've got to more fully
          develop to get everybody kind of on the same frequency
          concerning how this ought to operate. We had great success
          in our host nation support in Saudi Arabia. Tremendous

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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
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Subject = DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW
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Queued for Declassification = 01-JAN-1980
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Long Term Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Permanent Referral = 01-JAN-1980
Non-Health Related Document = 01-JAN-1980
Declassified = 01-OCT-1996