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File: 102896_jun96_decls6_0037.txt
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
Folder SEQ #: 83
Document Number: 2
DSIT-AE-103: COL Roy E. Beauchamp
supporting a large operation on the battlefield, now and
into the future. The volume and velocity of consumption of
fuel and ammunition and food and water and repair parts on
the modern battlefield, when you're talking about the modern
system, is so great that we simply don't have time now to
have systems that kind of ... operate sequentially. And we
don't have ... commanders don't have time to coordinate with
four or five guys, you know, one for maintenance, one for
supply and service, one for field services and one for
ammunition.
The corps support battalions now give us an integrated
structure to do that, so he's dealing with one guy, for
example. The infantry battalion commander or company
commander or an armor company commander or whatever the case
hiay be, is dealing with one guy. If he wants to talk to a
lieutenant colonel about fuel, instead of ... and he's
talking to a battalion commander instead of a group
commander or a brigade commander or a DISCOM commander. A
great innovation in logistics support for the Army and one
which we have to continue to develop in order to give us
that extra measure, that extra dimension of capability on
the modern battlefield.
I think the evolution of multifunctional corps support
groups, corps support battalions, following the evolution of
forward support battalions in the divisions is
representative of the modernization of the structure in the
Army to take advantage of the modernization in our equipment
structure in the Army. Because as I said those increased.
velocities of consumption, you have to have a support
organization that can be responsive to that. And the most
sponsive organization to that is a multi-functional corps
support battalion and corps support group in the
battlefield. We are firmly convinced of that and committed
to the idea that that's the best way to provide logistical
support on the battlefield.
MAJ HONE,C: I agree.
COL BEAUCHAMP: You might want to.talk now ... we've covered
a lot of areas during the discussions ... we might want to
talk now a bit about the offensive phase of the battle,
about the time ... I guess about the 24th of February when
we began to move into Iraq.
MAJ HONEC: Yes. A hundred hours was very short. You were
all geared up, ready for perhaps a long engagement.
Describe the process as it came about. It was over in a
hundred hours. Please describe your operations, what you
did and then perhaps some of the adaption you had to do
because it was over with as fast as we started it
practically.
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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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