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


               CO@ BEAUCHAMP: Well, we were deployed in Tactical Assembly
               Area in CAMPBELL with the group; two battalions, the 561st
               and the 29th-- the 553d corps support battalion, not in the
               same specific area, a little further east of us supporting
               the 3d ACR. Just before we crossed the LD,29 on the ground
               phase, we re-task organized 553d for reasons of geographic
               proximity, to the 46th Support Group. And that was so there
               would be a group commander close to that battalion
               commander. As it turns out later on, that probably was not
               necessary, but we didn't know that at the time. But we were
               at Tactical Assembly Area CAMPBELL and worked very closely
               with our customers, the artillery, the aviation, with the
               division, with the engineers, in planning for crossing the
               LD. I believe the figures are correct--when we crossed the
               LD, we carried with us about 800 tons of ammunition, about
               130,000 gallons of fuel, up two MSRS.

               MAJ HONEC: That was TEXAS? Main Supply Route TEXAS, and
               ... I


               COL BEAUCHAMP: And NEWMARKET.

               MAJ HONEC: And Main Supply Route NEWMARKET.

               COL BEAUCHAMP: That's right. NEWMARKET was the 101st
               Airborne Division MSR. But I had elements moving on two
               axes, and we again intended to employ the leapfrogging idea
               that I talked to you about before, where I had one task
               force, the 29th Support Battalion, the log task force moving
               forward with the combat units. They crossed the LD I guess
               at something like G-Day, G+l with the artillery and the
               engineers, fuel and ammunition and food, transportation--
those units; And fuel
               up NEWMARKET to the division as they established FOB COBRA,
               moved up two axes. And the plan was to move the 29th into
               location, set up a sustainment operation there.
                    And then the next phase of the operation would have
               been to bring the 561st log task force (corps support
               battalion) through the 29th to a point further north. And
               then once they set up a sustaining operation, we would then
               move the 29th in and I would have a sustaining operation
               that consisted of both task forces, and move the group
               coincident to.that. And it turned out because of the
               brevity of the operation, we ended up modifying that    plan as
               we got into it.
                    We moved initially into Log Base OSCAR with the    29th--
               that was our plan. And we stayed there a very short     time.
               We assessed the situation on the first day then we moved


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Box ID = BX001608
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Subject = DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW
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