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


           into.Log Base ROMEO and set up an operation there with the
           46th Corps Support Group. As a matter of fact, we were in
           reasonably close proximity there. And as it turned out we
           decided not to move the next task force up from TAA
           CAMPBELL. We did move elements of that task force up
           shortly afterward. We never moved the task force
           headquarters. The battalion headquarters we didn't move up,
           and part of the group headquarters also remained at TAA
           CAMPBELL because of the brief period in which the whole
           operation took place. But we were prepared to do that and
           then prepared to move all the way up the Euphrates River
           Valley. In fact we did support as far north as the
           Euphrates River some of the divisional elements that were up
           there ... provided transportation support, fuel and
           ammunition, food and water and that sort of thing.

           MAJ HONEC: Would you identify some of the units that were
           up in that particular area, just to give credit, you know,
           at the time.


           COL BEAUCHAMP: Sure. The unit that moved across the first
           day was the 29th Corps Support Battalion, Trans(portation].
           They had elements of the 541st POL Company3o with them, a
           unit ... we had to re-task organize.

           MAJ HONEC: Okay.

           COL BEAUCHAMP: They had elements of the 584th Maintenance
           Company with them. The 2120th Supply and Service Company, a
          .Reserve Component unit from Fort Sill. Elements I believe
           of the 102d [Quartermaster Compa-.iy]--they were in the RRP.
           The 548th Maintenance Company, I think I mentioned that unit
           as well. The 276th Maintenance Company also moved up later
           on. So it was a ... . The 494th Transportation Company.
ents of the
           372d Transportation Company--the terminal transfer company--
           forward also. We had just about all the elements of the
           group forward ... moving forward. Some of the field service
           units did not move forward as field service elements but
           they went forward to assist in patient decontamination and
           chemical decontamination to support that operation. So we
           had major elements, and of course most of the group staff--
           headquarters staff--deployed forward. So we had major
           elements of the group deployed into Iraq starting about G+l
           time frame.

           MAJ HONEC: Okay. Did you take your Japanese vehicles with
           you into deployment?


   30 541st Transportation Company (Medium Truck Petroleum).

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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
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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