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


            (!OL BEAUCHAMP: Into Iraq? No we did not. I only took ...

            MAJ HONEC: They were all tactical vehicles?

            COL BEAUCHAMP: We took all tactical vehicles. We had only,
            I believe I am correct, we had only one vehicle for the
            civil affairs team that came to us.

            MAJ HONEC: Was that mainly because of the gasoline
            availability or was it just a thought on your part to limit


            COL BEAUCHAMP: Well, I felt ... I decided not to deploy
            those Japanese vehicles. Perhaps if we had stayed longer,
            Tke might have done so. But there was a problem with
            maintenance; trafficability. We weren't sure what kind of
            terrain we were going to get involved in.

            MAJ HONEC: Oh, okay. Good point.

            COL BEAUCHAMP:  Identification of those vehicles by friendly
            forces and ...

            MAJ HONEC: Did  you put the standard fratricide panels on
            those and the inverted Vs33-... '>

            COL BEAUCHAMP: Everything that deployed had panels and V's.
            That's right.

            MAJ HONEC: Okay.

            COL BEAUCHAMP: But I think the civil affairs team that was
            with us (a Reserve element, as a matter of 4.act) they had a
            commercial vehicle. There might have been one more in the
            group, again with host nation support. But that's the only
            area that I'm permitted those commercial vehicles to go
            across the field ...


            MAJ HONEC: Perhaps a little later on we can talk about the
            availability of those vehicles aided you in command and
            control.

            COL BEAUCHAMP: Absolutely indispensable; absolutely
            indispensable.



     31 Coalition forces adopted a marking system for all vehicles to avoid
     cide that included the use of roof- or hood-mounted orange VS-17
d an inverted "VI' painted on the sides of
     es.


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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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Declassified = 01-OCT-1996