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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Document Number:          2








             DSIT-AE-103: COL Roy E. Beauchamp


             DFAJ HONEC: Let's talk about it now. Offhand, just ... how
             many Japanese vehicles or rental vehicles did you augment
             your operation with?

             COL BEAUCHAMP: We must have had about fifteen.

             MAJ HONEC: About fifteen. Were they trucks or sedans, like
             the 2x2s and Mitsubishis.

             COL BEAUCHAMP: Two by fours and four by fours. The
             Mitsubishis and maybe a couple Toyotas. Absolutely critical
             to our operation for command and control because initially
             ... we didn't have all of our equipment early on. But they
             were a great augmentation to the commanders and they moved
             quickly, until ... in the defensive phase especially while
             we were in Saudi Arabia. They were really critical to our
             operations.

             MAJ HONEC: How did you keep them maintenanced?

             COL BEAUCHAMP: Well, the contract, the host nation's
             support.

             MAJ HONEC: Okay.

             COL BEAUCHAMP: Did some maintenance ourselves.

             MAJ HONEC: Did you use some of the resources.in Rafha?
             Some of the places?

             COL'BEAUCHAMP: There were as a matter of fact. We used
             some of the services in Rafha.


             MAJ HONEC: And   of course it would have been Dhahran who'd
             had ...

             COL BEAUCHAMP:   We had a lot of capability there for the
             Mitsubishis and  the Toyota vehicles we had.

             MAJ HONEC: Did   you use cellular telephones?

             COL BEAUCHAMP:   I had two cellular telephones. It
             absolutely gave  us a dimension of capability that was just
             outstanding. I   had one in my vehicle, and it was super,
             super critical because at GUARDIAN CITY, we didn't have any
             commercial telephones initially when we got there. We were
t commercial telephones a little later on into the
             tac(tical telephone] system. But we didn't have any
             commercial telephones at all on the deployment into GUARDIAN
             CITY except for the ones which were in my vehicle and in one
             other vehicles that had a commercial telephone. And we were

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File Room = jun96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-22
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
Document Seq # = 2
Document Date =
Scan Date =
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