DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW

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Subject: DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW                                   

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Folder Title: DSS 101ST ABN DIV INTERVIEW CDR 101ST SG - C                                                    

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            DSIT-AE-103: COL Roy E. Beauchamp


            MAJ.HONEC: Compared to normal Army radios is what I'm
            gauging this on.

            COL BEAUCHAMP. They were very critical. If you are close
            enough to affiliate with a remote area unit or a SIN, that's
            another node you can attach into which gives you much
            broader coverage, if you are close enough to tap into one of
            those, you can call anywhere in the country. It's like a
            commercial telephone. When you are not within range, of
            course, you have point-to-point communications between those
            which is about fifteen kilometers, which is about as good as
            a FM32 radio as a matter of fact. So tremendous capability
            in what we do.


            MAJ HONEC: How about satellite communications and fax
            (facsimile transfers)? Obviously you used faxes a lot.

            COL BEAUCHAMP: We had fax operations set up. In fact, we
            didn't have any satellite communications. COSCOM had some
            but we didn't have it in the group. We did have data fax
            that we set up. And it served us very well, indeed. We
            were unable to do it in all locations.


            MAJ HONEC: How far did you deploy your faxes? Because a
            fax for other units was a boon, especially for maintenance
            and for supply and service support units, the fax was
            indispensable in tr
                              .ying to get the word out, in trying to
            get orders from point A to point B.

            COL BEAUCHAMP: We didn't have any fax beyond An Nulariya
            and BASTOGNE. I think we had fax capability there. We did
            not have a fax a Rafha, as I recall. But it served us very
            well, especially at GUARDIALN CITY. We were also abl@- to set
            up a data link between ourselves and some of the other units
            and were able to provide data transfer.

       MAJ HONEC: Okay. Well, we talked about the Japanese cars
            which got us into talking about radios again, as
            communications is a very important issue here. In Iraq, how
            long were your units there? When did they start to come
            back and when you pulled back, what issues did you face?
            Obviously a lot of supplies that were not expended to deal
            with, but also

            COL BEAUCHAMP: Ammunition mostly. Everything else that we
            had we used. Fuel and water and food, that was basically
            consumed before we left. Ammunition was the big issue. But
            we deployed it to Rafha. I think we had units that began to


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