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


           COL BEAUCHAMP: Some of the greatest heros in this whole
           operation were the truck drivers. There's no question about
           that. They literally moved this corps. MY ... the truck
           drivers who worked for me--excuse me--the truck drivers who
           worked for other groups and other elements in the corps,
           they are the real heros in this whole operation. They did a
           tremendous, tremendous job of moving enormous tonnages of
           supplies and people very long distances and did so very
           safely under very, very hazardous conditions.

           MAJ HONEC: Okay. Coming out of Iraq in retrograde
           operations, how long were you at GUARDIAN CITY when you came
           back? Well, where did you go from Iraq? From Iraq, you all
           came back into the assembly area?

           COL BEAUCHAMP: Back in the Tactical Assembly Area CAMPBELL,
           that's right. We were there for a few days and then we
           began deploying back to GUARDIAN CITY. At one time we were
           ... I had people at GUARDIAN CITY and Tactical Assembly Area
           CAMPBELL and in Iraq. So we were spread over about it must
           have been over 600, almost 700 miles from point to point.

           MAJ HONEC: That must have been a hell of a command and
           control issue?

           COL BEAUCHAMP: That was a character-building experience,
           that's right. [LAUGHTER] And again it's the structure of
           this corps support group that enabled us to do that. We
           could not have done that under any other circumstances. We
           didn't have the depth and capability to make that function.
                The way it worked, I had my S-3 move back to GUARDIAN
           CITY, set that operation up, and began functioning there. I
           had my executive officer coordinating operations with the
           group in Tactical Assembly Area CAMPBELL, and I had my
       support operations officer in Iraq coordinating those
           operations. And I was between those three locations all the
           time. So [we were) spread out over tremendous distances
           trying to coordinate the activities of the entire group,
           trying to prepare for the redeployment back to GUARDIAN CITY
           and making initial preparations for redeployment out of the
           country.
                My staff worked very hard, did a tremendous job. But
           it's the structure of this group--this group organization
           that gave us the flexibility to do that. It gave us the
           depth and skills to do that and gave us the grade structure
           to be able to do that. And it functioned very effectively.
           A very impressive operation on the part of the officers,
           NCOS, and soldiers concerned. We just couldn't have done
           that I think in under an inordinate time. We didn't have
           the capability to stretch that far, to stretch that over
           those distances.


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Subject = DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW
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Declassified = 01-OCT-1996