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


           MAJ.HONEC: Okay. Then how long did it take for the corps
           support group to come back to CONUS? You obviously had to
           continue support and also do retrograde. obviously you had
           to have troops prepared to go out on commercial airline and
           also pack the ships.

           COL BEAUCHAMP: That's right.

           MAJ HONEC: Talk about the issues you faced trying to get
           the ships--the vehicles prepared for the ships.

           COL BEAUCHAMP: We were supporting of course in the tactical
           assembly area right up to the moment we deployed out of the
           tactical assembly area. We never stopped supporting and
           laid, okay now we've got to deploy. We supported right up
           to the point where we began to deploy, set up showers and
           laundry, up to the very last minute. We deployed back to
           GUARDIAN CITY. Once again set up a shower and laundry
           operation there. The maintenance operations we had.
           Transportation was a major factor in that.

           MAJ HONEC: And where was your area of support? The
           population you supported--the 101st?

           COL BEAUCHAMP: We supported the but we had people that we
           supported at King Fahd. And of course all of GUARDIAN CITY.

           MAJ HONEC: Okay.

           COL BEAUCHAMP: On an area basis anybody who came through we
           were supporting. Things were.beginning to telescope and
           collapse very quickly at that point as units began started
           flowing out. We were at GUARDIAN CITY ... we had a
           population at GUARDIAN CITY at one time of something like
           over 7,000 soldiers. I think it was 7,000 soldiers, a big
           operation. We had engineers there, a lot of medical units
           there, transportation units, maintenance units there, the
           TCC--Transpartation and Control Center--this other leg of
g set up there which we ran. It was a major
           undertaking just to run the '@acility operation with that
           many people, coordination with all the commanders plus
           communications on the post. When we got to GUARDIAN CITY,
           we began immediately to prepare for own deployment back to
           the United States. I talked before about that ... our
           vehicle wash operation.

           MAJ HONEC: Yes. Did you have any problems cleaning the
           vehicles or getting them inspected ...

           COL BEAUCHAMP: They were very high and exacting standards.
           The soldiers understood what had to be done and they ...

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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