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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
Folder SEQ #: 83
Document Number: 2
DSIT-AE-103: COL Roy E. Beauchamp
anxiety and channel it into positive ways. Kind of like
whistling by the graveyard. You're a little bit anxious
about doing that at midnight but the surge of adrenalin that
comes from that anxiety makes you run a little faster.
You've got to channel that surge of adrenaline You've got
to channel that into positive ways. You've got to be more
alert. You've got to be more vigilant. You've got to be
more concerned. You've got to be willing to say to your
fellow soldiers, don't do that because it's not safe. if
you maybe talk to your fellow soldier about his anxiety or
her anxiety ... that's what builds cohesion and organization
I think. We work through ... kind of work at that. The
Chaplains did a tremendous job in being with the soldiers
and working with soldiers and providing ministerial support,
spiritual support to the soldiers in the group.
It was a total team effort. Everybody contributed,
everybody played, and everybody worked very hard to make it
a success. In other words, there's no one person or no few
people or no two people that make it work. The whole group,.
the active component, the Reserve Components, the NCOS, and
the soldiers and the officers, the staffs and the
commanders--it was a total team effort from for the 101st
Support Group.
MAJ HONEC: Speaking of soldiers, I think we should get you
to comment a little bit about the women in this conflict
especially, to highlight their contribution. Can we talk a
little about, if you could, how they performed in the
desert. Obviously they were going into.a country that had
special challenges for them that you are aware of. So could
COL BEAUCHAMP: Women soldiers performed superbly. I had
them at every level. I had officers. I had NCOS. I had
female soldiers in everything we did. I had drivers. I had
mechanics. I had supply personnel, administrative
personnel. Fit right into the organization, did not miss a
bet, did not miss a step. Performed under the same
conditions that male soldiers performed under, the same
privations, and just performed magnificently across the
board. I'm very pleased and very impressed with the
performance of the female soldiers. Very, very few
discipline problems with the female soldiers. They were
conscientious and very dedicated; hardworking.
And we took the view that everybody's a soldier. You
take the top layer off, we're all the same--that's soldiers.
Hispanics, female soldiers, black soldiers--it was a team.
And female soldiers performed I guess in every role in the
corps support group that we had soldiers perform. Field
services, maintenance, supply, ammunition. I had females in
command of I think one, two, three, four--I can think of
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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
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Declassified = 01-OCT-1996