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


           We've got to train those units. And our active Army units
           as well. And how those strategic logistical units have to
           fit together to support soldiers on the battlefield, to
           understand how the time lines and the urgencies are
           associated with that process. It's a very complex, complex
           business.
                We have to look at our materiel management centers, our
           movement control centers in the corps, document those. And
           we've got to find ways to train those elements in the kind
           of conditions that we will encounter on the battlefield.
           We've got to put people in those key positions and those
           division chiefs and those commodity managers who really,
           truly understand the functions that they are manage.
           Because they have a pervasive impact on the whole corps. If
           you've got for example--as an example, and I am not
           referring to any specific case in Saudi Arabia--but if
           you've got, for example, in the corps materiel management
           center, let's say, a tank-automotive division chief and
           we're classifying stuff.

           MAJ HONEC: Uh-huh.

           COL BEAUCHAMP: And that guy has responsibility for managing
           the Class IX function in the whole corps--the requisitions
           and the repair parts and the information, the status and all
           that business for the whole corps, flows through that
           manager. He has responsibility for Class IX. It has a
           pervasive impact on the whole corps' operation.
                So we've got to put people in those positions, in those
           functional centers--in the material management centers and
           movement control centers--who really understand their
           business and understand the impact in the relationship
           between the corps materiel management center and the Jones
     Support Supply Base in the corp@, and how that fits into the
           retail operation of the corps. A critical relationship.
           And we've got to delve into those logistically and gear our
           training programs for captains and majors and our
           logisticians to be able to deal with those kinds of
           situations.
                We also have to recognize, I think, in the Army and
           deal with the fact that you can't sustain ALO-1 consumers
           with ALO-3 or ALO-4 providers over the long term. You can't
           put a maneuver element out and put them at 110 percent
           strength, and tell the unit that's a 70 percent strength to
           support those units indefinitely. Because if you start with
           an ALO-3 unit--logistics unit--by the time you take out the
           security and sick call and other things, you may end up with





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Box ID = BX001608
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Folder Title = DSS 101ST ABN DIV INTERVIEW CDR 101ST SG - C
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Subject = DESERT SHIELD-STORM INTERVIEW
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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