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


            developing a structure that can support for the long term to
            make us effective in the long term on a continuing basis on
            the battlefield. We didn't have that in this and that's a
            source of great concern to me as a logistician.

            MAJ HONEC: Okay. In the two volumes that probably will be
            written there, do you have any input to the historians that
            will be ...


            COL BEAUCHAMP: Well, of course there are a lot of lessons
            to be learned from this deployment; a lot of lessons have
            been reinforced. Some of the lessons from Vietnam perhaps
            we didn't learn as well as we should. In Saudi we had good
            plans in place that didn't come to ... operationalized as
            effectively as perhaps they could. Again, I go back to the
            distribution system. We have a DSS-ALOC system which is a
            superb system--not a perfect system but a superb system--but
            it requires an understanding of the system to make it
            function. An understanding at every level. And it requires
            every element involved to do the things they need to do--the
            depot needs to be doing its thing correctly and the Air
            Force needs to be doing their thing correctly, and the pier
            needs to be doing his thing correctly and the corps needs to
            be doing his things correctly.

            MAJ HONEC: Any interface issues which you are aware of ...
            problems that were directly ... that are systematic? Not
            only DESERT STORM [but] DESERT SHIELD?

            COL BEAUCHAMP: The problem ... I did not visibility above
            the corps level. I was focused primarily on trying to
            support my own operations. So I can't speak with great
            authority on the intimate nature of the problems that
ater level.
            But I can tell you that there were problems. I understand
            how those systems are supported to work. And I understand
            what the result of that system is supposed to be. And I can
            tell you from the operational end, as a receiver of those
            services, it didn't function the way it was supposed to.
            And that's the perspective I have which leads me to conclude
            there were some problems there.

                              [END OF SIDE 2, TAPE One)

            MAJ HONEC: This is Tape Two of the interview with COL
            Beauchamp of the 101st CSG here at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
            Again, starting with the question about the systemic
            problems from your viewpoint of the logistics systems, sir?

            COL BEAUCHAMP: Well, as I saying, the perspective I have on
            the problems that I discussed were from the group level.

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