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


            no good to you. Computers will only enable you to screw it
            up faster and more efficiently if you don't know how to use
            those computers effectively.

            MAJ HONEC: Good point.

            COL BEAUCHAMP: Likewise for technology; it's great as long
            as it works. But the most sophisticated attack helicopter,
            the most sophisticated weapons system is useless if it can't
            perform on the battlefield. To perform on the battlefield,
            it has to be supported and it has to be sustained. And they
            have voracious appetites for fuel and ammunition and repair
            parts. And all the logistics systems have to be structured
            in my view to satisfy those appetites or those systems
            cannot be optimized on the battlefield. I think that's an
            important dimension from a logistics officer's perspective
            on what we have to do.
                 So I think we have to be honest with ourselves as we go
            through the system ... and as an Army ... in saying, okay   we
            did some things really good here. Let's not be consumed
            with our successes. Let's look also at what-might-have-
            beens, reasonably and rationally. I don't mean as a
            doomsayers. I'm not suggesting that. But let's look at
            what might have happened had it gone for six months or
            twelve months and now assess our systems and see if there is
            anything we can learn from that. Be objective it, that's
            what I'm saying. We owe it to ourselves and we owe it to
            those who will follow us, I think, to do that. We owe it to
            those young soldiers who are going to be field grade
            officers and group commanders and command sergeants major to
            do that, because they'll carry the next war. I think
and
            observations may be helpful in that regard.

            MAJ HONEC: I hope they are, sir. Any other particular
            things that perhaps we can cover as part of the ... any key
            issues that ... well, I have a question that is kind of out
            of the realm of what we're talking about, but I noticed that
            the HMMWV38 that I drove up in was Woodland Camouflage and
            it had anti-fratricide markings on it. Were all the
            vehicles in your CSG Woodland?

            COL BEAUCHAMP: Yes.

            MAJ HONEC: Why?

            COL BEAUCHAMP: I had very few vehicles that were tan
            because we deployed so quickly here we didn't have a chance


    38 M-998-series High Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicle.

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