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


          to repaint them before we left. That's the answer. In fact
          the HMMWVs in my group were delivered to this group in late
          September.

          MAJ HONEC: I see.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: We deployed in October. They were moving to
          the port at Jacksonville in late September. We received
          them, and within a matter of a week or ten days, they were
          on the train going to Jacksonville. So there simply was not
          time to do that.

          MAJ HONEC: I see. We fight the next war based on our last
          war. Tend to at least, anyway. Do you think will be the
          case in the future? We'll fight DESERT STORM.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Well, I hope we learned the lessons from
          DESERT STORM that need to be learned with respect to how we
          employ our forces, how we deploy our forces, and how we
          support our forces. I think, obviously I don't have any
          crystal ball that is better than anybody else's, but I think
          it may be a long time before we see the kind of deployment
          that we've seen in the Middle East. It was most closely
          akin, I guess, to what we prepared for in Europe for a long
          time in terms of the forces that were arrayed against us and
          the numbers of forces--the types and numbers of forces that
          were arrayed against us. I think probably in the future
          we'll see deployments. Certainly there are going to be
          cases where the United States' interests are threatened
          around the world and we@ve got to be prepared to respond to
          those both with combat forces.
               And with humanitarian services as well. You know, when
          you're tryina to move 1,000 soldiers someolace around the
          world to support, the same kind of stresses are placed on
          the system for deployment whether you are going to
you are going to
          Central America to support a combat operation or a
          humanitarian service operation. So there are many areas on
          which I think, of commonality, on the things we have to do
          to prepare for those. But I don't we'll see a deployment of
          the United States Army on this scale again for a long time.
          But we have to prepare for that. I will tell you, the whole
          business of having an army is to prepare for those things
          which you don't expect. And the operational plans that we
          make are good only for the first nanoseconds of the war.
          Because the only thing we can count on for sure is the plans
          we are make are not the ones we will execute in all cases,
          at least when it gets to the operational level. So we have
          to plan for that, we have to train for that, and that's what
          we are going to do with this group.


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