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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Document Number:          2







          DSIT-AE-103: COL Roy E. Beauchamp


               Let me talk for just a moment about the structure of
          t@e 4roup here at Fort Campbell, because it changed as we
          deployed at Southwest Asia. But let me talk about the
          structure of the group here at Fort Campbell. As we began
          deployment, as I said, it was a TDA organization--
          provisional support group. It consists of the 561st Supply
          and Service Battalion; it consists of the 29th
          Transportation Battalion; the 20th Engineer Battalion; the
          86th Evacuation Hospital. There is also a 20th Replacement
          Detachment as part of the group and also the Air Assault
          School and the NC02 Academy that are on post.
               So our first effort was to mobilize the resources of
          the group to assist the division in its deployment. And we
          did that in a number of ways. of course, we run the DACG  3
          operation here at Fort Campbell. We were deeply involved
          from the very earlier moments of notification in assisting
          the division in its deployment. The division deployed from
          Jacksonville, [Florida], as did we. We provided materiel
          assistance. In fact, we coordinated and ran the operation
          associated with the road march of division down to
          Jacksonville. We ran all the refuel points en route. We
          ran--coordinated--the overnight operation en route to
          Jacksonville. We had people at the port in Jacksonville
          coordinating the administration of logistics support of that
          effort. Once we began, fit was) a road march of about 4,000
          vehicles, I suspect, in the division; maybe a few more than
          that. We were also assisting other people on post, the
          DOL4 notably. And the road march--I'm sorry, the line
          haul--of equipment to Jacksonville.

          MAJ HONEC: Jacksonville, Florida?

da. That's correct. We
          also assisted in the rail movement of what little bit of
          equipment in that division went by rail. But not very much
          at all. All of the equipment from the group went by rail.
          So in addition to that, we were deeply involved in
          transportation support, supply and service support here on
          the installation and the division, and all of those efforts
          for maintenance to prepare the division for its deployment.
          At one time during the deployment of the division, we were
          either running or deeply involved in assisting others to run
          an air operation, a line-haul operation, a convoy operation,
          a rail operation and a port operation.


   2 Noncommissioned officer.

   3 Departure airfield control group.

   4 Directorate of Logistics.

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File Room = jun96_declassified
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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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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