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                                                    

Folder SEQ  #:         83

Document Number:          2








          DSIT-AE-103: COL Roy E. Beauchamp


          MAJ HONEC: The group that was running the air operation.
          Could you identify those?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: That was the 372d Transportation Company.
          It's a terminal transfer unit that ran the DACG operation
          here at Fort Campbell. Obviously a key link in any air
          movement in and out of Fort Campbell. The  jj,5  assisting
          in all that, both equipment and passengers. So the
          organization was deeply involved in that respect. We were
          also assisting in the POR6 qualification of soldiers here
          at Fort Campbell. My medical units were involved in
          assisting in that effort. We were involved in issuing
          supplies to division soldiers immediately prior to
          deployment. Uniforms

          MAJ HONEC: What was the status of that? Did you experience
          at severe shortage, and if so, what sort of shortages did
          you ... ?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Shortages of supplies and equipment?

          MAJ HONEC: Yes, sir.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: I'm thinking back. A shortage ...

          MAJ HONEC: Anything that was a show-stopper? If not,
          that's fine. We can go on.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: I don't think there were any show-stoppers
          necessarily. A significant issue was the fact that we were
          doing everything on such very short notice. I think we
          deployed the division in something like forty-six days from
          the time notification was given to the time they beaan to
          arrive in the country. The first unit deployed out of here
          on the 18th of August--the 2d Brigade and Aviation [Brigade]
          Task Force. Then the other division units began to pull out
          very quickly after that.
               Once we got through the division's deployment and
          assisting the division deployment, the next step then was to
          deploy the 101st Support Group. We were activated as a TOE
        organization on the lst of October. And this had been in
          process for some time. Of course it received renewed
          impetus with the events in Southwest Asia. So we were
          transformed overnight from a TDA organization of about 30
          people into a TOE organization of about 100 people. So
          during the month of September as the group was deploying the


   5 Jumpmaster inspection.

   6 Processing for overseas replacement.

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Document 64 f:/Week-22/BX001608/DSS 101ST ABN DIV INTERVIEW CDR 101ST SG - C/desert shield-storm interview:10019616504029
Control Fields 17
File Room = jun96_declassified
File Cabinet = Week-22
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
Document Date =
Scan Date =
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