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


          MAJ HONEC: The refueling points, sir. What were they like
          along the road? How far did you have them dispersed out?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: The first one was I guess about three hours
          to Mount Eagle, Tennessee. The second refuel point was at
          Atlanta. And the third one was at Valdosta, Georgia. And
          the final point of course was at port in Jacksonville. It
          was a two-day road march by vehicle--convoy--from here to
          Jacksonville.

          MAJ HONEC: And they supplied obviously fuel and food, I
          suppose?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: When the soldiers deployed from here, they
          took with them of course MREs . 7We didn't provide a lot of
          food en route except in Atlanta. There was food available
          at the overnight stop in Atlanta. And we worked very
          closely with people at Fort Gillem, a military activity
          there just outside of Atlanta, south of Atlanta, to
          accommodate our requirements. A very complex operation. A
          major operation considering the number of people that we
          moved, the amount of equipment that we moved, and the time
          frame in which we moved it. Again, accomplished with no
          major equipment losses or no serious injury to soldiers.

          MAJ HONEC: Did you have enough communications, you felt, to
          at least be able to accomplish this task?

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Well, during this phase of the operation, we
          relied primarily on the commercial telephone lines.

          MAJ HONEC: Okay.

          COL BEAUCHAMP: Communication is always an issue, and we'll
          talk more about that once we get into the deployed phase.

          MAJ HONEC: What my point is, what I'm trying to get is, the
          unit used external as opposed to internal communications--
          both to a great extent, I would imagine. The internal
          resources were taxed also?

OL BEAUCHAMP: Yes, that's right. Of course the division
            . they actually conducted the convoy themselves and
          P'@ovided their own march unit commanders and that sort of
          thing. go they used their organic communications I am sure.
          To manage and coordinate that operation, we relied primarily
          on commercial telephone lines. And a lot of hard work by
          people moving back and forth along that route of march.


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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 =
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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