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


            You.know, I can't speak in great detail on the problems that
            they had at theater level and at the strategic level. I
            understand the enormous complexity of that process, but I
            understand also the systems that are in place in the Army
            doctrinally to service soldiers in a deployed theater and in
            a deployed corps. I can say that based on my understanding
            of what those systems are supposed to do, there was a
            problem because I did not receive the support which I
            thought we should have gotten at the corps. So my focus is
            primarily on the corps, and I'm concerned about that.
                 You know, we have to put in place system that enables
            us to move materiel to the soldier in the battlefield very
            quickly. The repair parts and the medical materiel, the
            food--all of that sort of stuff--and do so on a routinized
            basis. We can't jump-start the system every time I need
            something. I think the spinoff to that have just enormous
            implications for sustainment. And of course it taxes the
            local system when you have to go out and buy stuff that
            ordinarily you would get through the supply system. And
            that's a source we used very frequently and to good effect
            in Saudi Arabia. Because we could do that.

            MAJ HONEC: Well, it was an established country. I mean, it
            had established supplies.

            COL BEAUCHAMP: An infrastructure.

            MAJ HONEC: Yes. Infrastructure. Except places like
            Honduras ...

            COL BEAUCHAMP: That's right.

            MAJ HONEC: Or other developing countries.

            COL BEAUCHAMP: That's right. You can't do it. It would be
            impossible to do that. It has enormous implications for
 to
            deploy forces--maybe not in corps strength but maybe in
            battalion strength or brigade strength, or whatever the case
            may be. But enormous implications for our support in that
            regard. We can't carry enough to sustain ourselves for a
            long period of time. The Army has not structured us to do
            that. The Army has structured us based on the delivery of
            materiel to the soldier in the battlefield in a relatively
            short period of time. So that system   has to function for
            US. It has to work.
                 It requires a lot of interaction  and a lot of
            integration of capability between the  Air Force and the Navy
            and the Army. In between the theater   logistic systems and
            the corps logistic system. And we've   got to work that hard.
            The DSS ALOC system specifically that  I made reference to.

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