Wtf is this lone survivor or lone runner stuff about?

[DeathBeforeDismount]

Small world…. I went to basic training with Birkel from the 1075th.

Agree with you about the women and awards. If fact, that was the hallmark of serving during that period, finding ways to give chicks awards and promotions.

That unit was FUCKING WILD.

When we got there they ended up making me the armorer/ammo bitch. The 1075th armorer was a high power shooter for the state team and a pretty cool guy so we hit it off. He had a hard drive with videos and pictures of the unit from pre-mob and the deployment. It was basically an orgy with the women in the unit. They had videos and pictures of every female in the unit naked and fucking dudes. Almost every video was different chicks from the unit fucking different dudes. One of the girls was so bad they assigned her a chaperone, she was not allowed to go anywhere without her. Turns out the chaperone was a huge slut too so they were fucking everything that walks. They were sharing the videos like it was no big deal. Married E6 and E7s railing female e3 and e4s on deployment. One of the best ones was driving through Kuwait city in one of those mini busses with the girls naked fucking dudes showing off to the locals. I don't know HOW they didn't get arrested. I know that women in our unit were fucking around too, but nothing like the hoes of the 1075th. We had a few NCOS get busted down for it. Our 1sgt got relieved for cheating on his wife with an E4 in the unit. He got to go home and quietly retired. Awesome leader, so it really sucked to loose him.

One of the stories from the battle , and I cant remember his name but he was driving a 915 during the ambush and got shot in the thigh. The bullet went through his leg and stopped half way sticking out his inner thigh. He reached down and pulled it out. If the shot was any closer the bullet would have taken his nuts out. He got a purple heart and showed me the scar. Lucky fucker didn't hit any bone or arteries. Patched him up and didn't even get to go home early. He said he was the luckiest dude in the world. Truth.

I got copies of all the shit on a hardrive that I dropped coming home and it stopped working. Still have that thing, I need to pay one of those companies to recover the data. Has most of the pictures I took on it as well.

 

[BScore]

That unit was FUCKING WILD.

When we got there they ended up making me the armorer/ammo bitch. The 1075th armorer was a high power shooter for the state team and a pretty cool guy so we hit it off. He had a hard drive with videos and pictures of the unit from pre-mob and the deployment. It was basically an orgy with the women in the unit. They had videos and pictures of every female in the unit naked and fucking dudes. Almost every video was different chicks from the unit fucking different dudes. One of the girls was so bad they assigned her a chaperone, she was not allowed to go anywhere without her. Turns out the chaperone was a huge slut too so they were fucking everything that walks. They were sharing the videos like it was no big deal. Married E6 and E7s railing female e3 and e4s on deployment. One of the best ones was driving through Kuwait city in one of those mini busses with the girls naked fucking dudes showing off to the locals. I don't know HOW they didn't get arrested. I know that women in our unit were fucking around too, but nothing like the hoes of the 1075th. We had a few NCOS get busted down for it. Our 1sgt got relieved for cheating on his wife with an E4 in the unit. He got to go home and quietly retired. Awesome leader, so it really sucked to loose him.

One of the stories from the battle , and I cant remember his name but he was driving a 915 during the ambush and got shot in the thigh. The bullet went through his leg and stopped half way sticking out his inner thigh. He reached down and pulled it out. If the shot was any closer the bullet would have taken his nuts out. He got a purple heart and showed me the scar. Lucky fucker didn't hit any bone or arteries. Patched him up and didn't even get to go home early. He said he was the luckiest dude in the world. Truth.

I got copies of all the shit on a hardrive that I dropped coming home and it stopped working. Still have that thing, I need to pay one of those companies to recover the data. Has most of the pictures I took on it as well.

Lol, didn’t know any of that, figures through. The guard is gonna be the guard. No shortage of dirtbags. I was lucky, never really had any women around my unit and didn’t have any of the issues they bring with them.

https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/it-got-scary-nebraska-national-guard-soldiers-reflect-on-ambush-in-iraq-10-years-later/

I never knew much about the ambush of the 1075th, I was either in training out of state or overseas when it was being covered. I read the above article years later and noticed my buddy from back in the day, he is the guy on the right with the SAW top picture, he was in the ambush.

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

Lol, didn’t know any of that, figures through. The guard is gonna be the guard. No shortage of dirtbags. I was lucky, never really had any women around my unit and didn’t have any of the issues they bring with them.

https://nebraskapublicmedia.org/en/news/news-articles/it-got-scary-nebraska-national-guard-soldiers-reflect-on-ambush-in-iraq-10-years-later/

I never knew much about the ambush of the 1075th, I was either in training out of state or overseas when it was being covered. I read the above article years later and noticed my buddy from back in the day, he is the guy on the right with the SAW top picture, he was in the ambush.

Our deployment was so bad (KIA, WIA, Drama, NCO and officers relieved) that the state decided to eliminate our unit while we were deployed. So we got to pick what unit we wanted to go to. I chose a CAV RTSA squadron, main reason being no women to fuck shit up. I did end my time in a coed unit but that was more to do with my regular tech job than anything. I always tell young men to go combat arms, much less bullshit to deal with on a daily basis. I learned alot about male/female unit integration on that deployment and nothing I have seen since then makes me think its anything other than a disaster waiting to happen. Shit I think 4 of the 12 or so women on the deployment got prengo durring workup/mob. Funny how that works. 2 of them got prego ON the deployment and went home early. The only 2 that wern't fucking around were lesbians go figure.

This is one of the better write ups. https://transportation.army.mil/history/unit_history/106tb.html/ Scroll down to the 1075th part.

We only had the 106th as our BN for about 35 days, just long enough to score a 101ABN combat patch The 180th out of Ft hood took over and talk about a shitshow. The CSM had full gold teeth and looked like snoop dog.

Looking back its insane what we did. Rolling around the most dangerous roads in the world with little to no armor playing IED dodgeball. Active duty and Reserve units all had armored vesicles and nicer shit. Guard seemed to get all the hand me downs when deployed. We eventually got armored LMTV's at the end of the deployment, but the damage was already done. We didnt even have 240s so were stuck between a 50 or a 249 for the turrets (took away our MK19s after we killed a bunch of dudes early in deployment, said they were too offensive and not a defensive weapon LOL)

 

[BScore]

Our deployment was so bad (KIA, WIA, Drama, NCO and officers relieved) that the state decided to eliminate our unit while we were deployed. So we got to pick what unit we wanted to go to. I chose a CAV RTSA squadron, main reason being no women to fuck shit up. I did end my time in a coed unit but that was more to do with my regular tech job than anything. I always tell young men to go combat arms, much less bullshit to deal with on a daily basis. I learned alot about male/female unit integration on that deployment and nothing I have seen since then makes me think its anything other than a disaster waiting to happen. Shit I think 4 of the 12 or so women on the deployment got prengo durring workup/mob. Funny how that works. 2 of them got prego ON the deployment and went home early. The only 2 that wern't fucking around were lesbians go figure.

This is one of the better write ups. https://transportation.army.mil/history/unit_history/106tb.html/ Scroll down to the 1075th part.

We only had the 106th as our BN for about 35 days, just long enough to score a 101ABN combat patch The 180th out of Ft hood took over and talk about a shitshow. The CSM had full gold teeth and looked like snoop dog.

Looking back its insane what we did. Rolling around the most dangerous roads in the world with little to no armor playing IED dodgeball. Active duty and Reserve units all had armored vesicles and nicer shit. Guard seemed to get all the hand me downs when deployed. We eventually got armored LMTV's at the end of the deployment, but the damage was already done. We didnt even have 240s so were stuck between a 50 or a 249 for the turrets (took away our MK19s after we killed a bunch of dudes early in deployment, said they were too offensive and not a defensive weapon LOL)

Thanks for the link, I’ll give it a read. It’s tragic most people don’t know how many units got tagged for convoy security in those days. Personally know quite a few dudes from units that were assigned that during those days. They were not trained well, not sure there was a way to train people for that. Those dudes running convoys in 05-07, that’s where the fight was.

 

[DeathBeforeDismount]

There were a few transportation units. There was an Air Force unit they folded into the BN. They did a 6 month tour (ours were 12-15 months) and got paid substandard living allowance to live in the same brand new concrete bays we lived in. All brand new armored vehicles and weapons. Our combat engineer unit had hillbilly armored ragged out trucks with 50 cals made pre WW2 with wood handles. 40 hour truck driving school now here are the keys to drive the most dangerous roads in the world.

 

[Edsel]

So warrior.

Very courage.

Extremely freedom.

 

[hankpac]

Ninjaplease...

Now you're introducing the awards process into the discussion... as an example of... What, exactly?

If nobody sought your input into a patrol debrief for over a week? I'm sorry- truly I am.

You sound like you have a big chip on your shoulder, attempting to vaguely flex "combat awards" on the internet in a place where most of the membership can smell you out right away.

I won't blindly accuse you of being a complete fake, because I don't think you are. I actually know the type. As someone said early on in the thread- there's Pogue-LRS Powerforce-Troopers in every bar in America. Some of them know "the trooth about the WMDs!" just as you were apparently told "the trooth about Leigh Ann Hester!"

You display your insecurities right there on the surface- typing up decades old smoke shack rumors in an attempt to smear a servicemember whose deeds and valor exceeded your own.

I gues it's actually YOU, who "know more than the people who were there."

...or you heard about it from some Joe in the chow line.

Anyway... thanks for the 'jobs- I'm sure they were real, real good.

The process is actually important. Many times, not necessarily always or even most, but enough to be a factor, citations are drawn up from scraps of notes written in the field, and cleaned up by the XO, back in the rear, and typed by a Clerk-typist, then signed by the adjutant, and the Battalion or higher Commander. If it was a private or Specialist or even a E-6, the people cleaning up the citation, and signing it, might not have ever met the man. Air Medals were issued in 1968, to entire Battalions (except in the case of HHC not issuing them to the Combat Medics), and All FO’s were issued them (in the 101), if they were in the field during the same operation. Same thing with CMB’s and CIB, but frankly, even valorous citations were often developed by the Staff Duty officer or the Company XO, from notes written in the green notebook, and sent in with the Beans and Bullets order, for next resupply.
I received an award during a rare stand down, that I didn’t even know I was getting, since it wasn’t discussed by the NCO’s doing the writing, and once submitted, was out of mind, until we came in about 3 months later.