That unit was FUCKING WILD.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.
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.