Queen decorates Nepali for Afghanistan heroics

Its like Call of Duty, except IRL. All kidding aside, hats off to this dude for not giving up.

"I had so many of them around me that I thought I was definitely going to die so I thought I'd kill as many of [those fvckers] as I could before they killed me."

^^^^^^Hell yeah

The Gurkhas are nothing to mess with.

Cheers to that guy. Nicely done!

Badass of the week

the always awesome BADASS OF THE WEEK entry for sgt pun.

Unlike in the US Military,... when you receive a medal in the British military, it means something of significance.

Dude. Great effing job.

Should have just thrown the pallet jack he used to cart his giant brass balls around on to get a few more. Wow.

Awesome job, and I would've thought deserving of the VC. Anyone ever met these guys ? To a man the most polite, good-natured soldiers you'll ever meet, until they're told to turn on the hate.

The hajjis could've had it worse though; if they'd really annoyed him he would've gone for his knife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri

Anyone ever met these guys ?

No, but I hope if ever I do that I'm on the same side!

One of my favorite Gurkas storys below; it's almost certainly apocryphal--I can't find it on Snopes et al, but Google turns up several different versions. Oh, and many of the versions turn up on "joke" sites, so....

https://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/88q3/11267.11.html

In World war II, an English reporter who had heard so much about the bravery and elan of the Gurkhas visited a camp just in front of the enemy lines (Germans). During the course of his reporting, he had occasion to observe a mission being conducted.

The mission was to airdrop a bunch of soldiers behind enemy lines to conduct some relatively light action. He watched the commander of the Gurkhas (a British soldier) pitch the mission and then ask for volunteers. To his surprise, only about half the Gurkhas volunteered and were sent off.

Throughly disillusioned with the legends of Gurkha bravery, the reporter went back home. After the war, he happened to run into a Gurkha who had been there, and asked him why half the troops had failed to volunteer. It turned out that none of the squad, both those who volunteered and those who did not, were aware that they would get a parachute for the drop. Hence the low turnout.

Awesome job, and I would've thought deserving of the VC. Anyone ever met these guys ? To a man the most polite, good-natured soldiers you'll ever meet, until they're told to turn on the hate.

The hajjis could've had it worse though; if they'd really annoyed him he would've gone for his knife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri

I was going to say, about the only thing that could have possibly made this story a little more badass was if he had cut one of those hadji motherfucker's head off with a kukri. Either way, I would not want to be on a Ghurka's bad side. That's a good way to get your nuts handed to you on a platter.

Awesome job, and I would've thought deserving of the VC. Anyone ever met these guys ? To a man the most polite, good-natured soldiers you'll ever meet, until they're told to turn on the hate.

The hajjis could've had it worse though; if they'd really annoyed him he would've gone for his knife.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri

Another example of Gurka insanity with the Kukri

https://badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html

Damn, well done sir

This should be a recurring thread; BAMF of the week/month/whatever. Too many good stories of baddassery go unnoticed among all the bullsh*t normally on the news.

Another example of Gurka insanity with the Kukri

https://badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html

Unfortunately,... had this happened in this country,... he would have faced some sort of lawsuit and/or felony charges.

Anyone ever met these guys ? To a man the most polite, good-natured soldiers you'll ever meet, until they're told to turn on the hate.

Yeah, sometimes we'd see them at the DFAC on ISAF bases. They definitely seemed of the "speak softly and carry a big stick" persuasion to me.

Unfortunately,... had this happened in this country,... he would have faced some sort of lawsuit and/or felony charges.

Discussing this with some army friends last night, and they cued me onto this : https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1295703/Gurkha-soldier-removed-duty-beheading-dead-Taliban-commander-battle.html

Rumor is that the next round of Brit defense cuts will really hurt the army, now that the AF and navy have had their dose, and the Gurkhas may lose a battalion. Well, if the Brits don't want them...

To Cpl Pun.