Guest hawkerdude Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 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 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PapaJu Posted June 3, 2011 Share Posted June 3, 2011 The Gurkhas are nothing to mess with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawnman Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Cheers to that guy. Nicely done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q1Checkride Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Badass of the week the always awesome BADASS OF THE WEEK entry for sgt pun. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuggyU2 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Unlike in the US Military,... when you receive a medal in the British military, it means something of significance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Dude. Great effing job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stretch Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Should have just thrown the pallet jack he used to cart his giant brass balls around on to get a few more. Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fin Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jughead Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 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.... http://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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
08Dawg Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 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. http://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. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danger41 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 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. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukri Another example of Gurka insanity with the Kukri http://badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nsplayr Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuggyU2 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Another example of Gurka insanity with the Kukri http://badassoftheweek.com/shrestha.html Unfortunately,... had this happened in this country,... he would have faced some sort of lawsuit and/or felony charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GovernmentMan Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest fin Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 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 : http://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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stitch Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 To Cpl Pun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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