Posted on 06/06/2018 2:25:41 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
If President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un meet in Singapore on June 12 to talk nukes as planned, a fighting force with a centuries-long reputation for courage and fierceness will reportedly be watching their backs.
Authorities in Singapore are planning to call on the Gurkha Contingent of the local police to shoulder some of the summit security burden along with the leaders’ personal security, according to Reuters. The unit recently patrolled a different high-level international meeting that some saw as a dry run for the Trump-Kim meeting. ---snip--- Former British soldier Johnny Fenn, who served with Britain’s Brigade of Gurkhas from 1998 to 2012, said the Gurkhas’ “incredibly austere” lifestyle grants them a “hardiness” that predisposes them to be excellent fighters.
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Gurkas are so tough bastards. Met a few while I was a US Army Infantryman. Glad I did not have to go up against them.
Ayo Ghurkali!
Looks like a throwback to the British Empire!!!!
If our British cousins want to be a major force in the world again, they need to STOP coddling their Muhammadan invaders!!!!
tough as nails. even more deadly.
I saw a program about the Ghurkas several years ago. Their knives go all the way back to Alexander The Great and his invasion of India.
When the British first met them they were impressed with their fighting ability. The Ghurkas on the other hand also were impressed with the British.
Kukri by Uncle Bill?
We had a British Gurkha contingent at United Nations Command in Seoul. Good choice.
Maybe they’ll cane kimmie for being such a bastard
That's a long blade.
The comments under the YouTube were great. Thank you!!
And another...
Alexander’s Greek and Macedonian troops used a very similar knife. After he left India, they began to use the same design and it eventually make it to Burma.
It was neither the Greeks or Ghurkas main weapon tho. Those were spears and guns.
A fun bit of apocryphal history.
A Gurkha Unit had its name blackened by some refusing to go on an airborne mission.
After being told they were allowed parachutes, they reconsidered.
Still besmirched.
I learned martial arts in the kokry book
Amazing.
They were a conspicuous and formidable force in the Communist-led Malayan Emergency insurgency of 1948-60, which was won by the British prior to the independence of the Malaya Federation (1957) which later separated into Malayasia and Singapore (1965). Now, the Gurkha Contingent (GC) is a line department of the Singapore Police Force consisting primarily of Gurkhas from Nepal, forming a neutral, as in non-Chinese & non-Maylay, force trusted (in large) by both ethnicities to remain neutral.
I always picture little brown guys slinking down a vine head-first with your death-blade in their teeth that you never saw, heard or sensed coming.
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