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Warriors From the Mountains: Meet the Gurkhas, Reported Guards of the Trump-Kim Summit
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| 06/06/2018
| Lee Ferran
Posted on 06/06/2018 2:25:41 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen
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.
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posted on
06/06/2018 2:29:14 PM PDT
by
taxcontrol
(Stupid should hurt)
To: taxcontrol
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06/06/2018 2:30:25 PM PDT
by
Noumenon
(When all liberals have is a hammer, every problem is a nail in YOUR coffin.)
To: Kid Shelleen
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!!!!
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posted on
06/06/2018 2:31:12 PM PDT
by
Honorary Serb
(Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
To: Kid Shelleen
tough as nails. even more deadly.
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posted on
06/06/2018 2:32:28 PM PDT
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llevrok
(Established 1950.)
To: Kid Shelleen
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.
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06/06/2018 2:32:44 PM PDT
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yarddog
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
06/06/2018 2:34:33 PM PDT
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donozark
(Restraining orders are just another way of saying I love you.)
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
06/06/2018 2:37:44 PM PDT
by
Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Kid Shelleen
We had a British Gurkha contingent at United Nations Command in Seoul. Good choice.
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posted on
06/06/2018 2:38:26 PM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
To: Kid Shelleen
Maybe they’ll cane kimmie for being such a bastard
To: yarddog
Their knives go all the way back to Alexander The Great and his invasion of India.That's a long blade.
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06/06/2018 2:45:01 PM PDT
by
Disambiguator
(Keepin' it analog.)
To: Bonemaker
The comments under the YouTube were great. Thank you!!
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
06/06/2018 2:53:34 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
To: Disambiguator
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.
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06/06/2018 2:54:16 PM PDT
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yarddog
To: Kid Shelleen
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.
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06/06/2018 2:57:30 PM PDT
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DUMBGRUNT
(This Space for Rent)
To: donozark
I learned martial arts in the kokry book
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posted on
06/06/2018 3:07:42 PM PDT
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spokeshave
(recovering Spokeshave from another computer.)
To: DUMBGRUNT
To: Kid Shelleen
Yet more reverberations from the British Empire era. Gurkhas from Nepal have been active in the British military since 1816, following the Anglo-Nepalese War (18141816). In Singapore, following the India Independence of 1947, a treaty provision of the BritainIndiaNepal Tripartite Agreement allocated the formerly British Gurkha ubits to be divided between the Indian Military and Britain plus its remaining colonies which then included Singapore.
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.
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06/06/2018 3:12:32 PM PDT
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SES1066
(Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
To: taxcontrol
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06/06/2018 3:13:13 PM PDT
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Bonemaker
(invictus maneo)
To: Bonemaker
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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06/06/2018 3:17:50 PM PDT
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txhurl
(World War Q..... next stop: Arizona)
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