[taxcontrol]

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.

[Honorary Serb]

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!!!!

[llevrok]

tough as nails. even more deadly.

[yarddog]

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.

[donozark]

Kukri by Uncle Bill?

[Bonemaker]

Don’t pull a knife on them!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aPD9LxbgLxU

[2ndDivisionVet]

We had a British Gurkha contingent at United Nations Command in Seoul. Good choice.

[A_Former_Democrat]

Maybe they’ll cane kimmie for being such a bastard

[DesertRhino]

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/gorkha-soldier-saves-girl-from-rape-and-takes-on-40-train-robbers-with-only-a-khukuri/

And another...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1393355/Hero-Gurkha-handed-bravery-medal-Queen-said-I-thought-I-going-die—I-tried-kill-I-could.html

[DUMBGRUNT]

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.

[SES1066]

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 (1814–1816). In Singapore, following the India Independence of 1947, a treaty provision of the Britain–India–Nepal 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.

[higgmeister]

The kukri or khukuri is a Nepalese knife with an inwardly curved blade, similar to a machete, used as both a tool and as a weapon in Nepal.

[yarddog]

I read a book quite a few years ago about Iran before the revolution.

A British officer and several Ghurkas were on some secret mission involving the Communists pretending to be Islamist.

One of his soldiers silently killed one of the leaders. He brought back the guy’s Tudeh Party membership card. He had kept it tied around his scrotum apparently thinking that was the safest place.