WARNING: Gurkhas!!!!!!!!!!!

02/15/2005

[Covenantor]

Ghurka ping

[-=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-]

Nepal

[Lazamataz]

I don't mean to sound dumb, but are they from our country?

Depends which your country is.

[DTogo]

Cool thread!

[flashbunny]

No, they are from nepal.

[-=[_Super_Secret_Agent_]=-]

A Gorkha IAF Jaguar pilot

[Billthedrill]

Great troopers. I, for one, don't want my last words to be "what's that skinny little feller gonna do with that there bent-up kni-"

[Semper911]

Geez, I hope they are on our side.

Great pics.

[dighton]

From the obit archives, Ganju Lama.

[mnehring]

I'm so glad they are on our side. Those are some tough SOBs.

[Cultural Jihad]

Tradition dictates that the khukhri knife must always taste blood if it is unsheathed; and hence its owner will slice his own finger to satisfy tradition.

[JennysCool]

Great pics, great thread. Thanks!

[Diego1618]

They are from Nepal, but by tradition a brigade serves in the British Army. This honor goes back 250 years ago when the British were fighting them in India and considered them to be an extraordinary foe. After hostilities were concluded the British extended their historic and benevolent invitation. A brigade has served with the British in every major campaign since.

[ProudVet77]

Not a gurkah story but still true - A few years ago I had the pleasure of having someone from South Korea working for me. For those that don't know, ROKs, as they are known, are considered some of the toughest Army folks in the world. Any this fellow had been a Capt in the ROK Army. He actually had been a paratrooper. I used to take my staff out to lunch every other week for lunch to encourage them. We'd tell stories, talk family etc. Anyway, I happen to mention to the group that this fellow had been a paratrooper, and he jumped out of planes in the Army. He looked around the table and sheepishly said something to the effect "It was no big deal, they had parachutes".

[DocRock]

"Tradition dictates that the khukhri knife must always taste blood if it is unsheathed; and hence its owner will slice his own finger to satisfy tradition."

Wow. It took over 30 posts for that little tidbit of trivia to surface. I wondered how long it would take. More people should know. Thanks

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I don't mean to sound dumb, but are they from our country?

Answer is: it depends. You from Ghurkistan?

[warsaw44]

By far one of the most feared units in WWII

[montomike]

Londo and the Centauris had the same tradition!

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

About 1962 there was unrest in Brunei just as Britain was beginning the process of granting them Independence. The British Governor General, the Sultan, and the General Staff decided it would take a Brigade of British troops to keep the unrest down or one Battalion of the Royal Gurkha Rifles. They went with the Gurkha's.

I also believe the Gurkha's are the only Regiment other than the Household Guards to guard Buckingham Palace in modern times. However I was told this last item by a former British officer 20 years ago and have no personal knowledge of it.

[sukhoi-30mki]

That is because more Gurkhas serve in the Indian military & paramilitaries than the Royal Army or even their own army(which uses Indian weapons like the INSAS).