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400 Rounds, 17 Grenades, & 30 Enemies: Soldier Single-Handedly Beats Back Taliban Barrage
The Blaze ^ | 3/25/11 | Jonathon M. Seidl

Posted on 03/25/2011 2:48:06 PM PDT by Nachum

It took him 400 rounds, 17 grenades, and a machine gun tripod used as a weapon, but one British Gurkha soldier single-handedly beat back an attack by 30 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last summer. And now he‘s getting one of his military’s highest honors:

Sergeant Dipprasad Pun, a 31-year-old from Bima in western Nepa and part of the Gurkha regiment serving the British Military, is receiving the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for bravery. It’s well deserved. According to his superiors, Pun’s fearsom fighting is responsible for saving the lives of at least three other soldiers.

Yesterday, he explained his unbelievable battle (via the London Telegraph). Not only is he brave, but he’s also ingenious. At one point during the fighting, after running out of bullets, he fought off an attacker using a pole from a machine gun tripod:

Sgt Pun told yesterday how he was on guard duty at the base near Rahim Kalay in Helmand Province on September 10 last year when he heard a digging sound in the darkness in front of him.

Grabbing two radios, a GPMP machine gun, his SA80 rifle, a grenade launcher and an arsenal of hand-held grenades he climbed onto the rooftop and opened fire.

(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...


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KEYWORDS: badassitude; enemies; grenades; rounds; soldier
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To: Nachum
I recall during the Falkland Island war the only troops that landed on Argentine soil were 100 Gurkha's with their Khukuri.

There were 1,000 Argentine soldiers with rifles.

When the Argentine soldiers saw the Gurkha's the dropped their rifles and fled.

Nice!

21 posted on 03/25/2011 3:23:49 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: Nachum
And here's another heroic warrior

I have seen both stories posted by Second Amendment Task Force T-Shirts on FBook. Great stuff!

22 posted on 03/25/2011 3:27:33 PM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.conservativedna.com/)
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To: rabidralph
Here's the other story.
23 posted on 03/25/2011 3:28:19 PM PDT by rabidralph (http://www.conservativedna.com/)
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner
This is the real deal.


24 posted on 03/25/2011 3:31:34 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: Nachum

Ha, that was funny. The Taliban must have gotten bad intel thinking only 30 of them could take a Gurkha. They must have thought they were fighting a burka; I can see where they’d be confused. I want to buy that soldier a case of Scotch.


25 posted on 03/25/2011 3:42:16 PM PDT by ronnyquest (Barack H. Obama is the Manchurian Candidate. What are you going to do about it?)
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To: Nachum

Just wondering why he didn’t get the VC...


26 posted on 03/25/2011 3:45:39 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: Nachum

I said it this morning, and I reiterate:
Chuck Norris wears Gurkha pajamas.


27 posted on 03/25/2011 4:09:33 PM PDT by JRios1968 (Laz would hit it!)
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To: CIB-173RDABN
The Gurkha replied, ‘Parachutes? No-one mentioned parachutes!’

I think in WWII, the red army made low altitude drops without parachutes directly into snow.

28 posted on 03/25/2011 4:19:50 PM PDT by fso301
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To: cripplecreek
How do you say “Bad ass” in Nepalese?

Average Joe Pradish.

29 posted on 03/25/2011 4:55:19 PM PDT by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/15/08 and why?)
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To: cripplecreek
How do you say “Bad ass” in Nepalese?

Gurkha

30 posted on 03/25/2011 5:53:27 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Palin 2012: don't retreat, just restock [chg'd to comply w/ The Civility in Discourse Act of 2011])
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To: Nachum

I thought the Brits had phased out the Gurkha regiments years ago when they gave up Hong Kong.


31 posted on 03/25/2011 7:26:46 PM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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