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 hes getting one of his militarys 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. Its well deserved. According to his superiors, Puns 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 hes 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 ...
There were 1,000 Argentine soldiers with rifles.
When the Argentine soldiers saw the Gurkha's the dropped their rifles and fled.
Nice!
I have seen both stories posted by Second Amendment Task Force T-Shirts on FBook. Great stuff!
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.
Just wondering why he didn’t get the VC...
I said it this morning, and I reiterate:
Chuck Norris wears Gurkha pajamas.
I think in WWII, the red army made low altitude drops without parachutes directly into snow.
Average Joe Pradish.
Gurkha
I thought the Brits had phased out the Gurkha regiments years ago when they gave up Hong Kong.
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