Ranbir Kaur
Gutsy Lady
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| 2005-03-14 | |
An India-born Sikh teenager from California is among the women who are set to trade their makeup kits for an M-16 rifle so as to join the US military in Iraq. Nineteen-year old Ranbir Kaur is a part-time college student from the San Joaquin Valley town of Earlimart in California. By summer's end, she expects to put her textbooks aside and serve as a supply clerk in Iraq. It was the limits of life in a sedate San Joaquin Valley farm town that spurred Kaur to join the California National Guard in late 2002, two days after her 17th birthday and more than a year before she graduated from Delano High. The $3,000 bonus she got for enlisting was yet another important factor. The daughter of Sikh grape farmers, Kaur emigrated at age seven from India to the Bay Area, then moved to Earlimart, a dusty burg of 6,600, about 40 miles from Bakersfield, 70 miles from Fresno.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #15 Sikhs are badasses - warrior society at its basis in order to defend thier right to worship as they please against all others in thier region. They taught their women and children miltary and martial arts throughout history. I presume they keep this tradition. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-14 1:10:55 AM |
| #14 Sikhs are badasses - warrior society at its basis in order to defend thier right to worship as they please against all others in thier region. They taught their women and children miltary and martial arts throughout history. I presume they keep this tradition. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-14 1:10:55 AM |
| #13 How sad will it be for the bad guyz to be beaten by a pretty, young grrrl like her? Even if she does start out as a supply clerk. Interestingly, there are a bunch of Sikh kids at T. Daughter's tae kwan do school, both boys and girls. They all take it pretty seriously, too. Miss Kaur may no longer be a curiosity in a few years :-D |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-03-14 10:07:34 PM |
| #12 Ranbir Kaur Gutsy Lady |
| Posted by: BigEd 2005-03-14 2:11:23 PM |
| #11 A British Sikh Regiment? http://www.sikhreview.org/september2001/diaspora.htm |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-03-14 1:25:59 PM |
| #10 Yes, her Sikh bodyguard turned on Indira after she ordered a 'Waco' style assault upon their most holy site. Ooops. |
| Posted by: Snung Snuth2112 2005-03-14 12:15:04 PM |
| #9 Now the terrs are really screwed. A Sikh with PMS. peggy, they did kill Indira Ghandi, I think. |
| Posted by: Chuck Simmins 2005-03-14 11:36:41 AM |
| #8 I have never heard of any problems from Sihks unless someone was really messing with them. They are not the types to imagine or exagerate their victimhood nor do they seem to see conspiracies whereever they look. They integrate nicely whereever they are found. Methinks there is another community who could learn a big lesson from them and the Hindus too. I wonder why our supposedly hostile society has no problems with any other creed except for the you know who's. Funny isn't it? Couldn't possibly be because they act like assholes. Nah, it's us that has the problem. Riiiiiight! |
| Posted by: peggy 2005-03-14 9:24:27 AM |
| #7 You go, girl! Immigrants from India seem to be doing well here, both benefiting and contributing. Good to have them. |
| Posted by: too true 2005-03-14 8:57:52 AM |
| #6 Go Sikh 'em, girl. |
| Posted by: Jackal 2005-03-14 8:51:53 AM |
| #5 little bit of history on Sikhs and British army . The end paragraph sums it up for me.. "As a legacy Sikhs were encouraged to settle in the UK and today they form a responsible and vibrant part of contemporary society." *cheer* |
| Posted by: MacNails 2005-03-14 5:48:10 AM |
| #4 Many Sikhs live and prosper in Kern County. They are pretty well intigrated. Like alot of rural kids in our county entering the military is an normal part of becoming and adult. |
| Posted by: FlameBait 2005-03-14 2:45:55 AM |
| #2 Sikhs are badasses - warrior society at its basis in order to defend thier right to worship as they please against all others in thier region. They taught their women and children miltary and martial arts throughout history. I presume they keep this tradition. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2005-03-14 1:10:55 AM |
| #1 The Sikhs have a long military tradition and like the Hindus are relaxed about women having careers. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2005-03-14 12:06:24 AM |