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2006-10-05 Afghanistan
Gurkha spirit triumphs in siege of Nawzad
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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-05 09:05|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 OT : btw, if anyone wishes to purchase a nepalese kukri, khukuri, kukuri, whatever you spell it, check this website, or its sister website; S&H to the USA would be about $35; there's also this ebay seller, or this well-known importer.

Nope, I'm not getting any money out of this shameless plug, but these are nice short swords.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-05 09:14||   2006-10-05 09:14|| Front Page Top

#2 DO THEY GET ANY MORE BADASS THAN THE GURKHAS?
Posted by BK 2006-10-05 09:23||   2006-10-05 09:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Let the Gurkha's practice one of their old traditions. Sneak over to a Talibunnie position at night and lop off a few heads with their kukris.
Posted by Steve 2006-10-05 09:27||   2006-10-05 09:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I've already got one, A5089. They DO make a nice short sword and they work well for a lot of things. Bought one after I read John Masters' Bugles and a Tiger
Posted by mac 2006-10-05 10:16||   2006-10-05 10:16|| Front Page Top

#5 I've got three, one shiny new I bought last year, and a couple quite used ones (one traditional I broke the tip throwing it, one military issue I used back in the olden days to chop wood instead of an hatchet) which were given to me by my ex-uncle in law, who had been a gurkha in a former life (he enlisted at 14-15, not sure about his own age, fought one indo-pakistanese war, the 1971 one I'd think, and supposedly killed 12 ennemies, "7 with his rifle, and 5 wuith his knfe", or the other way around, can't remember); btw, he really disliked muslims (worked in the UAE, got threatened by Youths to have his throat slitted if he ate pork right after he got out of plane), and told me beheading them prevented them to enter paradise.
Posted by anonymous5089 2006-10-05 10:38||   2006-10-05 10:38|| Front Page Top

#6 The whole damn village is conspirng. Make an example. Execute all of them.
Posted by SpecOp35 2006-10-05 10:43||   2006-10-05 10:43|| Front Page Top

#7 Amaing what happens when the Lions of Islam try to fight real men instead women and children.
Posted by RWV 2006-10-05 11:16||   2006-10-05 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 AYO GURKHALI!
Posted by mojo">mojo  2006-10-05 11:26||   2006-10-05 11:26|| Front Page Top

#9 "beheading them prevented them to enter paradise."

Anonymous5089,
I think you found a solution to our problem.

Al
Posted by Frozen Al 2006-10-05 11:34||   2006-10-05 11:34|| Front Page Top

#10 Aye, it's Kukri time for the Talibunnies. Go get em.....
Posted by Howard UK 2006-10-05 11:45||   2006-10-05 11:45|| Front Page Top

#11 Mac. Read Bugles and a Tiger years ago, and several times since.
I highly recommend it. I believe it's available from Amazon, where it is reviewed by, among others, me.
Good view of the old Brit regimental system, fighting on the Northwest Frontier (same names as now), Sandhurst, and a long praise of Gurkhas.
Well written. After Masters retired, he became a writer. "Bhowani Junction", probably his most well-known book, was a movie with, among others, Ava Gardner.

"Bugles... is a terrific book.
Posted by Richard Aubrey">Richard Aubrey  2006-10-05 12:04||   2006-10-05 12:04|| Front Page Top

#12 I've always had real admiration for Gurkhas. As a child I lived in a little village in India that didn't have police, per se, but had 1 (one) Gurkha night watchman. Non-domestic and property crime was virtually unheard of. I always felt safe hearing his boots crunching through the gravel paths as he made his rounds. To this day that sound gives me a feeling of security.

/nostalgic reverie
Posted by xbalanke 2006-10-05 12:17||   2006-10-05 12:17|| Front Page Top

#13 The Argies filed a complaint with the UN about the use of the Gurkhas in the Falklands.

These guys should be out patrolling. It's their type of territory.
Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins  2006-10-05 12:17|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org]  2006-10-05 12:17|| Front Page Top

#14 xbalanka: Thanks for sharing! If you've not done so already, I would encourage you to write! The story of the Gurkhas is indeed an amazing one. Should be required reading for all ranks.
Posted by Besoeker 2006-10-05 12:20||   2006-10-05 12:20|| Front Page Top

#15 It must have taken a great deal of discipline to keep those Gurkhas inside the compound instead of going out and just *butchering* their enemies.

That can be problematic with Gurkhas, and all. Not much for taking prisoners unless explicitly ordered to do so.
Posted by Anonymoose 2006-10-05 14:07||   2006-10-05 14:07|| Front Page Top

#16 "An American aircraft dropped a 2,000lb bomb on the spot and that ended the mortar fire."

Logicians recognize this as "cause and effect".
Posted by Spotch Cromp1374 2006-10-05 14:59||   2006-10-05 14:59|| Front Page Top

#17 I'm puzzled why the USAF didn't level the entire town of Nawzad around the platoon house. 28 attacks over 10 days? Why did they hold back?
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2006-10-05 15:58||   2006-10-05 15:58|| Front Page Top

#18 "a bullet went through the gunsight and hit him in the face. "His commander called for him to be medi-vacced out, but he refused to come down from the roof," said Major Rex. "Later he was again hit, this time in the helmet. He sat down and had a cigarette, then went back to his position."

DAMN! Nos THAT is a helluva soldier no matter the stripe.
Posted by Oldspook 2006-10-05 18:36||   2006-10-05 18:36|| Front Page Top

#19 I'm sure he'll be condemned by the anti-smoking nannies, who aren't fit to wash his feet


and no, I don't smoke cigarettes
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2006-10-05 19:12||   2006-10-05 19:12|| Front Page Top

#20 Professionals vs. armed idiots.
Posted by Darrell 2006-10-05 19:39||   2006-10-05 19:39|| Front Page Top

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