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2007-06-27 Britain

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Posted by Seafarious 2007-06-27 00:48|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Wimin with Khukris??? Nearly as frightening as the following reported to me yesterday:

The female Apache pilot and fiancee of a local Captain recently phoned her future husband, also a pilot, and reported that she was "very upset." Still distraught and angry the morning after, she informed him that she had "just killed three enemy combatants on her last sortie." Her fiancee attempted to console his Apache bride, only to have her retort, "NO!..... it's not that damn it! The 4th one got away!"

Posted by Besoeker 2007-06-27 02:14|| 2007-06-27 02:14|| Front Page Top

#2 LOL

Made my day!

Posted by John Frum 2007-06-27 05:55|| 2007-06-27 05:55|| Front Page Top

#3 I have a good friend from law school who's an ethnic Gurkha. His wife (also a Gurkha) is a babe, and they have two cute kids. Nice guy, generous, lively sense of humor, one of the best Americans-born-in-the-wrong-place you'd ever meet. Wouldn't hurt a fly.

Give him an assault rifle and tell him to take a ridge line, though, and Mama, look out!

Posted by Mike 2007-06-27 07:09|| 2007-06-27 07:09|| Front Page Top

#4 GM Fraser, in his memoir about WWII in SE Asia "Quartered Safe Out Here" wrote with affection and respect about the Gurkas. Especially one incident where a company of them charged a grove of trees with a lot of Japanese soldiers holed up in it. He said they charged at a dead run, screaming like maniacs... and just before they hit the trees, about half of them threw away their rifles and went in with their knives, only!

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-06-27 08:20|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-06-27 08:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Like this, sgt Mom?

Posted by GK 2007-06-27 08:50|| 2007-06-27 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Just like that... dropped their rifles and hit the trees. And when they came out again, there were hardly any Japanese left. Well, left alive, anyway.

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2007-06-27 09:15|| www.ncobrief.com]">[www.ncobrief.com] 2007-06-27 09:15|| Front Page Top

#7 The US has been missing an opportunity here. I figure that we could create a "Reservation" for the Aleuts up in the Aleutians, on condition that they lease one of those islands for the US to set up a Gurkha Regiment, somewhat like the French Foreign Legion. The Gurkhas are from a cold, mountainous region, so the Aleutians would be pretty close to what they are used to.

Then we could rent a Caribbean island for several regiments of hot weather Sikhs.

The idea is that we could have a very rapid, faster than the US military, reaction force to send to all sorts of places around the world where we are not particularly thrilled about sending American troops. Since most of the trouble spots are hot weather, we would need more Sikhs, but Ghurkhas would be available for cold region troubles.

We could send them on the endless "humanitarian" and "peacekeeping" missions around the world, with far less trouble than US troops.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-06-27 10:05|| 2007-06-27 10:05|| Front Page Top

#8 OK, but I wouldn't mind them becoming citizens and having their families contribute to our society.

Good people. There's a small Sikh community in our area. Local paper did a story on two teens who are finding their way through their spiritual identity. They have to AFFIRM Sikh beliefs and ASK for baptism when they are ready. Until then, they can (and do) eat meat etc. which is forbidden to Sikhs.

In other words, discipline, hard work, strong families and free choice in belief and action. What's not to like? These teens are blending their culture of origin with customs here quite comfortably, switching among languages, dress and music with ease.

Posted by lotp 2007-06-27 10:13|| 2007-06-27 10:13|| Front Page Top

#9 Ayo Gurkhali!

Posted by mojo">mojo 2007-06-27 10:41|| 2007-06-27 10:41|| Front Page Top

#10 The Maoist revolution in Nepal was female based.
Are these women from the Maoist group?

Posted by 3dc 2007-06-27 10:51|| 2007-06-27 10:51|| Front Page Top

#11 The tribe is apparently not very fond of the Maoists, 3dc.

Posted by Abdominal Snowman 2007-06-27 11:41|| 2007-06-27 11:41|| Front Page Top

#12 Hey Abdominal, I heard on the radio that there is a new expedition to catch you and take a few measurements and DNA and such. So, lay off the narcotics for a while, and try to take a shower.

Posted by wxjames 2007-06-27 14:52|| 2007-06-27 14:52|| Front Page Top

#13 chicks w/knives, now that's hot.

Posted by Broadhead6 2007-06-27 23:28|| 2007-06-27 23:28|| Front Page Top

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