One Gurkha VS 40 Bandits - Guess who wins?
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htinf/articles/20110203.aspx
This is so cool!
(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)
This is so cool!
(Thanks for the link, Dennis!)
posted by mendip at
1:57 PM
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We should make a collection of Gurkha stories.
Although the Brits would know the most, no one in this country appreciates their special attitude.'
Field marshal Bill Slim transferred to the Gurkhas shortly after World War I and had great respect and affection for them.
During the Burma campaing, there was a crisis. One position was in great danger and needed reinforcements.
The position did not have an airstrip, supplies had to be airdropped, so the reinforcements would have to parachute in.
The only unit available quickly was a Gurkha battalion, which had never been trained for parachuting.
Still, he had great faith in them, and there was no other choice.
After the unit was briefed, the Sergeant Major came up to the Field Marshal.
He relayed a request from the troopers that they wished to fly over the strip at a height lower than the stipulated five-hundred feet.
Slim replied that 500 feet was the bare minimum that the parachutes could open in.
"Oh," said the havildar, "We get to use parachutes?"
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