I wouldn’t invade Nepal if I were you
Tman sends us a link about Nepalese Corporal Dipprasad Pun, 31, THE BADDEST DUDE ON THE PLANET who was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for single-handedly killing 31 Taliban who attacked his checkpoint;
Pun fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine to repel the Taliban assault on his checkpoint near Babaji in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, last September.
Surrounded, the enemy opened fired from all sides and for 15 minutes Pun remained under continuous attack, including from rocket-propelled grenades and AK47 guns.
At one point, unable to shoot, he used his machine gun tripod to knock down a militant who was climbing the walls of the compound.
Two insurgents were still attacking by the time he ran out of ammunition, but he set off a Claymore mine to repel them.
Pun was given his medal in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London on Wednesday.
If just one of those little dudes can bring that kind of death and destruction, imagine what an Army of them can do.
Category: Real Soldiers
I hope they do a “Bad Ass of the Week” thing on him.
He’s a browner version of Bellavia.
A Spartan I would love to have on my team!!
And he didn’t even get to use his Kukri!
I worked with those guys in Bosnia. We were doing riot control training and a demonstration. I remember their Sergeant Major telling the OPFOR “first throw bricks, then throw the grenades; don’t throw them both at the same time.” That was the safety brief. Then sure enough, the Gurkhas came out of the vehicles, and the OPFOR started tossing real, honest to God bricks. After that, the OPFOR started lighting Molotov cocktails and threw them into the Gurkha formation. We thought that they were crazy, but, after that, we knew that they were crazy. I have pictures of the whole thing somewhere.
There is a story that the Gurkhas wanted to guard the Army Air Corps at Hickam field during WW-II. They were turned down at their first request. The next morning one man in each 2 man foxhole had paint on his boot, and no one saw anyone. They got the job.
Hey, the most powerful empire in history didn’t spend 300 years climbing up to the top of the world and begging them to soldier for Queen and Country for no reason.
BTW, if he got a CGC for this, what the hell does a Gurkha have to do to get a VC?
I second the nomination for “Bad Ass of the Week”
There was a story a couple months back, that I believe I sent to Jonn, about a RETIRED Gurkha on a train that was held up by approx. 40 bandits. When they got to his car, a couple of them wanted to have their way with the teen girl sitting next to him, that’s when he broke out his Kukri and went to work, killing a couple and wounding several more before the rest fled from the train.
And the “Hard as Supermans Dick Award goes to…
I remember reading John Ringo’s “the Last Centurion” and wondering if any group of people (“Nepos” as he calls them) could be that. . . hard core. I found out, yes, yes they could.
One small man, with one hell of a big HOOAH!
OK, so am I the only one who thought “why would they make such a badass wear such a dorky cover?”
#13: Because they can? It must be something held over from the Gurkha regimental uniform during the 19th century. Just like the Scottish troops being allowed to wear the tartan kilts common to them from when they first raised to serve in the British Army, it is a sign of respect for the fighting abilities of these troops.
@13: The same reason the French Foreign Legion wears those “dorky” white covers. Tradition.
@Old Trooper: this is what your talking about, I remember the story http://www.defence.pk/forums/india-defence/90941-lone-nepali-gorkha-who-subdued-40-train-robbers.html
Bobo, to answer your question
http://www.thekhukurihouse.com/Content/VCHolders.php