Posted on 06/02/2011 8:44:41 AM PDT by Daffynition
Britain's newest hero is a Nepali.
Queen Elizabeth II on Wednesday awarded Britain's second-highest award for bravery, the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, to Acting Sgt. Dipprasad Pun of the Royal Gurkha Rifles.
While stationed as a lone sentry at a checkpoint in Afghanistan's Helmand province on September 17, Pun fended off an attack by up to 30 Taliban fighters.
"There were many Taliban around me," Pun said in an interview with British Forces News. "I thought they are definitely going to kill me. ... I thought before they kill me I have to kill some of them."
During the 15-minute battle, Pun fired more than 400 rounds of ammunition, detonated 17 grenades and a mine and even threw his gun tripod at a Taliban fighter climbing toward his position, according to British Forces News.
"He was just about to climb up there and I hit (him) with my tripod and he fell down again," Pun told British Forces News
(Excerpt) Read more at news.blogs.cnn.com ...
I'd be proud to serve with this man.
I know this probably isn't the thread to ask, but this reminded me of something.....Hasn't the Obama administration started to give out "medals" for soldiers who hold their fire against the enemy?
I have worked with some former Gurka soldiers in Iraq, they are fine soldiers.
Pun pwns.
wow,
that taliban guy was lucky he just got a tripod, becuase if he had made it further up, this hero would have taken out the famed gurkha knife and taliban ‘tripod’ would have lost some ‘equipment’ that meant he would be going to bed early with a good book for all eternity rather than annoying the 72 virgins
What is it about them that makes them such great soldiers?
FWIW, left wing freaks at Snopes have told us it’s not true. They claim it originated with “NATO” and not the fraud-in-chief.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/restraint.asp
Sounds like the kind of stuff Audie Murphy was decorated for. He once held off an entire company of Germans while his platoon made their escape.
A really good pun will cause near physical pain.
This Pun caused REAL pain. :)
For starters, they’re all volunteers in the truest sense of the word. Villages in Nepal condiuct their own tryouts before sending candidates for screening by the British Army. Only the best make the local cut, and only the cream of that crop are selected by the Brits. I’ve been told that soime village elders tell their candidates “don’t bother to come back” if they’re not selected by the Brits.
During the Falklands Wae, the Brits used the Ghurkas as a terror weapon. They would infiltrate Argentine lines at night and silently kill a few of the enemy. In the morning, the Argentines would find their dead comrades and the obvious indicators of Ghurka handiwork.
The Argentine soldiwrs reportedlu feared the Ghurkas more than anything else the Brits used against them—including the SAS.
Good thing he wasn’t an American. He’d be charged with kidnapping.
Pretty sad.
Too bad the current taliban are so ignorant of history. 100 years ago, 30 mujahid would have wisely just cut and run if they even thought they were facing a Gurkha.
See post 17 and the link
The Gurkha motto is “Better to die than be a coward”.
Great link. Thank you.
Even the Brits couldn’t subdue them.
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