Posted on 10/02/2001 4:47:51 PM PDT by jslade
Heard on Nightly News with Tom Lockjaw tonight that the British are bringing in up to 20,000 Gurka troops for service in Afganistan. Now, if history serves me right, these are some of the most frightening, blood-thirsty, efficient, killers on the planet. I have read many exploits of the Gurkas from WWII and Korea. Would love the hear of more Gurka stories.
Charge!
Hoppy
That may be a legacy of the days when the Gourka Regiments were officered by the Scots(another blood-thirsty race)
THE GURKAS are some real bad A$$ killers they know how to make an enemy SUFFER EXTREME PAINI find comments like these to be chock-full of ignorance and gung-ho attitude. The Ghurkhas are superb soldiers and warriors with an indomitable reputation, but that does not make them 'bad a$$ killers', or people that make the enemy 'SUFFER EXTREME PAIN'. All I've ever heard of the Ghurkhas is that they're polite, friendly and humourous. Do you really think that the British and all those who have served with Ghurkhas would show respect and admiration for them if these people really were murderous killing machines? No.
WRONG What a person is can also be what a person does and if you dont think gurkas are bloodthirsty in battle go f**k with one and see what happens as for trying to philosify what a person does in battle or who a person is in peacetime who really gives a shat as long as in wartime they do their duty as well as they do their job in peacetime
and THE GURKAS ARE SOME BADA$$ KILLERS
She was a damsel of delicate mold
With hair like sunshine and a heart of gold
Little she knew that the arms that embraced
Had cloven a man from the brow to the waist
And little she knew that those loving lips
Had ordered a quivering life's eclipse
Or that the eyes that lit at her lightest breath
Had glared unawed in the gates of death
For these are the things that a man must hide
As a general rule from an innocent bride
And then there are loudmouths.
who ever you are i am from nepal and myself a gorkha . first read our history . i think we need people like you to see us in trenches and jungles and actual beheading of a human being by our khukuris then you will change your mentality aout us . what to do man we need to fight ,its in our blood . and if we are also paid for it it is more ok .
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