Gurkha awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross.

Accendo said:
I was told a story about the Gurkhas by a former work colleague, I can't fully recall what battle/war it was but they were being given orders through a translator and the mission was they were to be flown in and dropped out of planes from 1000 feet, the translator went to give them the orders, he came back and said the men think this is a tad unreasonable but they were willing to drop from 500 feet, they didn't realise they would be using parachutes :eek:

Extremely brave men indeed.
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One day you'll realise that people talk utter **** in pubs.
 
the guy held a GPMG and fired it for 250 rounds ?

Absolute legend.

I've tried to hold one before and damn near dropped it because it was that heavy. And he was using it !!!
 
Gotta say I still don't understand the whole story - the Guardian isn't that clear / gives him nothing more than a fleeting paragragh.

Rather than copy snippets from The Times' website, could the op or anybody else copy/paste the whole thing please?
 
My maths teacher used to be in the raf and he oftern used to talk about the training days with the gurkha's. They used to play a game of hide and seek where if the gurkahs found every one of them before 20minutes they would have to buy them all drinks. One time they left one guy who had wedged him self between two rocks and instead tied his shoe laces together just to really freak him out when he came out of hiding thinking he'd won ;).

Apparently you just couldn't hide from them. He also used to speak of 6ft 5 soldiers going flying across the room after insulting the gurhkers.
 
Read about this earlier, but didnt realise until I saw the news that this happened in the middle of the night and most of the base was asleep. Fair effort.
 
Disgraceful behaviour tbh, I hope he gets the sack. Do these Gurkhas not take the military's budget cuts seriously? They should take a leaf out of the snipers' book and start getting double kills per bullet.
 
from that article too

Royal Marine Captain Jack Anrude receives the Military Cross after he carried a badly wounded Afghan soldier to safety despite himself being shot in the head and arm.
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O.o
 
Overslop said:
Disgraceful behaviour tbh, I hope he gets the sack. Do these Gurkhas not take the military's budget cuts seriously? They should take a leaf out of the snipers' book and start getting double kills per bullet.
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LOL. just place an ammo box next to me and a medic behind me and I will take them all out bad company 2 style :p

but seriously, that guy is a hero.

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Tefal said:
from that article too




O.o
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lolwut?!
 
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