Ok..i dont have any more brave incidents(out of stock
) to share but there is an incident which my friend told me which he experienced while serving in the RR.
He was going on a operation in a jungle and in between the jungle there was a kind of bunker made so that troops can relax and prepare their food and then move on.So they reached the bunker and prepared the food.Everyone was having their food there only ie near the bunker but he decided to go to a higher spot and eat..being the Ambush commander he wanted to make sure that everythings fine and wanted to keep an eye.
He started having his dinner which was a non veg meal and he says he was enjoying the sunset and the wonderful meal they had cooked when suddenly he saw a leopard in front of him staring...obviously the fragrance would have spread.He said that he continued staring and did not move from that place.He had his AK with him but didnt want to kill the leopard unnecesarily...so he decided to suddenly shout in a lod voice and it worked.The leopard started backing off and went away.
It was nice to know that IA jawans regularly face leopards while patrolling or in ambush but keeping the preservation of wildlife in mind they never try to do any harm to them and with Gods grace even after facing such encounters the jawans manage to keep their cool and not press the trigger.Sad thing though is that Army tames the street dogs there coz they act as a warning in the night and start barking even at the slightest of noise but the Leopards are very fond of eating these dogs and sometimes these Leopards are even said to come too close to the bunkers just to hunt these dogs.