Rambo Gurkha in solo Taliban blitz

[CardSharp]

The Gurkhas have been involved in almost every conflict that the British Army has deployed to in the last 200 years. We do not seek publicity - we like to work through quiet professionalism, maintaining the highest standards on operations, whatever they may bring.

Our battle honours are proudly displayed on the Regimental bass drum, but they do not tell the whole story. The men in the battalion today and their forebears have served with distinction in many conflicts not listed such as Cyprus, Borneo, Malaya, the Falklands, Ivory Coast, Congo, East Timor, Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

The battalion's most recent operational deployment has been to Afghanistan on Operation HERRICK. 1 RGR is the current deployed battalion and will be in theatre until November 2010.

RGR on Operations - British Army Website

This is amazing. British colonial racial manipulation and exploitation still works today.

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

Is that a rhetorical statement or do you have a quantitative record or objective data to establish this?

The Gurkhas have a great tradition, but I think calling them unmatched might be significantly over the top.

It is both a rhetorical statement and I have data Quantitative to establish this to a large extent.......


Credits : from a book by Journalist John Parker ( Note : all statistics are well researched and documented...)
Excerpts :

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

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[Urbanized Greyhound]

and the people interviewed for this compilation :

a few other links :

Gurkha welfare trust :

Home | Gurkha Welfare Trust

and the U.K military website about gurkha brigades :

British Army Website

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

Judging by the history of the British Army involved in conflicts around the Globe over 3 centuries gurkhas have a distinguished record of combat , much greater than any other comparable group ......

 

[Icarus]

I personally have great respect for Gurkhas, I have been posted against them in the 2002-03 Pak-India Tensions and found them to be worthy adversaries. No offence but I was disappointed by the Marathi units, I expected unparalleled challenges from the men whose ancestors brought the Mughal Empire to it's knees but the Marathas were easily battered.

 

[Indian Gurkha]

My grandfather served both under the British and then in the Indian forces not in the army though but in the RPF and he used to say that nobody could beat him in sprint (running) and all his comrades and officers were amazed at how active he was. Sadly he passsed away 4 months earlier . May he RIP. Although I agree that courage and bravery cannot be attributed to race alone. But what sets us Gurkhas apart is the simplicity and loyalty we possess.

 

[U-571]

im surprised at ghurkas, they look like chinese, but their bravery is like pakistani tribal pathans, or i dunnoo!

 

[barcelona]

As far as sayin goes this 1 for jaats adhaya padhaya jaat solah duni atha

 

[Urbanized Greyhound]

To all interested.....

The book by John Parkar which details all the exploits of the Gurkha's right from the House of Prithvi Narayan shahdev , to their campaigns in the First and second world wars under the union jack ,to their exploits in malaya , the falkland war, Bosnia as part of the Nato , Iraq and Afghanistan as part of the Nato, rescue of British civilians in Sierra Lione...Ivory coast .

The Gurkhas by John Parker, ISBN 9780755314157 - QBD The Bookshop


To all interested in History and exploits of Gurkhas in the Indian army check the Indian army archives for the Sino-Indian war ( Last stand at Thangla - the brigade of gallants which was posthumously praised by Chinese officers accompanying their corpses) , Chola incident etc.

and apologies to all for being unable to post scanned images from the aforementioned book due to some technical error on the forum.......

 

[KS]

I personally have great respect for Gurkhas, I have been posted against them in the 2002-03 Pak-India Tensions and found them to be worthy adversaries. No offence but I was disappointed by the Marathi units, I expected unparalleled challenges from the men whose ancestors brought the Mughal Empire to it's knees but the Marathas were easily battered.

Can you throw light on the incidents ?? Would like to know more.

Also another important thing is Maratha Regiments are not entirely composed of Marathas themselves...I heard from my friend in the Army that Maratha Regiments are one of the most diverse regiments..ie., jawans from all parts of the country will be in that in contrats to some regiments like Gorkha,Sikh regs which are relatively more homogenous.

 

[LaBong]

My grandfather served both under the British and then in the Indian forces not in the army though but in the RPF and he used to say that nobody could beat him in sprint (running) and all his comrades and officers were amazed at how active he was. Sadly he passsed away 4 months earlier . May he RIP. Although I agree that courage and bravery cannot be attributed to race alone. But what sets us Gurkhas apart is the simplicity and loyalty we possess.

I agree to this, gurkha's known as their famous trait of religiously adherence to rules and orders. In a combat this is more important than any bravery!

 

[CardSharp]

I agree to this, gurkha's known as their famous trait of religiously adherence to rules and orders. In a combat this is more important than any bravery!

Isn't it convenient that one of the values the British ascribe to a colonial population is the adherence to rules and loyalty. Nice and docile, die when you're told, for very people who dominated and raped your people.

What good is bravery when it stems out of stupidity?

 

[Capt.Popeye]

Isn't it convenient that one of the values the British ascribe to a colonial population is the adherence to rules and loyalty. Nice and docile, die when you're told, for very people who dominated and raped your people.

What good is bravery when it stems out of stupidity?

Actually your logic is quite sound. If you analytically approach the situation- soldiering is in fact stupidity. So by corollary, dying on the battlefield (bravely or not) is also stupidity.
Adherence to rules, discipline, laws etc. strikes at the very basis of human nature does'nt it?

 

[LaBong]

Isn't it convenient that one of the values the British ascribe to a colonial population is the adherence to rules and loyalty. Nice and docile, die when you're told, for very people who dominated and raped your people.

What good is bravery when it stems out of stupidity?

That would be subservient if you consider it in a civilian perspective, but in Army things are different where officers and their subordinates share an unique relationship . A British officers would have hauled the living guts out of his own countryman had he made a racial comment to the gurkha subedar.

Also the concept of 'your people' was kind of murky at that time.