Ghurkas and what sets them apart.
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Anyone else listen to Jeremy Vine this lunch time?*
He was speaking to the chairman of the (IIRC) British Ghurka Welfare Trust about the situation in Nepal.
Vine: "So what are your immediate thoughts about what's happened?"
Ghurka (without a hint of hesitation):
"Well our religious training tells us to stay calm and think with an open mind....."
And that's in addition to the "A big guy with a little knife and a frown isn't nearly as intimidating as a little guy with a big knife and a smile" thing.
*I don't normally listen to Whiney Viney and his fish wives, but I was up a ladder, painting so just let it run....ok?
He was speaking to the chairman of the (IIRC) British Ghurka Welfare Trust about the situation in Nepal.
Vine: "So what are your immediate thoughts about what's happened?"
Ghurka (without a hint of hesitation):
"Well our religious training tells us to stay calm and think with an open mind....."
And that's in addition to the "A big guy with a little knife and a frown isn't nearly as intimidating as a little guy with a big knife and a smile" thing.
*I don't normally listen to Whiney Viney and his fish wives, but I was up a ladder, painting so just let it run....ok?
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 28th April 15:47
This may well be a forces urban legend but I sorely hope its true
The Ghurkas and Marines (IIRC) were on a joint Escape and Evasion exercise, the Marines the escapees the Ghurkas the hunters
A Marine finds a massive bush, cuts himself a small entry, ties the offcuts into a plug to bung the hole and hides in this bush for 48 hours.
The whistles sounds and 'END EX' is shouted. Mr Marine all chuffed with himself crawls out and stands up to return to the trucks. Only to find his shoelaces had been tied together whilst he slept by a Ghurka.
The Ghurkas and Marines (IIRC) were on a joint Escape and Evasion exercise, the Marines the escapees the Ghurkas the hunters
A Marine finds a massive bush, cuts himself a small entry, ties the offcuts into a plug to bung the hole and hides in this bush for 48 hours.
The whistles sounds and 'END EX' is shouted. Mr Marine all chuffed with himself crawls out and stands up to return to the trucks. Only to find his shoelaces had been tied together whilst he slept by a Ghurka.
R8VXF said:
badassoftheweek.com said:
This was Die Hard without the cowboy references. Delta Force without Lee Marvin. Under Siege without the Dramamine. And Passenger 57 without the always betting on black thing.
^^^
Urban military myth also tells of a bunch of Ghurkas being briefed for "jumping out of a Hercules at low level, landing in the sea" with the height of the drop being 500 feet or so.
Lots of muttering amongst the Ghurkas after which their nominated spokesman steps up and asks the PJIs if they can reduce that height to 100 feet to make it safer
PJI: "100 feet?! Safer? But your parachutes won't have time to open!"
Ghurka: "Ah, you never said anything about having parachutes"
So they all turned up apparently ready and willing to fling themselves from a C130 in to the sea from 100feet.
Mental, in a must-not-fail.....must not fail....kinda way.
Urban military myth also tells of a bunch of Ghurkas being briefed for "jumping out of a Hercules at low level, landing in the sea" with the height of the drop being 500 feet or so.
Lots of muttering amongst the Ghurkas after which their nominated spokesman steps up and asks the PJIs if they can reduce that height to 100 feet to make it safer
PJI: "100 feet?! Safer? But your parachutes won't have time to open!"
Ghurka: "Ah, you never said anything about having parachutes"
So they all turned up apparently ready and willing to fling themselves from a C130 in to the sea from 100feet.
Mental, in a must-not-fail.....must not fail....kinda way.
Edited by anonymous-user on Tuesday 28th April 16:37
DocJock said:
Suffice to say, it was a privilege to serve alongside these men.
Aye aye to that.Flew many of them in and out of various s
t holes in Afghanistan and, although they are monumentally polite and modest, when they're "working" there's a certain.....viciousness (?) in their eyes, but like everything else about them it seems so very well self-controlled.
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