If you are a WWII soldier

There was this ghurka once.
His english friend was complaining that his watch wasnt working, so the ghurka approached him the next day with another watch, with a german hand still wearing it.

 

After speaking with the Gurkhas most of the storiesare not true, bu they do enjoy being in them.

 

Personalyy i never believed this story was true, but its written in a weldocumented book so im not sure what to make of it.

However, its still a funny story.

 

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I'll go along with GP on this, Ghurka stories abound and they love em!
Here is one from WW1.
" German soldier lunges at little Ghurka with a bayonet,
Ghurka chops back at German with his kukri,
German says, "ja,missed me"
Ghurka says " You wait till you nod your head!"
does not alter the fact that the Ghurkas are amongst the top fighting men of all time.

 

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Ghurka Tales from the Falklands.

 

LOL!!

 

One of the stories spead around the Argies was that the Gurkhas are High on drugs and eat prisoners, It kept order.

Come here, I said come here. Ok come here or I will send a gurkha to bring you. Thank you.

Or words to that extent.

 

The Gurkhas were scheduled to mount an assault on one of the mountains surrounding Stanley, but the Argentines threw in the towel before it could be mounted. I'll bet a lot of Argentine soldiers thanked God when they found that out! I know I would have, in their shoes...

 

If I were a soldier , i'd want to be a medic

 

I would like to be a tank driver.

 

Don't take this the wrong way but can anyone relate some instances of Gurkhas in combat that are verifiably true? What have they accomplished in combat to deserve the "amongst the top fighting men of all time" comment?

 

back hudreds of yrs ago they defeated a british army that outnumverd them, also (im not sure if this is true) to my knowledge they have never been beaten in a war

 

Well, if they are really good, nobody should ever get to know bout their operations. 8)

 

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They "Ghurkas" are honest, loyal and "bloody good blokes to have beside you if you are in the s***."
Proved by the number of VC's they have justifiably won.
Sgt.(Bull**** Baffles Brains) Merlin

 

Do they serve in segregated units or are they mixed in with regular British forces?

 

As far as i know they have their own regiment. They are the only foreigner regiment in UK army.
I recall some TV footage before NATO marched into Kosovo few years back. The only infantry they showed were Ghurkas sharpening ther kukris. Kind of psy warfare.

If i were a soldier in war i would want to be in infantry :smok: , as i served in infatntry as machine-gunner during my time with the army. Tank is just a big target.

 

those kukris are nice knives n to my knowledge they are not allowed to put them away unless they draw blood from something

 

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I'm afraid that is yet another Gurkha myth Dave, but the Gurkha regiments are and always were separate, over the last few years the various rifle regiments amalgamated into one regiment, "The Royal Gurkha Rifles",
(July 1994)and there was also the "Gurkha Transport Regiment" , but whether the transport regiment still exists I do not know, I know they did in 98 as I was presented with one of their badges. There were also Gurkha Signals stationed at Bramcote in Warwickshire a few years ago, maybe they are now all together in the Brigade of Gurkhas, perhaps GP as a serving soldier can tell you more.
Sgt.(sell the pig and buy me out!) Merlin

 

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Sorry Dave it is a myth, I have seen Kukris unsheathed and no blood drawn, when I asked why he didn't draw blood he said with a smile. It is a myth they like to encourage, if I drew blood every time I clean it I would have no fingers. They have several Kukris and the ceremonial one is beautiful.

As for stories there are only a few I have seen, many I have heard, one I have seen was when some Brits were drinking with some Gurkha colleagues someone bought a drink for a Gurkha who didn't drink alcohol, half a pint of orange and half vodka. He refused the drink as it would make him ill, but the Brit (not one I like, and did in fact give the Fat b*stard a shoeing) said I have bought you this if you don't drink it you will insult my honour. I saw Prem the following morning in the med. centre with alcohol poisoning. The point shows how they are very honour driven people. After serving with some of them I am happy to have them in my army.

But on the subject of honour, during exams Of which I have never seen a Gurkha fail of achieve a low score, They do ask for a rubber very often, and although I don't speak Gurkhali I am sure it doesn't take as long as they claim it does, and it also doesn't take 5 minutes of chat to say thank you.

Here is a true story.
A friend of mine Who was from the Dahl cast was in the bar one evening with moist eyes. I asked him what was wrong, expecting him to say his mother had died or something of this ilk. He told me he had failed (shiro had a degree in Engineering so I was quite puzzled). He told then told me it was his BFT (Basic Fitness Test, this is a 2400 metre or 1 and a half miles squaded run in 15 minutes followed by the same in best effort), as a young 23 year old and he was 30 my best time then was 10 minutes 30 sec. So naturally for him I was devastated. So I asked him what him he did, he replied 6:50.

To get in the British army they have to go through a vigorous physical test which includes running up and down a mountain carrying a basket of rocks strapped to their head.

I could never doubt their, honour (except in exams) their courage or fitness.