A few years back, a Gurkha was kidnapped down in Qandahar. Later, they found the guy. The Taliban had beheaded him and threw his body in the desert.
3 or 4 Gurkhas slipped off the base. Creeped into town, found the guys responsible. They killed all of them and desecrated the bodies. Not entirely sure of the memory on this one but I think they hung some of the bodies from lamp posts or some such.
There was talk that the US Army was going to prosecute but the Brits told the US Army to fuck off and shipped them home.
Good for the Brits and excellent job by the Gurkhas. We needed (STILL DO) more of that in the ‘Stan.
Apocryphal? Probably. But among the documented accounts is that of the U.S. Air Force’s Colonel John Alison on meeting uncharacteristically anxious Gurkha troops preparing for a glider assault on Japanese positions.‘We aren’t afraid to go
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