400 Rounds, 17 Grenades, & 30 Enemies: Soldier Single-Handedly Beats Back Taliban Barrage
30 against one? Better bring more than 30 if that one is a Gurkha. Especially when, as the story tells us, the Gurkha motto is "Better to die than be a coward." Not only did this dude keep his cool against overwhelming odds, he was good on the fly, grabbing the tripod from his machine gun as an improvised weapon in close quarters battle. Badass!It took him 400 rounds, 17 grenades, and a machine gun tripod used as a weapon, but one British Gurkha soldier single-handedly beat back an attack by 30 Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last summer. And now he‘s getting one of his military’s highest honors:
Sergeant Dipprasad Pun, a 31-year-old from Bima in western Nepa and part of the Gurkha regiment serving the British Military, is receiving the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for bravery. It’s well deserved. According to his superiors, Pun’s fearsom fighting is responsible for saving the lives of at least three other soldiers.
Something tells me Sergeant Pun will never be accused of cowardice...
That is all.
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Something tells me Sergeant Pun will never be accused of cowardice...
Boy ain't that the truth!
I love my marines and my army grunts, but why don't we just sit back and let the Gurkhas fly? Between this one and the one on the train:
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/29/40-train-robbers-vs-1-gurkha/
they seem to have any situation pretty much under control!
I have always said don't f*ck with Gurkas.
Why didn't he get the Victoria Cross? Or are the Brits playing that Medal of Honor Political Correctness game that we are doing. Unnamed sources say that even if the action taken by an American S.S.A.M.C. ( okay, Soldier, Sailor, Airman, Marine, Coastguardsman) warrants an Instantaneous Placement of the M.O.H. around the Brave One's Neck, the Puzzle Palace has been informed that the next few will only go to Women and/or some Minority Person. Also, the Commie-in-Charge has let it be known that it would be better for the Fundamentally Transformed People's Republic of America not to have such Living Symbols of Honor, Bravery, and Integrity walking around teaching such values. After all, there is no Medal of Strength through Communal Effort given out. YET.
Um... yeah, he clangs when he walks... And I'd bet he was smiling the whole time!
The only question I have is, where was his kukri?
The taliban should have realised they were outnumbered from the start.
My reaction upon reading the second line was to chuckle and say aloud, "of course he's a Gurkha"
So if he had have run out of ammo and turned to the KNIFE, what would the body count have been?
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