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Special Interests - Groups & Societies => The Barracks => Topic started by: Books OToole on April 25, 2014, 09:26:12 AM
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Dave: I don't like hearing that, either! You two take care, please!
I was hoping there would be a veritable British Empire "contingent" numbering as many as four at this Muster, with you and I as the "old campaigners", plus Ned and his new Australian mounted infantry impressions, and Garry James as a British officer .....
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Internet%20stickies/british-flag-waving-buddy-icon.gif)
I have a co-worker from Nepal who has expressed an interest in learning to shoot. Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Books
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From Nepal? It would be cool to have a Gurkha...Hard-core badass mofo's...
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That's sort of what I was thinking!
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Yes, indeed!
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Gurkhas/GurkhasandGordonsatDargai_sm_zpsc12ffc58.jpg)
Gordon Highlanders and Gurkhas assaulting the Dargai Heights, Afghanistan, 1897
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Gurkhas/GurkhasandGordonsafterDargai_zpsbb096e95.jpg)
Gurkhas and Gordon Highlanders photographed together following the successful assault
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Gee, all them fellers sure look angry at that bagpipe guy . . .
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Important safety tip for musicians; STAY BEHIND THE RIFLEMEN!!!!
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I pity the man who doesn't hear the PIPES!
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We once needed a musical accompaniment, and wanted a pipe band, but no one new how to play.
As a "field expedient" we put an accordion in the dryer...
Lacking an accordion, several cats will do.
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Maybe we can convince Steff to come out and play for us. He not only plays the pipes, he BUILT the pipes he plays! I really need to see if I can convince him to come out at some point!
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Gee, all them fellers sure look angry at that bagpipe guy . . .
Not angry with the piper, of course .... but supremely pissed at the Afghanis who shot him! That painting is an overly romanticized rendering of the incident during the battle in which Piper Findlater, severely wounded in both ankles, continued to play where he fell, spurring the Gordons (and Gurkhas) on to a successful attack, after two precious assaults by other line regiments had failed. He played until he lost consciousness .... and was awarded the Victoria Cross - http://www.craigcross.co.uk/History/Findlater/Index.html (http://www.craigcross.co.uk/History/Findlater/Index.html)
This painting more accurately depicts the scene, as Findlater was shot down well back on a stretch of open ground which the attackers had to cross to reach the slope -
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Scottish/PiperFindlaterVC_zps0405bd1e.jpg)
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We need some of those knives, maybe a Gurkha attack on a position consisting of Eastern Red Cedar (Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae) with Gurkha knives only of course. ;D
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We need some of those knives, maybe a Gurkha attack on a position consisting of Eastern Red Cedar (Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae) with Gurkha knives only of course. ;D
Well, "Have Khukuris, Will Travel" ....
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Gurkhas/khukris_zps73762e66.jpg)
By the way, that is the proper Nepali word - "khukuri" (खुकुरी .... khukri, kukri)
..... "knife" doesn't quite capture the concept, somehow .... ;)
But if Jerry has some stands of cedar he wants cut back, and wants to write your suggestion into the course of fire, khukuris would sure work!
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From what I've read, you did not want to tangle with a Gurkha wielding his khukri when his blood is up! :o
RCJ
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Them knives look Sharp!
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Well, there are a few less cedars than there were a week ago. We had a prescribed burn Monday. It got all of the cut tree piles, and some of the standing trees. We'll have to wait to see how many of them actually die, but usually the ones that are mostly or all orange are dead.
(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/gbZyR-hOvcHgwCvNA1W0jps4wIKT0LqNQ48iysdiHSs=w288-h162-p-no)
(https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/swYs8XorbhomHQfyEFVOXPLafee1uu8f3Wz-D3rPOA8=w288-h162-p-no)
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We need some of those knives, maybe a Gurkha attack on a position consisting of Eastern Red Cedar (Gymnosporangium juniperi-virginianae) with Gurkha knives only of course. ;D
I attack them on a regular basis, but I prefer a more Scandinavian tool instead of Nepalese. My preferred red cedar tool is an 18" Husqvarna.....
Also works on thorny Locust trees(gleditsia triacanthos), but THOSE can fight back!
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Pony, that's one thing I DON'T miss about that part of the world!
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I have a pair of Khukuris that I ordered from Nepal/ They are nice and hefty and very, very sharp.
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Those Gurka blades well work for cedars?
I prefer a M&M Engineering cutter on my Mustang 2076 skidsteer.
It works great for 2" to 12" trunks. Smaller or bigger takes more work.
Mustang Gregg
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This thread kind of took on a life of it's own so I gave it one.
Those Gurka blades well work for cedars?
I prefer a M&M Engineering cutter on my Mustang 2076 skidsteer.
It works great for 2" to 12" trunks. Smaller or bigger takes more work.
MG is M&M Marshall? Marshall lived in Sargent when he invented his tree cutter.
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I have often thought that those pipers were the bravest fellows in the world! I mean it is one thing to go into battle holding a rifle, but when your only "weapon" is a set of pipes... :) I don't know if it true or Hollyweird, but there was a piper leading the British paratroopers in "The Longest Day". MGEN Harry Collins, CG of the 42nd Inf "Rainbow" Division had a bagpipe band. But that was for garrison duty stateside. I don't believe anyone was playing the pipes when the Rainbow went into combat just after "The Bulge" in '45.
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;D Fellers ya might want to remember when a Gurka blade is drawn it cannot be resheathed till it tastes blood. :o
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;D Fellers ya might want to remember when a Gurka blade is drawn it cannot be resheathed till it tastes blood. :o
Does it matter if it's human or cedar blood?
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Clean the Cedar sap off it and loan it to the cook, he can draw blood. :o
(http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i200/Delmonico_1885/DOMM%202013/Picture062_zps5b01dabc.jpg) (http://s72.photobucket.com/user/Delmonico_1885/media/DOMM%202013/Picture062_zps5b01dabc.jpg.html)
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Actually, I believe the "must taste blood" thing relates to Sikh swords .... no such tradition that I am aware of regarding the khukuri, which is as much a tool as it is a weapon .....
Otherwise, there would have to be a lot of bloodletting following kit inspection in a Gurkha unit -
(http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i219/GrantRCanada/Gurkhas/Gurkhakitinspection_zps8cc1aa19.jpg)
As for effectiveness of the khukuri (or, in any event, of Gurkhas however armed) this terse report of a raid by a Gurkha unit in North Africa during WWII appears in "Military Anecdotes" (Geoffery Reagan):
Enemy losses: ten killed, ours nil. Ammunition expenditure nil.
;D
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I received this in an e-mail from Kit Peak Kid
Hi Grant,
My father was with the 109th Combat Engineers, 34th Division beach landing at Tunisia, fighting at Hill 609 and Kasserine Pass. He said the Gurkhas would cut the ears off German soldiers, put the ears on strings and wear them around their necks.
Kendal (Kit Peak)
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I've heard that before.
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There was a detachment of Gurkhas attached to 5th fleet security Baharain, seconded from the Royal Navy liason. Wonderfull people, deadly as hell, and to a man, they HATE that old story!!! ::)
(And yes, they have to draw blood when they pull out that knife. I used to tell my people to please not ask to see the things, as they would nick their own thumbs before sheathing it. One curious guy did, however, offer his own thumb to be nicked.)
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Col Pitspitr:
Yes, it may well be the same family. I think the last time I spoke to them (before my deployment), I was talking to a Mr. Marshall.
MG
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That's what I thought. Lonnie lived in Sargent when he invented his tree cutter. In this area just about every tree saw is a Marshall
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Mine is not a saw type. More of a monster bolt cutter.
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Yeah, I looked them up and they aren't the same company
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IIRC there were a lot of Japanese who lost their heads to the Gurkahs' Khukuris during the Second World War.
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Grant, the post about Piper Findlater and his V.C. choked me up. Thank you.