Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:27 AM 1999-01-21 -0800, John Hudson wrote: >The Gurkhas served with the British forces in the recovery of the Falkland >Islands from the Argentinians in the early 1980s. They had an unusually low >consumption of ammunition. There was an unusually high number of enemy dead >with slit throats. The khukuri is an extraordinarily effective silent >attack weapon. > 1st Battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles. There are currently shards of four regiments (five battalions, I believe, being cut down to three) in the British service, and 14 battalions (seven regiments) in the Indian. Marc msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!