A 35 year-old Gurkha soldier named Bishnu Shrestha was riding a train when he suddenly found himself in the middle of a massive robbery. 40 men armed with knives, swords and guns stormed the train and began robbing the passengers.
Bishnu kept his peace while the gang snatched cell phones, jewelry and cash from other riders. But then, the thugs grabbed the 18 year-old girl sitting next to him and forcefully stripped her naked. Before the bandits could rape the poor girl in front of her helpless parents, Bishnu decided he had enough.
“The girl cried for help, saying ´You are a soldier, please save a sister´,” Shrestha recalled. “I prevented her from being raped, thinking of her as my own sister.”
Here’s the part of the story that makes you cheer. He pulls out a kukri (i.e. a knife) and proceeds to kill 3 of them, injure 8 of them, and causes the rest to flee. During the battle, he suffered a severe knife injury to his left hand, from which he’s now recovered.
(via Lone Nepali Soldier Defends Potential Rape Victim Against 40 Men)
Gurkhas are fucking NAILS. I’ve had the pleasure of working alongside some of these guys, and they put pretty much every other squaddie/spec. forces to shame, they’re fearless, smart, honourable and relentless.
Summed up rather accurately by this old joke:
“Commanding officer in the Gurkha regiment is called in to see the top brass. TB say “Now look here, we need to insert your squad behind enemy lines. In order to do so, you’ll be deployed from aircraft flying at 200 feet to avoid radar. Can you do it?”.
Gurkha CO shakes his head. “The planes must fly at 100 feet.”
Top brass look baffled. “If they fly at 100 feet your parachutes won’t have time to open.”
Gurkha officer perks up. “Oh, we get parachutes?”
BAMF of the day.
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