Re: [sg] More on the Gurkhas

At 11:48  29/06/01 -0400, you wrote:
>At 4:48 PM +1000 6/29/01, Derek Fulton wrote:
>>
>>Possibly, but they wouldn't be the Gurkhas of popular ledgend. I saw a

>>report a show called 'Foreign Correspondent' on the National
Boardcaster 
>>(ABC) which was about peacekeeping in the west coast of Africa, forget

>>exactly where though. The reporter and his film crew went out on
patrol 
>>with a unit of Indian army Gurkhas through a highly dangerous area (so

>>the reporter claimed) and frankly these guys weren't a patch on the 
>>British army Gurkhas.
>
>At least at current, the British get the best of the best from those
that 
>volunteer for service. The pay in Britian is better, the time of
service 
>is around 15 years and as such they have really good troops. That
second 
>web site that I posted explains quite a bit.

Sorry missed the url, but the Gurkhas are definately a product of their 
enviroments, before and after enlisting. But this all could be a moot
point 
sometime last year Beth caught a news story saying that the British were

either stopping recruitment or cutting back, keeping a small core and 
sending the rest ( and their families) back to Nepal. Can anyone shed
light 
on this?

Derek

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