Re: [GZG] Gurkhas get to stay in the UK + bonus Pirates!

I first learned of the Gurkhas at a young age when the SPI game for 
Cassino came out. The game had special night fighting rules that Gurkhas

excelled at. I remember overusing those units when playing against my 
father because I thought the night attack was just too cool.

Shocking to hear that for so long they've been labeled as not having 
"strong ties". But then native U.S. allies in Vietnam such as the 
Montainyards didn't fare too well at the end of that conflict either.

Along with the pirate news I also caught a piece on French troops 
capturing 6 pirates after a dramatic chase involving Puma and Gazelle 
helicopters. Snipers from the Puma took out the engines of the vehicles 
and then troops landed in the Gazelles to seize the 6 stunned pirates.

-Mark Kinsey

Tom B wrote:
> Just an interesting news piece I happened across:
>
> http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Gurkhas-win-battle-to-stay.4544386.jp
>
> I roomed with an older lady when I was in my final year of high school

> (parents had moved) and her husband (deceased) had been a British 
> officer who had led Gurkhas (and the assigned bodygaurd of King Farouk

> of Egypt too). She always said he thought they were fantastic troops 
> but that they had to be handled with discretion because officers who 
> made them annoyed tended to not last (in the very literal sense) very 
> long.
>
> I also remember one of my best buddies from university saying his Navy

> team shot against a team of Gurkhas at CF SAC (Canadian Forces Small 
> Arms Competition). They timed the other teams as a matter of course. 
> One of the Gurkhas did a 100m rundown for a shoot, in webgear in 
> combat boots with rifle, in just under 12 seconds. During the ensuing 
> 2 km squad run at the end with full gear, most teams staggered through

> around the 16-18 minute mark pretty tired. The Gurkha team crossed in 
> 14 minutes... laughing. At the part afterwards, one of them was doing 
> standing backflips. Now, these were probably the best of a fairly 
> select lot, but definitely not your average troopers...
>
> Oh, and as a bonus for scenario fodder:
>
>
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=aLdKkAspo_EA&refer=a
frica 
>
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601116&sid=aLdKkAspo_EA&refer=
africa>
> http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/699351d8-8ec5-11dd-946c-0000779fd18c.html
>
> Kind of reminds me of stories of the Barbary Pirates before they got 
> their hash settled for them by annoying the wrong people. There has to

> be some FT and SG/FMAS scenarios in this kind of stuff.
>
> TomB
> -- 
> "Now, I go to spread happiness to the rest of the station. It is a 
> terrible responsibility but I have learned to live with it."
>    Londo, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part I
>
> "To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like 
> administering medicine to the dead."	--  Thomas Paine
>
>    Thomas Paine
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