Re: [sg] More on the Gurkhas

At 01:59  29/06/01 -0400, Ryan Gill wrote:
>All of this brings a question. Does the ESU have access to Gurkha
troops 
>since they hold India? Would the ESU take Gurkhas? Would Gurkhas serve
in 
>the ESU under "Indian" service? Would Nepal be a smoking ruin where the

>ESU tried to invade and failed or is Nepal still thorny as ever to 
>invaders and independent in 2183 (and apparently still supplying troops
to 
>the crown and the NAC)?

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.

Derek

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