I found a funny Gurkha story.

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bobwill

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<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">In World war II, an English reporter who had heard so much about the bravery and elan of the Gurkhas visited a camp just in front of the enemy lines (Germans). During the course of his reporting, he had occasion to observe a mission being conducted.

The mission was to airdrop a bunch of soldiers behind enemy lines to conduct some relatively light action. He watched the commander of the Gurkhas (a British soldier) pitch the mission and then ask for volunteers. To his surprise, only about half the Gurkhas volunteered and were sent off.

Throughly disillusioned with the legends of Gurkha bravery, the reporter went back home. After the war, he happened to run into a Gurkha who had been there, and asked him why half the troops had failed to volunteer. It turned out that none of the squad, both those who volunteered and those who did not, were aware that they would get a parachute for the drop. Hence the low turnout.
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courtesy of http://www.cs.uwec.edu/~tan/www-docs/gurkha.html

Needless to say, I laughed when I got to the end.
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Bob

[This message has been edited by bobwill (edited 02-25-2001).]
 
The version I heard was from the CBI Theater and the Gurkhas climbed on board the aircraft but were not their usual upbeat, smiling group but were sullen and even appeared nervous and worried.

When the Gurkha NCO was questioned about this he replied to his young British Officer that they were concerened the plane wouldn't be flying low enough for them to succesfully be able to jump to the ground.

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JP
 
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