Old training video - yes, there are kukris in it

Good teeth too! I only got about 6 left on top, only missing a 2 or 3 on the bottom, I'd have a lot fewer if I was attacking with my kukri in the mouth.

Once again, me bonnets off to the Gurkha's.
 
Bawanna said:
Good teeth too! I only got about 6 left on top, only missing a 2 or 3 on the bottom, I'd have a lot fewer if I was attacking with my kukri in the mouth.

Once again, me bonnets off to the Gurkha's.
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I have a frog trained to do that ya know.
 
I think some of the footage has been flipped, based on surprising numbers of people being left handed in some shots.

JW, you're right those are good fits. Makes me wonder how secure they were. One of the only drawbacks of my chainpuri is the scabbard is a very tight fit. My WWII and Sirupati draw very easily, but not the Chainpuri. Kind of a shame, since the Chainpuri is my favorite of the three.
 
i saw a few drawing with their left & then switching hands. think that they may have tucked their khuks in that way.
 
A khuk is a pretty big item to mix in with infantry gear. Even before I got the word we couldn't openly have anything over 6" (and yet I had a parang tucked into my ruck frame) I knew that nothing like that was going to fit on my kit. Just too much other stuff-so left, right-i think it was "wherever it fits on the web gear that it won't break me in half when I fall on it-I'll figure out how to actually draw it later..."
 
What's more scary than a gurkha with khukuri in mouth and tommy gun in hand? A battalion of them
 
When on Parade the khuk is still worn centered directly in the middle of the back. These days, infantry battle gear seems to be pretty much "put it where it will fits best for you." But in WWII and prior British units wore their P-37 in much more standardized ways. Just like a lefty is issued a standard version rifle they didn't change around their kit for left or right handed folks. Item A went here, B there. As far as drawing it Well as they still feel that left handed folks should shoot right shoulder and refuse to issue lefty conversion kits for the SA80A2 I doubt they really worried about if the service member could speed draw their khuk if the person happened to be a lefty. But I might be wrong. These are just my interpretation of what I think I have seen :D
 
Lol Kamidog. From what I understand Pattern 37 is actually not the formal name for the web-gear pouches most Brit Army wore during WWII but it is the common slang used by the collectors of such and reenactors. now P-38s... those I have in bulk packing. When I was in the Army we were still eating C rats. In fact, when I first ran into an MRE like substance it was when hubby emptied his Alice pack and a bunch of LRP rats fell out. These original LRP rats by the way were packed in canvas/foil not the plastic/foil used in MREs. He liked them because they were dehydrated and they could eat while stalking, instead of only in blinds. Stick a chunk of the dehydrated meat/starch mix between the cheek and gums and as it was basically like meat chaw :D

by the way, You could always tell when someone was new to eating C-Rats. In the field we used C-4 from claymores to heat them but in the rear we used these big portable oil stoves with water basins around them to reheat the C-Rats. You take the can and pop a small hole in the top and place it in the boiling water till hot. Unfortunately most newbies didn't know to poke a hole. Anyone else remember the sounds of a new recruit placing his C-rats into the water for heating? BOOOOOM!!!
 
Shavru said:
Unfortunately most newbies didn't know to poke a hole. Anyone else remember the sounds of a new recruit placing his C-rats into the water for heating? BOOOOOM!!!
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I can just imagine a new recruit heating dinner on a piece of C-4 after you just explained to him C-4 burns well but wont explode:D
 
LoL! Ndog, Especially if you "forget" to mention popping a hole in the top. Some of those booms were quite messy... Beenie Weenie shrapnel. :D But yeah some of the recruits would think it was the C-4 instead of the can exploding. Had one older NCO that when we were playing with a couple of fng's, swore we were being mortared and refused to come out of the hole. He was a Vietnam vet trying to ride out to retirement and I think the booms set off a flashback scenario. Always felt bad about that one.
 
Shavru said:
LoL! Ndog, Especially if you "forget" to mention popping a hole in the top. Some of those booms were quite messy... Beenie Weenie shrapnel. :D But yeah some of the recruits would think it was the C-4 instead of the can exploding. Had one older NCO that when we were playing with a couple of fng's, swore we were being mortared and refused to come out of the hole. He was a Vietnam vet trying to ride out to retirement and I think the booms set off a flashback scenario. Always felt bad about that one.
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Of course you can do something similar with MREs today. A little bit of water in the heat pack, seal it nice and tight and wait a little while. Sidenote, I think some of the gases produced by the heat pack in the MRE are in fact flammable, though the boom of an MRE isn't accompanied by an explosion.
 
It's why we weren't allowed to eat th inside buildings, buildup from 250 people's MRE's can get a bit dangerous.
 
C4, was the heat of choice. Dynamite was good, too, but left a tell tale ash.
 
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