Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/21

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Gurkhas & khukuris - off topic.
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:16:42 -0500

At 09:27 AM 1999-01-21 -0800, John Hudson wrote:
>The Gurkhas served with the British forces in the recovery of the Falkland
>Islands from the Argentinians in the early 1980s. They had an unusually low
>consumption of ammunition. There was an unusually high number of enemy dead
>with slit throats. The khukuri is an extraordinarily effective silent
>attack weapon.
>

1st Battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles.  There are currently shards of four
regiments (five battalions, I believe, being cut down to three) in the
British service, and 14 battalions (seven regiments) in the Indian.

Marc

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