Never Yet Melted * SAS Sergeant Kills Three Jihadis With Gurkha Knife


Someone sent this to me today. A British SAS Sergeant in Iraq has killed and wounded a number of jihadists with his khukri knife after running out of ammo.

If you're squeamish, better not read just what happened. This news item has the details.

The knife was given to the soldier by a Ghurka soldier in British service.


I don't think the knife shown is the one used. The service models are nicer than this relatively crude example.

This is the second instance that I know of where a knife saved the day after a soldier ran out of ammo. The other case involved an El Salvadoran who used a lockblade folder. He received his country's equivalent to the Medal of Honor.

You may have seen him on the Net, holding that knife.

The enemy likes to cut the throats of helpless captives, but seems not to stand well in the face of an attack with a knife.

The sergeant will apparently receive an Iraqi award. No word yet if he'll get a British one.

Note that the story says that the 27 year-old soldier has 15 years of combat experience. One suspects a misprint...

I guess don't bring a knife to a gun fight doesn't always work out for the bad guys.

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Hue 68 noli me tangere

Way to go SAS!
I appreciate our Allies so very much.
Sometimes it seems that we are out there all alone.

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NRA LIFE MEMBER

I remember this one from a few years ago. You just don't mess with these guys.

40 Train Robbers vs. 1 Gurkha - Neatorama

A clear example of the 21' rule in action.

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James L. "Jim" Rhiner

Great story. The knife in the picture is made in India. I have one like this and it's stout but not nearly as nice as the Nepal made knives.

There was another story about 10 years ago where one Gurkha took on 30 Taliban fighters and won. Running out of ammo he beat the last one with the tripod of his machine gun. And if you read their storied throughout history they have always been fierce fighters. Stories like that are not uncommon. Another one that comes to mind is a Gurkha who held off a Japanese attack by himself. Severally wounded and with the use of one arm he operated his Enfield bolt action rifle one handed for many hours killing over 30 Japanese

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For some fine reading about the Gurkha soldier, read John Masters' Bugles And A Tiger and The Road Past Mandalay.

Masters, a British officer, commanded Gurkha troops before and during World War II. He admired and loved his amazingly courageous and steadfast soldiers.

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Oh well, what the hell.

I've read those and some of his novels. He was an excellent writer, and received the Distinguished Service Order, one step beneath the Victoria Cross, for his command of a jungle outpost code named Blackpool.

Let's not forget our own hero. Private Henry Johnson of the 369th Infantry during WW1. The 369th were the Harlem Hell Fighters. While standing watch in the Argonne Forest, he was attacked by a German raiding party. After he ran out of ammunition, he attacked the Germans with a knife, killing several, wounding others, and receiving 21 wounds himself. Then he rescued another soldier of the 369th. He should have been awarded the MOH.

He did, just last year:

WWI Hero Henry Johnson Finally Receives Medal of Honor - History in the Headlines

Well earned, rest in peace, Sgt. Johnson.

Regards,

Dave

I remember reading that the Ghurkas, in the Italian Alps, would sneak into the German barracks at night and cut the throat of every other man, leaving alternating Germans alive, in order to disrupt morale.

After serving as a mechanic with Chenault and the Flying Tigers, my dad was assigned MP duty in Delhi. He had to respond to a bar fight where one Ghurka decapitated another, after severing both arms (all with one blow).

He was on guard duty and having a cigarette with a buddy when 2 Ghurkas came up. His buddy spoke Nepalese (?) and asked them what the trouble was. Seems that 3 of them (one was staying behind with his knife) had cornered a tiger and wanted my dad to shoot it with his .45. When he declined, they said some not-so-nice things about his lack of manliness

A few Kukrus I picked up Nepal. Very
deadly, but also very utilitarian. The chips on the last pictured blade came from a fight I got into with some tangos in eastern Turkey. These guys have hard heads!

What caused the chips? Didn't the edge stand up to bone?

No, made with cheap Soviet steel. But as I said, very hard heads.

My former boss's dad had scary stories about the Gurkhas. Apparently in their theatre in WWII the Gurkhas were responsible for security at night, and all the other troops were told that under no circumstances were they to leave their sleeping quarters without wearing their jackets with the proper epaulettes. His dad said you would step out to take a late night whizz and after a few steps a hand would feel your shoulder and a voice would breathe, "Very good, Sir". Other than that you never heard a sound... and neither did an enemy patrol that tried to sneak in one night, either.

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Release the Kraken

Ah, the Gurkhas, wonderful, legendary troopers. Two of my favorite stories of the Gurkhas - both from WW-II: the first one involved a seriously wounded Gurkha Sergeant, literally at Death's door and no medical aid nearby. Out of sheer desperation, his young Lieutenant ordered him not to die. So, he didn't, and lived for many years after receiving proper medical care. The second one involved the British Army's attempt to form a parachute troop from Gurkhas. The Gurkhas evidently failed to fully understand the value or function of the parachute were stunned to learn they would be jumping from the airplane at an altitude of 500 ft. They were reluctant to do so until one of their numbers asked instead to jump from 50 ft. instead, as they felt that was do-able (survivable).

I don't know if either tale is true, but if not, they ought to be.

Regards,

Dave

I hope the SA Sergeant rubbed the blade in in bacon prior to the fight.

What's this fascination with bacon? It's only bad if done intentionally. If unknowingly then it doesn't matter. May as well rub it in ketchup or butter or tall grass. Even if a devout Muslim, or Jew, eats pork by mistake all he has to do is ask for forgiveness once he realizes what he's done and he shall be forgiven.

"If one were to intentionally consume any food or drink which has been specified as haraam or unlawful by Shariah, one would indeed be involved in a grave sin in the Sight of Allah Subhanah.

But if one unintentionally and unknowingly consumes any haraam food or drink, and had absolutely no intention to transgress the prescribed limits of Shariah, there is no sin upon such a person."

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Long ago I remember seeing a movie about some Gurkha ceremony in which a Gurkha soldier was required to decapitate a water buffalo (or some other similar livestock) in one stroke using his khukuri knife. And it seemed pretty simple for them to do.

Sherpas, and Gurkas what the heck is in the water over there in Nepal? Tough people for sure.