More mercenary madness
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Ah,...no thanks, I'll pass.
Show me a fratboy among us who hasn't enjoyed, let alone witnessed, a butt-chug.
Ah,...no thanks, I'll pass.
"To prove you're a good, upstanding, NON HOMO Christian soldier, you need to drink Vodka from this other guys butt..."
I am willing to bet it was triple canopy, (state dept. contractor)
Nope it was ArmorGroup.
they are no better than armored truck guards, low standards and small checks
No 'mericans either...I think the guards were Kenyan or something, with little or no Engrish skilz...
Nope, Gurkha's (Nepalese).
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/2826406/US-embassy-like-Lord-Of-The-Flies
Take a soldier from a very very poor country drag them to another country give them what is to them a very high paying job, pretty easy to then intimidate them into doing what ever the supervisors want them to do IMO.
I'd bet the supervisor level guards were either all or majority American too (I can't see an American company guarding an American embassy putting non Americans into senior security positions, but that's only a guess).
Having spent a fair bit of time with Gurkha's back in the 90's I'd call that behavior totally out of character for the Gurkha culture, they are quite a straight laced (if a bit blood thirsty and violent) bunch of guys..... *shrugs* it does sound a lot like American frat boy culture though.
I feel the need to clarify that is an argument against fratboys and not alcohol...
Yes, yes it does...sounds like they have watched Animal House and Van Wilder a few too many times.
Heh, oddly enough, there are a lot of third-country nationals from Commonwealth countries in supervisory positions around the world. And this certainly doesn't sound like anything from a repressed bunch of prep-school boys with clipped accents, nosiree. Nor one that had any sort of interaction with the general south/central Asian area, nope. And certainly not anything to do with the British, who own ArmorGroup. HAS to be American influence, certainly.
"Ghurkas" today often aren't actually ethnic ghurkas, by the way--merely anyone hired to tote a gun who happens to originate anywhere in the India/Nepal region...
Must spread. (Rep that is.)
Real Gurkhas are pretty badass though. Like a modern Hindu Spartan. All the men carry (big honkin') knives and consider themselves (culturally, if not practically) warriors.
Gurkhas are pretty damn good cigars.
A kuhkri is a wicked knife...in the right hands. In the wrong ones it is guaranteed to remove ears...the users.
I thought your supposed to draw blood every time you pull out a Gurkha knife. I hope you cut someone before you put that away.Real Gurkhas are pretty badass though. Like a modern Hindu Spartan. All the men carry (big honkin') knives and consider themselves (culturally, if not practically) warriors.
or garrote them with the mouse cord.
I thought that was a samurai sword...
From wiki, so take it with a grain of salt, but...
Although a popular urban legend states that a Gurkha "never sheaths his blade without first drawing blood", the kukri is most commonly employed as a multi-use utility tool, rather like a machete. It can be used for building, clearing, chopping firewood, digging, cutting meat and vegetables, skinning and also for opening tins
No guarantee of blood. I printed the picture out and gave my coworker a nasty paper cut.
I'm glad my host family didn't follow tradition. They used them for everything from cooking to fixing their bikes. Seeing as they were vegetarian, I would've been in sorry shape had they needed to draw blood every time one was unsheathed.
Did they make you an honorary Jhurka?
Yeah, but he's on vacation, Jhurka'd off.
Yes that's a kukri, identical to the one I was given when I left Nepal by the ex Gurka regiment guys I'd been working with (guiding).
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The small indent near the base of the blade is both a Hindu fertility symbol and is to stop blood running down the blade and making the handle slippery.
One of the smaller ones in the pic is a sharpener the other is just a general purpose sort of knife and they both tuck into the to of the sheath behind the main blade.
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Nope, "kwidi," which is the Nepali equivalent of n***** for white people.
Yes that's a kukri, identical to the one I was given when I left Nepal by the ex Gurka regiment guys I'd been working with (guiding).
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The small indent near the base of the blade is both a Hindu fertility symbol and is to stop blood running down the blade and making the handle slippery.
One of the smaller ones in the pic is a sharpener the other is just a general purpose sort of knife and they both tuck into the to of the sheath behind the main blade.
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I know the PICTURE was a kukri. I mean the blade which according to legend (but obviously not actual practice) could not be sheathed without drawing blood.
Way to post on Sept 11 without a nod to the terrorist menace. Communist.
