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Originally Posted by mikeo80
I read somewhere that in the Falklands campaign, the Brits used the Gurkas as LRP's. If the Argentines heard the Gurkas were in the area, surrender soon followed.
Don't know if true or legend.....
BUT, it does fit the Gurka tradition for ferocity...
Mike
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I've read something fairly similar to that. If memory serves the story was that Argentine propaganda scored a bit of an own goal when it came to the Gurkhas.
IIRC the story originated when Soldier Magazine (the British Army's magazine) published a picture of Gurkhas on excercise sharpening their kukris prior to deploying to the Falklands. The pictures were republished by the Argentines who did such a good job of portraying the Gurkhas as being some sort of blood thirsty savages / mercenaries that their own troops were terrified of them.
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Originally Posted by TiggerCCW UK
To the best of my knowledge they were the only regiment (or certainly one of only a few regiments) never deplyed to Northern Ireland. Shame really - I reckon they'd have cleared things here up a bit quicker....
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Going OT here, I seem to recall hearing that in the early days of the Troubles Irish units / soldiers were barred from serving in Ulster? Was that actually the case?