09-22-2012, 01:15 PM
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Advanced Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Cleaning my Thompson in The Foothills of the Ozark Mountains
Posts: 3,130
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Re: GURKHAS
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Originally Posted by jbmid1
I heard a story once.
A unit of Ghurkas was going to be airdropped into a risky behind the lines operation.
The comander of the op informed the Ghurka's leaer that they would be dropped from a very low altitude <500ft.
The Ghurka talked with his men, came back and said they felt they would be safer jumping from maybe 50".
The commander sxplained that 50' feet would not allow enough time for the parachutes to open.
To which the Ghurka replied, Ahh, we didn't realize we'd be using parachutes.
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Being a former jumper myself, I loved your story and included it in my Gurkhas FB page, take a look
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Vietnam 67-68
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