Available episode is “Theodore Roosevelt vs Lawrence of Arabia.” Are they just punting these days? And what was with all the lipstick ads? Are they saying something about Spike viewers I only suspected?
Now, let’s assume both the SEAL and the Gurkha, when we put them into Thunderdome, are hopped up on relatively equal (adjusted for body weight) megadoses of cocaine, crystal meth, PCP and LSD.
I don’t expect that to affect their relative prowess. I just think the possibilities are worth considering.
Unless the SEAL is a jealous man, and the Ghurka has messed with his wife.
I could take them both down with my giant pen.
Well, the pen might be mightier than the sword, but there’s nothing that says it’s mightier than the kukri. You might be in trouble…
Or he’d just take the pen and batter you with it. Like this guy did with his gun tripod after his gun failed while holding off lots of taliban on his own.
Don’t fuck with these guys. They don’t stop until you kill them.
Its interesting how much press the Gurkha get in the West. In South Asia on the other hand their martial prowess is not really thought of that highly. Indian Army has several Gurkha regiments but the famous regiments are the Sikhs, Jats, Rajputs etc. Not the Gurkhas.
who else had faced such odds single-handedly and lived to tell it?
Have you even heard of Audie Murphy? And he wasn’t even Special Forces.
Yeah. The Sikh Regiment was at one point the most decorated regiment in the British Empire. The 36th Sikh Regiment received a standing ovation in the House of Commons after news from the Battle of Saragarhi was relayed: 10,000 Afghan tribesmen were held off by 21 Sikhs fighting to the death.
no i haven’t heard of him, but i’m sure he got much attention from the media during his time.
You know who the Girl Guides are named after.
Yes, Audie was amazing, no question. But remaining in a forward position to direct fire, and then jumping on a tank to use it’s cannons against it’s brothers is not actually analogous to hand-to-hand combat.
Maybe apples and oranges, but I’d say singlehandedly facing down six tanks with the enemy closing to 10 yards, for a battle that ranged for an hour and ended with 250 enemy KIAs (around 50 killed by the soldier himself), is really in a different league than another solider who faces a 15 minute firefight with somewhere around 30 Taliban fighters, one of whom he beat down with a machine gun tripod.
Sgt. Pun’s story is amazing, but Murphy’s is like, unbelievable.
So a soldier fighting like a soldier with soldier’s weapons is somehow less admirable than mucking around with cutlery?
Knives are for chumps.
Audie was an astondingly brave and lucky man. Luck plays an element in all these stories though so I’m not diminishing Audie in any way. He was an amazing example to all around him.
Well, knife fights are harder. So they up the wow-factor.
Guys, please re-read th OP. We are disussing hand-to-hand combat between two very specific types of training/background. I have fully stipulated to the wonder of nature that was Audie Murphy. I’m fairly well certain that I know more about him than you do. But this is not a discussion about who is the most amazing soldier of all time.
And Alessan, how you got from “not analogous” to “less admirable” is beyond me, truly. especially as it followed “Yes, Audie was amazing, no question.” :rolleyes:
If you re-read my post, you’ll see I was responding to a specific comment that seemed to imply that nobody has ever survived an encounter more dangerous than Sgt Pun’s. No need to get worked up about it.
And I was responding to posts #34 and 35, both of which quoted mine.