Step aside, Rambo....One soldier vs. 30 Taliban fighters....Taliban fighters defeated

Danny Tse
Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
edited June 2011 in The Clubhouse
From Yahoo News....
LONDON (AFP) - A Nepalese soldier in the British army has been given a top bravery award by Queen Elizabeth II for his heroics in Afghanistan, where he single-handedly saw off more than 30 Taliban fighters.

Corporal Dipprasad Pun, 31, said he thought he was going to die and so had nothing to lose in taking on the attackers who overran his checkpoint.

He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC), which is given in recognition of acts of conspicuous gallantry during active operations against the enemy.

Pun fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine to repel the Taliban assault on his checkpoint near Babaji in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, last September.

Surrounded, the enemy opened fired from all sides and for 15 minutes Pun remained under continuous attack, including from rocket-propelled grenades and AK47 guns.

At one point, unable to shoot, he used his machine gun tripod to knock down a militant who was climbing the walls of the compound.

Two insurgents were still attacking by the time he ran out of ammunition, but he set off a Claymore mine to repel them.

Pun was given his medal in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London on Wednesday.

The CGC is second only to the Victoria Cross -- the highest honour for bravery in the face of the enemy.

"There wasn't any choice but to fight. The Taliban were all around the checkpoint. I was alone," he said.

"I had so many of them around me that I thought I was definitely going to die so I thought I'd kill as many of them as I could before they killed me.

"After that I thought nobody can kill us now -- when we met the enemy I wasn't scared."

Britain's Major General Nicholas Carter, who was commander of allied forces in southern Afghanistan during Pun's deployment, praised his efforts.

"The CGC does not get handed out lightly. It was a most remarkable achievement," he said.
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  • exalted512
    exalted512 Posts: 10,735
    edited June 2011
    awesomest story i've seen in a long time!!!!
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited June 2011
    What a great story. That is one Brave dude.
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  • punk-roc
    punk-roc Posts: 1,150
    edited June 2011
    What does the dude have to do to get the Victoria Cross? 50 enemy combatants single-handed? only with his bare-hands?
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  • ryanjoachim
    ryanjoachim Posts: 2,046
    edited June 2011
    I'm assuming he didn't get the Cross for a couple reasons:

    1. He had no choice but to fight, or die
    2. He was alone

    He certainly deserved a medal for what he went through, but it wasn't as though he had a choice but to fight with all he had.
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  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 7,658
    edited June 2011
    I remember watching a Michael Palin BBC documentary that showed several hundred young Nepalese men competing to join the British Army's Gurkhas Brigade. They camp for days near a village where they get tested and pared down to only a handful of recruits. They end among the toughest, most determined fighters in the world. There are some famous exploits during WW II against the Japanese. I bet the Taliban wondered what hit them.
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  • Joe08867
    Joe08867 Posts: 3,919
    edited June 2011
    Sounds like the front porch treatment in Fight Club..

    Oh wait, I am not supposed to talk about that...
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  • megasat16
    megasat16 Posts: 3,521
    edited June 2011
    It shows what a man can and will do at the end of the world.
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  • obieone
    obieone Posts: 5,077
    edited June 2011
    Sounds like he took the Chesty Puller approach: "We're surrounded? That simplifies thing!":eek:
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  • inspiredsports
    inspiredsports Posts: 5,501
    edited June 2011
    Guys got balls. BIG balls!
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  • amulford
    amulford Posts: 5,020
    edited June 2011
    I had so many of them around me that I thought I was definitely going to die so I thought I'd kill as many of them as I could before they killed me.

    Damn right... ^SALUTE^
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  • engtaz
    engtaz Posts: 7,663
    edited June 2011
    Great story and Great Bravery.
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  • mrbigbluelight
    mrbigbluelight Posts: 9,714
    edited June 2011
    "There wasn't any choice but to fight."
    When there are no choices, life is easy (which does NOT take away from the young man's bravery).


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  • scottyboy76
    scottyboy76 Posts: 2,905
    edited June 2011
    Any free person who fights evil of any kind, anywhere,evil such as the muslim cavemen who are pampered and handled with kid gloves here in our country even while shouting on our streets for the death of us all,CAVEMEN.

    God bless you fellow freedom fighter, and if there is a higher award, they should be shamed into giving it to this hero.
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  • ohskigod
    ohskigod Posts: 6,502
    edited June 2011
    I figure he took 2 or three out by accident by singing his huge pendulous balls like a frikken bolo!!!

    how did he not get the highest award by the way? did they expect him to do all that while juggling bowling pins simultaneously?
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