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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 4, 2023 21:14:07 GMT
This will be interesting. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65182440Is someone being a little economical with the truth here? I suspect that these ex-Gurkhas won't be our ex-Gurkhas, but Indian ex-Gurkhas. Not quite the same story, that. |
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Post by mids on Apr 4, 2023 21:27:49 GMT
They don't say they're British Army Gurkhas so it looks like the BBC are up to their old tricks.
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Post by ootlg on Apr 5, 2023 7:32:00 GMT
They're Nepalese and Indian but the text is very muddy.
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 5, 2023 7:57:55 GMT
So, we're under zero obligation to them. Good.
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Post by bertruss2 on Apr 6, 2023 10:35:24 GMT
The Gurkha guards are reported to be aged 37 to 60. They are retired from the British army and have been recruited by a private army (i.e. mercenaries). Private army recruits doing fighting are presumably younger than that. They're also called military contractors, just to confuse the general public. Makes them sound like defense contractors, Raytheon and Lockheed Martin.
It's a multi-billion dollar, multi-national business, recruiting ex-servicemen from many countries. At one point, in Afghanistan, there were as many, or more, mercenaries working for the Americans as regular American army, I believe.
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Post by perrykneeham on Apr 6, 2023 10:41:30 GMT
"They are retired from the British army".
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