Conspicuous Gallantry Cross

[bruno]

Just read this story on the award by the Queen of the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross to this soldier in the Royal Gurkha Rifles-Corporal Dipprasad Pun. The Gurkha's have a well deserved reputation for being fearless soldiers- Corporal Pun demonstrates why:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hought-I-going-die--I-tried-kill-I-could.html

The soldier fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine to thwart the Taliban assault on his checkpoint near Babaji in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan, last September.
At one point, after exhausting all his ammunition, he had to use the tripod of his machine gun to beat away a militant who was climbing the walls of the compound.

 

[runslikeajohndeere]

Sounds like a frenetic thirty minutes.

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