Now this would be an AWESOME movie plot: Soldier who fought off 30 Taliban

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Thread started 06/03/11 6:01am

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Now this would be an AWESOME movie plot: Soldier who fought off 30 Taliban — alone

Maybe Hollywood can stop with the sorry ass remakes and do something original for a change. hmmm

He's cute too so he can play himself in the movie thumbs up!

Sergeant Dipprasad Pun, of the Royal Gurkha Rifles, proudly holds his Conspicuous Gallantry Medal, after it was presented to him by Britain's Queen El

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.

Ottensen	SCNDLS said: "The CGC is second only to the Victoria Cross -- the highest honour for bravery in the face of the enemy." WTF??? What he gotta do to get the Victoria Cross??? Welcome home, Chile
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morningsong	He is cute. And you never know, somebody might be working on a script as we speak, of course the number would grow to 100 Taliban, or something like that. Bet he's camera shy, so somebody would have to play him.
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Shyra	SCNDLS said: Maybe Hollywood can stop with the sorry ass remakes and do something original for a change. He's cute too so he can play himself in the movie Y'all prolly too young to remember, but all I can picuture is, "CALL FOR PHILLLIIIPPP MOOORRRIISSS! All you old ass mugs, tell me you don't remember!
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Timmy84	WOW! 30 of them mothafuckas...?! Yeah I gotta google him and see what he's all about.
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Timmy84	And I agree, he's cute.
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While I TOTALLY agree he went above and beyond and SOOOO deserves this, Im thinking it wasnt anything else other than self preservation in their eyes... Because he was alone as he stated...

^{While I TOTALLY agree he went above and beyond and SOOOO deserves this, Im thinking it wasnt anything else other than self preservation in their eyes... Because he was alone as he stated...}