Ah, Gurkhas

AFP has an article about one of the British "littlest soldiers":

A Gurkha (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 killed more than thirty Taliban fighters. He was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross, which is given in recognition of acts of conspicuous gallantry during active operations against the enemy.
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 last September. Pun fired more than four hundred rounds, launched seventeen grenades, and detonated a mine to repel the Taliban assault on his checkpoint near Babaji in Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan.
The enemy opened fire from all sides and, for fifteen minutes, Pun remained under continuous attack, including fire from rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47 assault rifles. 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. (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.

Rico says he's always admired Gurkhas; the notion of "killing as many of them as I could before they killed me" is why the Gurkhas commonly win...