Combat Machete Story: Soldier Uses Knife Fighting/Hand To Hand Blade Skills To Fight Taliban Terrorists

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For mepersonally, my survival weapons strategy includes my machete.

These were the words going through Corporal Gurung’s head as he lay there on the ground of his observation post – struck in the head by an AK-47 bullet and disoriented from the grenade that just exploded mere feet from his place.
“It felt like I had been hit by something like a big hammer on my helmet. There was so much pain in my head and throat,” Corporal Gurung said.
… and an armed Taliban fighter had just climbed over his article ’s wall to “finish the job” of sending Gurung into his Maker.

He understood that the lives of his friends depended upon his ability to spot potential enemy patrols, and in the pre-dawn hours, he spotted two figures through his night-vision goggles, quickly heading toward the primary gate.
Caught off-guard by the sudden ambush, Gurung was struck in his helmet with a bullet from among the Taliban fighter’s AK-47 and dropped to the floor.

The lifestyles of 120 of Cpl. Gurung’s commrades were relying on him to hold the line…