Gurkhas are people of nepali origin the MAGURALI ethnicity who have been traditionally serving british and indian army. interestingly nepal army is not considered Gurkha. another interesting fact Gurkha is a name of a place ie Gorkha (britons skewed the spelling for their convinience) whose king was a chettri but chettris are not considered as Gurkhas by the british. since bahuns and chettris are not elligible for joining the British (mainly because bahuns are very politically aware; had they been allowed in the british army you might have seen bahuns in british parliament and not just army, why do you think it took so many years for gurkhas to get their rights because no bahuns to help them) the MAGURALIs first try for british then indian army if they fail then they join RNA. no wonder RNA is so crappy. all the good ones are gone foreign only the frustrated SOBs are left who show no mercy in killing people. personally i don't think Gurkhas are anymore brave than americans, indians, iraqis or britons or whatever. when you enter war zone you have to do or die.