Gurkhas kick off with a bang in explosive start to life as an engineer

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Thirty-two Gurkhas have embarked on a 12-week combat engineer course, which all sappers must complete, to become fully qualified members of the Queen's Gurkha Engineers.

Braving freezing temperatures in Hampshire, they had their first taste of working with live explosives and nerves were running high.

"If you find me shivering it’s not because of the nervousness – it's because of the cold!" said trainee Sapper Sagar Hamal.

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