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Prince Harry completes successful tour of duty as Apache pilot in Afghanistan
Prince Harry, known as Captain Wales in the British military, has departed Afghanistan with his squadron after a successful tour as an Apache pilot. He operated as part of the Joint Aviation Group which provides helicopter support to the International Security Assistance Force and Afghan forces operating throughout Regional Command (South West) in Helmand province. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment ruleshe's taking after his uncle who in '82 helped to kick out the RG's from the Falklands.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 09:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's nice to see our leaders / heads of state leading by example. Well done Captain Wales!!
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 09:18 am - Link - Report abuse 0Even as a member of the royal family he still steps up to the plate to do is duty for his country.... Nice one!
a true crusader against the evil tyranny and oppression of an entity that practices a barbaric cruel outdated backward belief.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 10:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0great success!!! [borat voice]
It is notoriously difficult to become an Apache pilot, and not everyone makes the grade, that alone makes him stand out above his peers.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 10:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0He's done a good job out there in support ISAF and Afghan forces. He deserves a good spot of leave before going off to train with 16 Air Assault Bde, who are (I understand) currently the UKs high readiness force.
Will they be going to Mali to support the French, train in the UK or will they be going to the Falklands to 'train' and p!ss of CFK?
“Oh no, the UK has sent another Prince out, and this one is armed with a weapon of mass destruction - an Apache instead of an unarmed Search and Rescue helicoptor!! ARRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!!! Run for cover!!!!”
Fear the argentine navy: http://tinyurl.com/bybem5b
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 12:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They're into self flagellation now.
Any chance we will be seeing a photo of MAXIIMO KIRCHNER flying a reinforced Hand Glider anytime soon??
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It's a hanG glider and they aren't designed for fatties so I doubt we'll enjoy seeing him fall off a cliff any time soon.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 02:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 - agreed. Great guy doing great things for Queen and country and the free world who wants to judged on that, not by invasive media hype, and prying camera eyes. Fantastic interview with Capt Wales on Sky recently; speaks like it should be said. Hopefully he will make it to the Falklands one day; he would be hugely welcomed, either in uniform or without.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 02:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@6;
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 02:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Was that not the guy who deep-froze Han Solo in 'the Empire Strikes back'?
@Idlehands Sorry for typo mistake,Yahoo Argentina reports Maximo Kirchner lost weight recently so you never know what he might try to compete with our warrior prince LOL.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 02:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@7, they should use him as a depth charge.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 05 Idlehands
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 04:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“it is possible that there has been a great incompetence or laziness on the part of the guard who had custody of the naval vessel”
If all else fails.....look for a scapegoat!!!
You're one of very few on an 8,000 tonne Destroyer and it starts to list to one side. What do you do other than jump off and hope it doesn't sink?
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 04:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh..............hello Suzie..............
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 05:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@14 Don't you worry. Only practicing for argies. They run faster!
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 05:39 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Five month combat tour, with 100+ combat missions, go for it lad! show your royal ass to as many young gals who would like to see it. Take a few of the other guys with you too, they would love the R&R.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 05:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 017 reality check
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 05:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't the troops call it I&I amongst themselves, in that age old squadie humour?
I know that the forces call it “Rest and Recuperation” but I read somewhere that the soldiers had started calling it “Intoxication and Intercourse”.
Soldiers huh? You gotta love 'em!!
At least no trolls on this one .
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 07:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0yes, read the UK newspapers about the Naked Prince!
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0uuuuuuuuhahaha!
Your just jealous..
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 07:25 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Amazing how so many people are happy that he joins the armed forces, but are gob-smacked when he kills people.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 07:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What do they think that the military are employed to do?
@19 jtj (# Can you immagine the same story (naked prince) If it happened to Maximo but lets be honest hes so dam fat and ugly no chicks want to see him un dressed
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 07:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0At least he is proud to represent his country,
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 08:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0whilst Maximo just represents his belly and face plastics.
There was a piece about a Taliban spokesman incensed that Harry should refer to taking tali's “out of the game”, and later talk about playing on a playstation.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Makes me larf; medieval tw*ts who shoot schoolgirls in the head, execute women for adultery, deny women education and beat men for not having long enough beards playing the morally indignant. Pure cretinry of the highest order.
Remember you didnt win the war after 10 years of colonization. You are going to withdraw.
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 10:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Second his comments shows the no comprehension of the complex situation of this conflict at all. On the contrary for him its a game or video game between good and bad boys.
And 24 in USA the violence of talibans against women its not resolved with foreign invasions, must be education and justice of afghans, and may last years.
More violence brings more violence, reinforces and makes more terrorists, that for you means more business, becuase you make too much business with the selling of arms.
How many women are killed abused in USA every day?? Or have you killed in Afghanistan in what you call colateral damage?? The solution is no better than the problem.
@25
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Conflict affects people in different ways, he probably has had to kill people and that would take a toll on any man. Not every soldier gets a microphone shoved at them when they are dealing with their thoughts and feeling after conflict.
He doesm't have to do what he does, he could quite easily live a life of luxury and not lift a finger, but he has chosen to fight for his country. I'm quite proud of him actually and he is truly loved in the UK.
You lot (Argentina) do nothing for nobody but yourselves, they would be still stoning women to death in stadiums and beheading people in Afghanistan if you had anything to do with it. Still you are allies of Syria and Iran, so its to be expected and you are truly at the bottom of the world barrell.
@malen (#) If you take a look at yahoo Argentina there is a report of your Queen Cristina arriving home from her vaction,Argentines are reporting how many murders there have been while she as been away no Argentine on Yahoo have a good word to say about your Botox Queen Crissy Kirchner-here take a look
Jan 23rd, 2013 - 11:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://ar.noticias.yahoo.com/cristina-pa%C3%ADs-gira-asia-075300772.html?bcmt_s=m#ugccmt-container
@23
Jan 24th, 2013 - 01:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0but when is he going to learn to act like a man of his age in Las Vegas instead of playing children games?
@28 - big man (?!?)
Jan 24th, 2013 - 06:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0I believe he was acting his age in Vegas, just like thousands of other young people, he was having some fun. This added to the fact that he was about to deploy to one of the most dangerous places on earth, would see his behaviour being quite normal in the eyes of most sensible people. Plus he was in the privacy of his hotel room when this incident took place, not running stark naked down the strip, but someone took advantage to take these photos: for one reason only, to make money.
You see military personnel always have a bit of fun before deploying to somewhere from where they may never return. In fact, some would say that his behaviour in Vegas was quite tame compared to what most British squaddies would've done.
@29LEPRecon
Jan 24th, 2013 - 07:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0@28 “big-man” is Sussie again.
Aka “Small Penis”
Well said Lep. He's a soldier not a Quaker!
Jan 24th, 2013 - 09:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0The only thing the lad can be criticised for is a lapse of judgement, for forgetting that some there would jump at the chance for a quick buck.
@31 - RC
Jan 24th, 2013 - 12:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Too true.
I used to serve with a Quaker in the RAMC. Not many of them join up. Of course as soon as we found out his religion he was forever known as 'Oatsy'!
Good guy, and a damned good medic. Plus he always did shark watch and designated driver as he didn't drink. Every unit should have an Oatsy!
We had several born agains, who used to do the same, The guys had no probs with them apart from endlessly trying to get you to convert. Then one day, having returned from patrol one of the guys found that one of them had stashed his ammo. His weapon and mags were empty, he had been doing it for months. He said it was because of gods commandment. Well needless to say, he was quickly discharged, no court martial, just an Administrative discharge.
Jan 24th, 2013 - 01:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0We saw it as a betrayal of trust, no one was forcing him to be in the mob, he could have left on religious grounds at any time.
Funny thing though, before he was reborn, he was the biggest boozer, smoker and shagger on the squadron!
We had one or two aswell, - Really funny when one of them had a 'relapse' back in to his old ways one time, and ended up pished out of his mind as was arrested by the monkeys - You should have heard the obcenities he was screaming. Must have been all that years of suppresing his own charecter as a 'born again' christian i suppose.....
Jan 24th, 2013 - 03:13 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All these Argies complain about what he does and wants him to grow up,
Jan 24th, 2013 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps we have the argentine military all wrong,
They spend every hour godsend reading about their queen and reading the bible,
And live like holy men,
Apparently argie military don’t drink, smoke , swear , and are all grown up.
Shit,
There goes another flying pig..
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@35 briton
Jan 25th, 2013 - 02:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0“All these Argies complain about what he does and wants him to grow up,”
No, just Sussie. He has an obsession with Harry. :-)
Amusing, in a way, I suppose.
I never use to drink, smoke, swear or hang around with ladies. I regularly went to church and never missed a single needle point lesson. My flower arranging was the envy of my unit and I made the best iced tea and cucumber sandwiches, crusts cut off of course. The secret is in the water cress garnish you know.
Jan 25th, 2013 - 08:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0'Beaches' (with Bet Middler) was my Regiments favourite film, - We all used to sit watching it over and over again with our boxes of kleenex at the weekends.
Jan 25th, 2013 - 09:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0@37 - RC
Jan 25th, 2013 - 02:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh the good old days, when you'd get up a 4 am, have a light breakfast of museli, the set off for the the Interservice Flower Arranging competition - held every year at Twickenham. Of course on the way down we only drank iced tea, and sang hymns. We clapped politely during the competition when we scored a point, and gave a hearty 'well-done' if the otherside scored.
Afterwards we'd fall into the regimental tents for a hard earned few pints of iced-tea and a few cucumber banjo's. Then we'd get back on the coach with a few crates of iced-tea and sing more hymns. ;)
Thanks guys,
Jan 25th, 2013 - 07:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Lep
Jan 26th, 2013 - 09:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0I miss my old Warrant Officer tucking me up at night with a nice mug of Cocoa and a digestive biscuit and wishing me sweet dreams!
@41 - RC
Jan 26th, 2013 - 04:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yup they were the days all right! LOL
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