The prince, known as Captain Wales, wields an assault rifle during an urban warfare exercise with Australia's 2 Commando Regiment
Posted on 05/09/2015 2:26:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Prince Harry ended his month long embed with the Australian military by stalking buildings with an assault rifle, abseiling from helicopters and raiding ships with a team of navy divers.
The Captain Wales performed a series of counter-terrorism exercises as a part of his commitments with the military.
Harry also trained in the country's arid north in bush survival skills, including how to source food and water.
The 30-year-old also spent time flying helicopters, training with SAS commandos and taking part in drills with Royal Australian Navy Clearance Divers.
Harry, who is due to quit the British Army in June, said: 'All it's done has made me not want to finish my military career to be honest with you.'
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The prince, known as Captain Wales, wields an assault rifle during an urban warfare exercise with Australia's 2 Commando Regiment
“Whale Rider”
Good flick
The real man in royal family is now fifth in line for the throne. After Princess Charlotte.
Too bad the British people couldn't vote the next Monarch after Queen Elizabeth II passes away.
He sounds Ok but I hate the phrase “the people’s prince” or princess.
Sounds too much like “The People’s Republic”.
Why would he want that thankless job? He's fithy rich in his own right and can come and go as he wants. I'd say he got the better end of the bargain.
Been a long time since the Brits had a real warrior Prince. He seem like quite a guy.
Yes, because his father only flew helicopters for the Royal Marine Commandos for years, and his older brother only flew search and rescue missions...
Harry is a fine young man, and deserves real credit for what he has done, but he, personally, would be annoyed at the suggestion that his father and brother weren’t real men. Both served, and served in the roles they were assigned.
...a Maori welcome?
The tribe once gave the queen a 21 bum salute ( mooned her ).
“Yah, I won’t have to be King!... princes have all the fun!” from “The Horse and his Boy” C.S. Lewis
Mesa High School Haka (Arizona)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHj8Lycll9g
Unlike his father and brother, Harry fought in infantry In Afghanistan.
But describing him as 'the real man in the Royal family' as The Free Engineer did in post #3 implying that his father and his brother are not real men is unfair in my view (now, The Free Engineer may have meant nothing of it, at all, he may not know much about what the others are like and that's understandable). Both of them served in positions of real responsibility and risk. The Prince of Wales was serving in a peacetime force (Britain was not at war at the time) and so was not exposed to a combat role, but his job flying helicopters for Royal Commando's would have likely put him into combat if there had been a war at the time (he also served in a number of other roles where combat would have been unlikely). Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, was not assigned to combat duties (and while Harry was was never likely to be - there's a general principle in the British Forces, that you do not expose both the 'Heir' and the 'Spare' to combat and Harry got there first by not going to university as William did) - but he flew Search and Rescue operations in the Royal Air Force, and is about to begin doing so again as a civilian.
I know these people - I went to school with the Prince of Wales, briefly, and served alongside his brother, the Duke of York, and I know the younger Princes through their father - and I think they often get caricatured and treated unfairly in the press. Prince Harry is a really great young man, and I'll give him full credit for his service in combat (which is much greater than my own war service), but he'd be the first to point out what his brother and father have done was also very real and valuable and that they have nothing to worry about in terms of being real men. The thing is, they can't often defend themselves, so as their friend, I feel I should defend them, when I see what I see as people pulling them down. They're just ordinary people in many ways, simply an accident of birth giving them a special role in their country - but as ordinary people, they are decent people.
While they may appear to be ordinary, they are national symbols of Great Britain, they represent Monarchy, which is an enduring institution of the country and of course, it brings in tourist dollars.
Good post. Prince Andrew also served with distinction, as did Prince Philip.
I’ve read that the Duchess of Cornwall is a solid supporter of the troops, too.
Regardless of other “issues,” it has always seemed to me that the Windsors are real patriots.
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