Actually, I figured that was probably true. I always wondered how much they surrounded him and hand-picked his missions. Same with his brother. His brother claimed to dodge Exocets (by climbing vertically in the helo).
Harry has ALWAYS been a "wild child", even as a toddler and that info is what his own mother said of him.
People claim that it was his mother's death that mad him go off the rails, but he was long gone, before that happened.