Posted on 09/16/2018 5:03:08 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Colonel William Connor has revealed the secrets of life on the frontline with the Prince in 2007 and 2008, when the royal served in Helmand Province as a British cavalry officer during sustained fierce fighting with anti-government forces.
The South Carolina National Guardsman, an Army Ranger veteran, snapped pictures with the Prince - but also ran for cover along with him when they came under missile fire at the austere operating base they called home, and shared Christmas dinner in a mess hall just a few hundred yards from enemy lines.
The American officer told DailyMailTV that the Prince met his definition of a hero.
He volunteered for duty in Garmsir, which at the time was the most dangerous place a British soldier could be.
'He could have stayed in Kabul, or some big operating base in Bastion [the main British base, now run by U.S. Marines],' said Col. Connor.
'Garmsir took the cake for the most violent action against the Taliban and that's where he went.
Col. Connor had seen the cost of operations in Helmand Province first-hand - so he knew what the Prince was volunteering for.
'The British during that time were losing a substantial number of people. I remember a very long stream of ceremonies for British dead,' he said.
'There was a decent chance you would not come back. He must have mentally gone through, yes I could die, and he went ahead and took this risk for his nation.'
'He seemed to be respected, not in a way that was forced because he was a prince but because he was a good officer,' he said.
'He was respected. That's something that's earned, not given. He had earned that respect among his men.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Better? That’s not saying much.
“Writing headlines for The Daily Mail, Yoda is.”
Probably written by the same guy saying Palin is on the run in Ohio.
Yeppers. Markel was still and again on the cover of the tabloids in the grocery line yesterday.
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