Prince Harry will complete his training at Sandhurst in April
Posted on 01/31/2006 6:09:15 PM PST by saquin
Prince Harry is to be sent to Iraq next year as a troop commander and is likely to patrol the hazardous border with Iran, defence sources have disclosed.
The third in line to the throne will join the Army's 1st Mechanised Brigade, which will be deployed to Basra in May 2007.
The prince has told colleagues that he is determined to go on operations and be treated as normally as possible - not kept out of the line of fire.
Defence chiefs, in consultation with the Prince of Wales's office, will have to devise a plan that will not put his life or those of his troops in any greater danger. Substantial planning will go into the deployment and the media is likely to be asked for co-operation on security aspects of the mission.
As a troop commander in the Blues and Royals, the prince will have the rank of cornet, equivalent to a second lieutenant, in charge of 11 men and four light tanks.
The reconnaissance formation will patrol the long border with Iran where weapons, insurgents, drugs and money are smuggled.
The prince's men will use night vision equipment to find terrorists trying to bring in sophisticated bomb making devices.
The desert patrols last up to 10 days with supplies being dropped from aircraft. The work is said to appeal to the soldiers as a mixture of Lawrence of Arabia and Prince 'is a cracking officer' the early SAS long-range desert patrols of the Second World War.
Although the mission will be hazardous, the prince is keen that his royal position will not disqualify him.
"There's no way I'm going to put myself through Sandhurst and then sit on my arse back home while my boys are out fighting for their country," he has said.
Instructors at Sandhurst have been impressed by Prince Harry's approach. "He is going to be a real asset to the Army," a senior officer said. "It would be a real shame if the Palace or MoD did not allow him to go on operations because he is a cracking officer."
Prince Harry will complete his training at Sandhurst in April
I do not, repeat, do not, question some people's patriotism. What is your problem, man? Let's get over this.
Just as soon as Chelsea Clinton, Karenna Gore, Kristin Gore, and Al Gore, III join up, I would imagine.
Why do you think that J25 and ROTR are the same person?
There is no way I would advocate or suggest that the President should force his daughters into the military. I simply said I admired LBJ for sending his sons-in-law to Viet Nam. For crying out loud, can't a conservative admire courageous acts of a liberal?
I responded to a post #3 by Jeltz25, I was then responded to as if by this poster by ROTR in post #21. You can look at the posts yourself, then tell me what you think.
BTW, you still haven't told me how you know my name, JK, I know it's from Stripes. That is one of my favorite movies too.
Your subject regions are in the hole. Understand what I mean?
Harry is one brave dude. Hajji will be after his unit. He will kick their arse.
Often times we respond to posts and posters without being the actual postee. Just like now, I'm responding but I just came on this thread to read.
Learn to chill and how to read posts. I believe the latter poster was commenting that the previous poster had a good question.
It's obvious to me and would be to most regulars that they are not the same person. You need to get out more. :-)
Actually, Crusader, I agree with you about women in war. I'm surprised you misunderstood my comments.
I didn't know your first name. I just used that quote because I thought you were overreacting and thought you should lighten up, so I attempted to use a humorous quote to make my point. It appears I failed.
The Prince is coming to Chicago??
Wait 'til I tell the wife!
It sounds like this kid may be real.
Well then my appologies to ROTR. It appeared that the poster was responding as if I were posting directly. Thanks Swamp and snippy for pointing that out to me.
I expect we all have been through it before. It's a good lesson to pause a little bit before posting sometimes, not easy...but a good thing when you can do it. :-)
yup. Thanks for the editorial.
Ok, so what of Jeltz25 in #3. That's a pretty ignorant comment IMO.
Looks like he or she doesn't want to respond. Not every post is worth a discussion or debate depending on how tired I am and after all, we are all entitled to our opinions.
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