Posted on 01/08/2023 3:28:37 PM PST by RandFan
Prince Harry’s claim in his new book that he killed 25 Taliban fighters during his military service in Afghanistan is drawing extensive pushback from veterans, who say publishing a head count is violating an unspoken code and could jeopardize security for the British forces as well as himself.
Retired British Army Col. Tim Collins, who led troops in battle during the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, was harshly critical of the claim.
“This is not how we behave in the army. It’s not how we think,” Col. Collins said in an interview with the Forces News British military news organizations. “He has badly let the side down. We don’t do notches on the rifle butt. We never did.”
The startling revelation is made in “Spare,” Harry’s eagerly anticipated tell-all memoir of his life as the son of King Charles III and younger brother of Prince William, the heir to the British throne. The book, which is set to be released in the U.S. on Tuesday, is the latest salvo in his ongoing battle with his family following his marriage to Meghan Markle.
J.C. Bowman, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran, said the British government went to “great lengths” to protect Harry while he was deployed in Afghanistan.
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I think the Ginger needs to be committed.
Maybe the mattress back gave him syphilis…
He was just parroting one of FJB’s tales.
If he “identifies as a person who killed 25 Taliban” who is anyone else to argue. Anyone not “woke enough” to honor his self-identification needs some major re-education and sensitivity training.
C’mon Man!
Things I’d want to engineer as a narcissist to optimize my divorce settlement ahead of my planned devaluation of my supply.
1) minimize support from his family by getting him to trash them in writing and in his own words in front of the worlds cameras (Check)
2) prove he is abusive by getting him to admit it in writing and on air (Check)
3) prove he put his family in personal danger by bragging about killing his enemies in writing and on air Check)
She’s good. Has a lot of help from Obama.
Harry can’t recover from this ever. I’d rather be in Andy’s shoes.
I’m willing to bet that, given how he was raised, he was either ignorant of the unspoken rule or he didn’t think it applied to him because he wasn’t, “career military”.
That icky wife of his has really turned him into Human scum.
Well Hillary did land in helicopter under fire! Fer Sure.
Poor Harry. He’s only 38 and he’s probably out of scandalous things to say. How will he be able to get another book deal?
Maybe he could talk about the time he was served wine at the palace, and it wasn’t chilled at just the right temperature. But I don’t know how many people would be interested in that.
was it even possible, let alone true???
And Harry just happens to have all 25 shell casings mounted and framed, soon to be auctioned at Southbys!
Emasculated Harry, desperate to recapture his manhood thought he would go for some war stories.
No true warrior ever celibates a kill. It is inhuman. There are people left. A video game moron goes whoot in a game. Killing a human is terrible. An offense to God. Sometimes necessary but to be avoided at almost all cost. What a faggy braggy cuck of a royal. A disgrace. I would bet every penny this cuck is lying to boot.
Yeah, but this guy killed 16 Czechoslovakians. And he was an interior decorator.
>>>He was just parroting one of FJB’s tales.<<<
I expect him to start talking about his beloved son Beau any day . . .
“Well Hillary did land in helicopter under fire! Fer Sure.”
...and Hillary was in it!
Maybe he could talk about the time he was served wine at the palace, and it wasn’t chilled at just the right temperature. But I don’t know how many people would be interested in that.
Is that really true?
Thirty victories, that is impressive. Who is this, Dick Bong?
“mattress back’
I thought “porcupine” covered her traits rather well.
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