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    Prince Harry Deployed to Afghanistan

    Link: http://news.sky.com/story/982152/pri...tan-front-line

    Prince Harry is back on the frontline in Afghanistan - four-and-a-half years after his first tour of duty was prematurely cut short when foreign media blew his cover.

    Captain Wales, as the prince is known in the Army, will be filling an entirely different role this time. Now a fully-qualified Apache helicopter pilot, he will be flying in support of coalition forces on the ground.

    In 2008, Harry was a Forward Air Controller, calling in air strikes in support of coalition forces. This time he will be on the other end of the radio conversation and carrying out the air strikes himself.

    His deployment will prompt more questions about the wisdom of sending a royal prince back to war, where he will present the ultimate prize to the enemy should anything go wrong.
    More on the article on the link. A lot of people reckon this is happening to save his reputation over what happened in Las Vegas. Its a bit harsh to say that in my opinion.
    "The Irish Move To The Sound Of Guns Like Salmon To The Sea" Rudyard Kipling

    "The More You Sweat In Peace , The Less you Bleed In War" George S. Patton

    "A man who won't die for something is a man not fit to live." Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Originally posted by Feeney92 View Post
    A lot of people reckon this is happening to save his reputation over what happened in Las Vegas. Its a bit harsh to say that in my opinion.
    only a fcuktard would believe that the BA would train a young man to operate the UK's most effective CAS platform and then only make him use those skills as a punishment for shagging.

    only RGJ will know how happy this makes me.
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    • #3
      Let's hope him and all the other lads doing a tour come back safely.

      The Apache is a two man job so where will his cp team sit?
      Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
      Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
      The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
      The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
      The best lack all conviction, while the worst
      Are full of passionate intensity.
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      • #4
        in the fleet of Tornadoes 100m behind his chopper
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        • #5
          Fair play to him...apparently this was in the planning for the last eight months.

          Which might explain LA...blowout before they deploy etc.

          He got top student on his Apache course.

          Shall we start odds now that he comes home with a gong?
          'History is a vast early warning system'. Norman Cousins
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          • #6
            So.... again the news leaks - thought the British Government were able to slap D Notices on media outlets, to keep a lid on stuff like this ?
            "Well, stone me! We've had cocaine, bribery and Arsenal scoring two goals at home. But just when you thought there were truly no surprises left in football, Vinnie Jones turns out to be an international player!" (Jimmy Greaves)!"

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Truck Driver View Post
              So.... again the news leaks - thought the British Government were able to slap D Notices on media outlets, to keep a lid on stuff like this ?
              News leak? It was a press release. He was chatting with his oppo in front of tv cameras!
              Everyone who's ever loved you was wrong.

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                Originally posted by Truck Driver View Post
                So.... again the news leaks - thought the British Government were able to slap D Notices on media outlets, to keep a lid on stuff like this ?
                decision was taken long ago that keeping it a secret was a non-starter: a) Bastion is a massive base, he'll have met literally thousands of people during the tour, and it would have got out anyway, and b) as an AH gimp he's not as vunerable to assasination as he was as a FAC - he won't be around any ANA/ANP at Bastion, and once he's in the air he's indisinguishable from any other AH crew - and Terry takes a pop at any Heli they can anyway.

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                • #9
                  Best of luck to him I hope he returns safe and sound.

                  If the LA stuff is the worst he ever does well ......
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                  • #10
                    Best of luck to him, and everybody else there with him
                    'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
                    'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
                    Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
                    He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
                    http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by hedgehog View Post
                      Let's hope him and all the other lads doing a tour come back safely.

                      The Apache is a two man job so where will his cp team sit?
                      You know those two stubby little weapons points on the sides? Well, with some webbing straps...



                      (that pic is actually from this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6qHcd4imKk)
                      Last edited by Flamingo; 7 September 2012, 23:11.
                      'He died who loved to live,' they'll say,
                      'Unselfishly so we might have today!'
                      Like hell! He fought because he had to fight;
                      He died that's all. It was his unlucky night.
                      http://www.salamanderoasis.org/poems...nnis/luck.html
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                      • #12
                        They're right in front of the engine intakes!!

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Orion View Post
                          They're right in front of the engine intakes!!
                          Not really. Its more a winglet they are sitting on, as far from the intake as any SAR crewman was from the intake of an A3

                          Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                          • #14
                            he gets paid the money, get on with it
                            Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by hptmurphy View Post
                              he gets paid the money, get on with it
                              Uncompromisingly fair :-)
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