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To: naturalman1975

Thank you for the information. If my memory is correct HRH has served in all three branches of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces in his role as future Commander in Chief. Which is more than one can say of TOTUS unless you count the apologist branch of the Weather Underground.


15 posted on 06/06/2009 9:07:38 PM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
The Prince of Wales served in the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. He did training detachments in the Army (most notably earning his parachute wings) but didn't really serve in it in a formal sense. The majority of his active career was in the Royal Navy.

He is a substantive retired Lieutenant of the Royal Navy, but now holds honourary rank as a General in the Army, Admiral in the Navy, and Air Chief Marshal in the Air Force - and if he'd wanted to show off in Normandy, he'd be fully entitled to wear any of those uniforms. He chose only to wear those decorations to which he is entitled by qualifying service. He was present at the Coronation, and the Jubilees, and at New Zealand's Waitangi celebrations, He does have twelve years qualifying service with the Canadian Forces.

22 posted on 06/06/2009 9:19:12 PM PDT by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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