Posted on 02/08/2012 6:03:19 PM PST by Labour-Watch
Prince Harry has qualified as an Apache helicopter pilot after 18 months of rigorous training in the UK and the US, the Ministry of Defence has said.
The third in line to the throne was awarded a prize for best co-pilot gunner at a dinner on Wednesday at his RAF training base in Ipswich, Suffolk.
He and 20 others who graduated now have limited "combat-ready status".
Previously, the prince has hinted of his wish to return to Afghanistan after his first tour of duty was cut short.
Last April, he suggested it would be pointless to train as a helicopter pilot if he never served.
"I'd just be taking up a spare place for somebody else if they didn't have me going out on the job," he said.
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Harry is an honorary Texan. Amen
/johnny
Never mind, Harry. Syria looks like the next hot spot after the debacle coming in Iraq and Afghanistan....so don’t unpack your bag.
It’s in the genes plus he and his brother both were with Diana during their formative years. She obviously guided them correctly.
Webb Hubbell?
(Sorry, wrong royal family.)
The formative years have the most impact - and that was Dianna, the best thing that happened to The Royals in hundreds of years...and now Wills has married 'outside' - good new blood.
/johnny
A Nanny with balls. Diana was all over the place and a bit of a wreck.
Watch Harry—He fulfills all of the elements of Nostradamus predictions in his letter to the Great Second Henry (actually not Second—Secundus=latinized French for favorable) and other prophecies in the Centuries.
Did he ever train at Fr. Rucker?
A Nanny with balls. Diana was all over the place and a bit of a wreck.
"I give them what they need at this stage, fresh air, a rifle and a horse. She gives them a tennis racket and a bucket of popcorn at the movies" - Tiggy Legge-Bourke, Royal Nanny.
There is a place I could sure think of that would be good for him to strafe.
thank you...
Love the young Royal Dude...
But who really deserves applause is his press agent who makes him seem like a superhero.
If I suddenly became a Monarchist I’d want Harry to be King.
"Oh Lord, give me the eyes of an eagle, the radar of a bat, and the balls of an Army helicopter pilot."
How about King of Texas?!;)
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