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Originally Posted by onlyme

The military didnt put him there. He didnt have to enlist, he didnt have to go.

He is highlighting the problems our troops are facing over there, unfortunately the press arent that interested about the normal guys over there.

I know someone who was over there at the time, he was treated as any one of the lads were, and did the same.

He was meant to stay in HQ (yes obviously the safest place) but secretly went to Forward Operational posts, just like the other lads.

Credit where credits due, is what i think

Yes the military did put him there. And my bet is that he did have to enlist. As third in line to an obsolete and archaic institution his chances of fulfilling that obligation were minimal so he was the right royal to enlist to show the public that this outdated and dysfunctional family was pulling its weight.

If you recall when he was stopped from going abroad with his unit last year he was on the verge of resigning his commission. But – “Early summer - Household Cavalry Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Edward Smyth-Osbourne, who is forming a battlegroup for the winter deployment to Afghanistan, secures a place for Harry on a TACP (Tactical Air Control Party) training course.”
Source - http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30100-1307396,00.html

A nice safe posting well out of harm’s way at what General Dannatt called Forward Operating Base Dwyer. This base was allegedly 500 metres from the Taliban lines. Strange how the Taliban suddenly have clearly defined lines when in the past one of the excuses for not eradicating them was that they had no clearly defined positions. Guerrillas do not have clearly defined positions. That’s the nature of guerrilla warfare. Hit and run.

This whole affair has been nothing more than a Google Page Ranking exercise and the royal forelock tugging, sycophants are lapping it up.

As I stated before, I don’t blame Harry, he was only doing what was required of him by the establishment.

My sources reveal that most of the troops out there didn’t want Harry, on any other royal, out there, but being part of the armed forces they are not allowed to say so publicly. Privately many would have preferred that he stayed at home staggering out of nightclubs.