This news leaked yesterday so the Brits decided to go ahead and admit it and put out some video of Prince Harry in Afghanistan.
What's incredible is how in the sam hell this was kept secret as long as it has!! I mean, aren't there paparazzi that follow this young man around 24/7???
Anyway, I'll let you read the full story from Breitbart here, but I do want to say that I've been impressed with the young Prince. All along he has been in the military to fight - he hasn't asked for special privileges and has always wanted to put his training to use. I don't see this as a publicity stunt but that of a young man who bonded with his fellow troops and was sick about not being able to go with them into battle.
You can say all you want about the British Royal Family, but this is one son who turned out well and the world should be proud of his valor.
What's incredible is how in the sam hell this was kept secret as long as it has!! I mean, aren't there paparazzi that follow this young man around 24/7???
Anyway, I'll let you read the full story from Breitbart here, but I do want to say that I've been impressed with the young Prince. All along he has been in the military to fight - he hasn't asked for special privileges and has always wanted to put his training to use. I don't see this as a publicity stunt but that of a young man who bonded with his fellow troops and was sick about not being able to go with them into battle.
You can say all you want about the British Royal Family, but this is one son who turned out well and the world should be proud of his valor.
Britain's Prince Harry in Afghanistan
LONDON (AP) - The secret is out: Prince Harry has been serving on the front line with his British army unit in one of Afghanistan's most lawless and barren provinces.
Harry is the first royal to serve in a combat zone since his uncle Prince Andrew flew helicopters during Britain's war with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982.
British officials had hoped to keep the 23-year-old's deployment secret until he had safely returned, but they released video of Harry serving in Helmand Province after a leak appeared on the U.S. Web site the Drudge Report.
The planned deployment had been disclosed to reporters, with no specific date, but was not reported previously under a pool agreement between the Ministry of Defense and all major news organizations operating in Britain, including The Associated Press. The news blackout was intended to reduce the risk to the prince and his regiment.
"I got here on Christmas Eve. And going from bullet magnet to anti- bullet magnet, most of the guys were pretty bummed that I was here because nothing was happening for the first few days that I was here. But things are picking up again now because it's obviously quite boring when nothing is happening," Harry said in one video.
Although he is still in Afghanistan, military chiefs are angry over the leak and are considering if he should be moved. Tours to Afghanistan usually last six months, but Harry has served just 10 weeks.
"I will take advice from the operational commanders about whether his deployment can continue," said the army's commander, Gen. Richard Dannatt.
Harry, the third in line to the British throne, was supposed to go to Iraq with the Blues and Royals regiment last May but the assignment was scrapped at the last minute because of security fears. Iraqi insurgents made threats on Internet chat rooms, saying he would not make it home alive.
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