Prince Harry Is Back

Once the news spread of Prince Harry’s whereabouts in the war zone, he and approximately 170 other soldiers were already making their way back to the Royal Air Force Base Brize Norton, in Oxfordshire, 50 miles northwest of London. Because Harry is third in line to the British throne, some feared once his location was revealed he had become a prime target for Taliban fighters.

Both his brother Prince William and his father Prince Charles were there for his arrival, and Charles told reporters, “It’s a great relief to see him home in one piece.”

The outspoken Harry spoke candidly of his regret at coming home early, and he said he would relish the chance to prove himself again in battle. “It’s something I would love to do,” he said in a pooled interview. “I don’t want to sit around Windsor, because I generally don’t like England that much and it’s nice to be away from all the press and the papers and all the general s—- that they write.”

Harry had been deployed with a squadron of light tanks in the desert close to the former Taliban stronghold of Musa Qaleh, and he was working as a Spartan reconnaissance vehicle commander, in charge of a vehicle team supporting a joint US and Afghan operation to seize control of the village of Kariz de Baba.

“I’ve been incredibly proud of Harry and I promise you … equally proud of all the dedicated service given by all our armed forces,” said Charles.

He added, “I also feel very strongly that we don’t often appreciate what the people in the armed forces are doing, putting up with the most impossible conditions, very often in hazardous circumstances in boiling heat or freezing cold, being shot at or rocketed at and goodness knows what else.”