I agree fully with you ONTHEBEACH, Capt, Harry WINDSOR is a pretty good soldier by all accounts ? Qualified Helicopter Pilot, two tours of Afghanistan, and being a Royal doesn't make him bullet proof. It's my understanding he did all the sorties he was allotted. Again I assert, the Taliban with their surface to air RPG's could have shot his chopper out from beneath him if they recognised it was Harry flying the A/C ? So I can't see how the risk had been reduced in anyway ?

Grunt or Royal, it's of little consequence, if it's your time, you're done, simple as that ! It's got me buggered why some have this need to continually attack Harry, or William, merely because they're of Royal blood. Harry served honourably in the Afghan war, simple as that. Leave the poor bloke alone ? If any of his detractors wish to make light of his military service, well go over to Afghanistan, and show us al,l how it should be done !

Reintroduction of National Service ? Somehow, with the youth of today, I suspect No:1 MCE, would be 'chockers' within the first day or two ? Most couldn't take it !

Pathetic Paul.
I am sure if was just a show some soldier who was also there would have sold the story to the media by now.

You really are pathetic; just change your signature to Pathetic Paul.

What is pathetic, is theses so called 'royals' who have been having a bludge, and enjoying the fruits of the labours of the hard working common people, us serfs, since William The Conqueror turned up in 1066!
What I suggest for Prince Harry, Prince William, Prince Charles, Prince Phillip, Prince Andrew, Prince Edward and prince the corgi, Is, take Harry as an example, Prince Harry, gives up his $40 million of unearned wealth, and becomes Mr Harry Windsor, or his real name Harry Saxe-Coburg-Gotha,(maybe not enough space on the dole form for such a long name) they didn't actually ever change it legally to Windsor, just took it cause at the time Great Grandpa Eaddie was having a bit of barney with his rello cousin Willie, The Kaiser of Germany! Go down to Centerlink register for the dole, all $519.20 per fortnight, move out of the government provided palace, and live in a council flat in Whopping! And at the same time, look for a real job!
Am I being unreasonable? I think not! The French had the right idea and so did the Russians, it just didn't work out too well, better luck next time. I shouldn't have mentioned the French and Russians people might get the wrong idea.

"The French had the right idea and so did the Russians, it just didn't work out too well, better luck next time. I shouldn't have mentioned the French and Russians people might get the wrong idea." - Paul1405

What wrong idea might we take from a member of Green Party saying the above, Paul? That this self declared pacifist would support violent revolution to install a communist government? What on earth would make us think that?

Paul1405,

You shouldn't be so jealous.

If you tot up the cost of the dole and free government services including very expensive health delivery to many unemployed no-hopers whose chosen lifestyles and selfish, irresponsible choices are affecting their health and general well-being, they would have to have in excess of a cool million invested (and paying tax on) if they were being required to pay themselves and the exasperated, long-suffering Aussie taxpayer wasn't stumping up for those services instead.

That is why economic migrants pay criminal gangs to get them to the Western democracies. Welfare states where other people called taxpayers are doing the hard yards by going to work all of their lives to support bludgers who never intend to work for the whole of their lives (and through family reunion bring in their claimed relatives to sit back as well).

The problem with the Greens and other leftists who believe that a 'wealthy Australia' SHOULD (MUST!) keep them in the manner they would like to become accustomed to is that the gathering, inescapable consequence of large scale migration and factors like globalisation is the loss of the quality of life and government support that were previously supplied FOC by those hardworking, soft-hearted 'whites' who came from the highly civilised UK and some European countries.

Some longer paras there that could hurt the brains of the egocentric, demanding leftists. Many have warned them before in short, simple words and to no effect though. While they will claim not to read it anyhow, the party is over. They can expect a reduction in those government services and pensions. Present and future federal governments will not be able to stop the decline in living standards and probable loss of liberal democracy as well.

Gather your rosebuds and scoff at Harry Windsor while you may, Paul1405.

Paul,

Did you not know that Prince Charles' ".... views on farming. Prince Charles' Duchy Home Farm went organic back in 1986, when most shoppers cared only about the low price tag on suspiciously blemish-free vegetables and unnaturally large chickens piled high in supermarkets. The Prince's farm supplies barley, beets, carrots, milk, mustard, oats, parsnips and wheat to Duchy Originals, a firm he set up in 1992. In what he calls a "virtuous circle," the company markets organic products such as cookies and soups made from the produce grown by his own farm and from ingredients sourced from other suppliers using farming methods that protect the countryside. The company's profits go to charitable causes."

There you are a real Green for a change and note where the profits, in this instance, go.
http://content.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1663317_1663319_1669898,00.html