It seemed to me essential not to be afraid of that number. So my number is 25. It's not a number that fills me with satisfaction, but nor does it embarrass me," he wrote, adding that the number came from six missions during his second tour in the country.
Harry claimed that the army engrained the idea that the Taliban members he was fighting against were "chess pieces" in him.
"I made it my purpose, from day one, to never go to bed with any doubt whether I had done the right thing… whether I had shot at Taliban and only Taliban, without civilians in the vicinity. I wanted to return to Great Britain with all my limbs, but more than that I wanted to get home with my conscience intact," Harry wrote.
Hide the PTSD Harry is going to be fun when he can no longer suppress it.
"bloodthirsty inbred european monarch views killing 25 human beings as a unsatisfactory pheasant hunt" is the least surprising news I have ever heard
Yeah, I remember his "combat missions" being reported on by the press at the time and wondering if they just took some prisoners from Camp X Ray and left them handcuffed in the wildnerness for him to blow up or some shit...
They never usually trust Royals around actual war in the modern day, the sweaty nonce himself Prince Andrew was technically in the Falklands but they kept him far away from the fighting, he just flew a helicopter around looking for Argentine subs in places the Navy didn't think they'd be lmao.
Flying an Apache gunship is not very unsafe in asymmetrical warfare against an opponent that only has unguided RPGs.
Most Apaches in Afghanistan worked over the horizon with rockets.
The cannons aren't used as much like in the first Iraq war.
Imagine being the random dirt farmer who shot down a king with a rocket propelled grenade
This Film Is Dedicated To The Brave Mujahideen Fighters Of Afghanistan
Sure, some of them may have been ten years old or wearing wedding dresses, but I'm sure they weren't civilians.
CW
d**th, violence, sexuality
A afaik straight cis-woman I work with brought that up about Harry during our shared breakfast today (eat on company time) and said: "[For her] it makes Harry a better partner, as it shows he is able to protect me". WTF is that shit? She also was saying how every death (even that of a convicted sexual predator and right wing politician) is a tragedy and one ought to not joke about it not too long ago - but it seems to be fine if the murderer is high profile and you got a kink for the royals, eh?
:LIB:'s have no moral compass.
I mean, I like that my bf is a giant biological weapon and could kill a transphobe with one punch.
Seems like there's some weird evopsych "I must approach this from the frame of my savanna ancestors and get the man with the biggest club" thinking going on there.
“[For her] it makes Harry a better partner, as it shows he is able to protect me”.
I mean, I'd consider this shit crazy on its face. Anyone with blood on their hands is that much less willing to use restraint the next time the opportunity arises. Someone who has ruthlessly stripped twenty-five people of their lives for the crime of... not submitting to the authority of a foreign occupying army? Imagine feeling safe around such a person.
whether I had shot at Taliban and only Taliban, without civilians in the vicinity. I wanted to return to Great Britain with all my limbs, but more than that I wanted to get home with my conscience intact
He's the prince tho?? He wasn't drafted! He's talking like he just woke up there and had to fight his way back to :england-cool:
Because the Royal Family are a bunch of decaying Feudal ghouls, he really kind of was drafted since Royal men are expected to serve in the military and I'm not sure saying "I don't want to" to Lizzie "I'm only not a dictator because Parliament cut Charlie I's head off" Saxe-Coburg-Gotha-Mountbatten-Wetlin-Hanover would have been an option for him.
He still should have pissed right off but I know the pressure a military family can bring to join and the Royal Family does not seem like a loving or tolerant place to grow up.
Classic example of how these social structure fuck people up on both ends, all the more reason to abolish the monarchy.
But you know, there was the expectation that he join the military and go off on adventures murdering people defending their own lands. Otherwise people might think he was a pansy or something!
my personal all-time disgusting Brit racial slur is the "fozzy wozzies" for the islamic Sudanese rebels in the 1890s Mahdi revolt (I think? that Battle of Omdurman stuff you know), because of their beards and general appearance.
man I hate the fuckings Brits so much it's unreal.
I remember hearing that a lot as a child in reruns of Dads Army because they treat Lance Corporal Jones's (who thought in Sudan in the British army as a young man) racism as just being a joke and never censor the out of date racial slurs he says. So I went around repeating it like it was a normal phrase to say (:disgost:) because no one ever explained to me that it was racist.
Did he think he was invading the British commonwealth of Pakistan, or just didn't have a specific slur for afghans and grabbed the closest one?
probably one of my least favorite people ever alive i’m talking like bottom 5
Yeah but is it even a fair contest when 2 of the other 4 are also members of the nonce island monarchy?
Sir, The question was body count as in “How many people did you fuck aside from your wife?”
A smile forms across Harry’s face “the answer is the same.”
And once again he made sure that all of them were taliban.
Oi, wot did u fookin say to me, you cheeky little bugga?
Harry claimed that the army engrained the idea that the Taliban members he was fighting against were “chess pieces” in him.
I wonder if he was operating a drone when he killed them or if it was more Dick Cheney style, where they stuck the Afghanis in a little hole and flushed them out after Harry got within point blank range. I wonder how many of that 25 was friendly fire.
