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.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Flying an Apache gunship is not very unsafe in asymmetrical warfare against an opponent that only has unguided RPGs.

    • cawsby [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Most Apaches in Afghanistan worked over the horizon with rockets.

      The cannons aren't used as much like in the first Iraq war.