?? Prince Harry to be posted to Iraq??.....I missed this if posted before

[bobbieinok]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/02/01/nharry01.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/02/01/ixnewstop.html

Harry will go to danger zone
By Thomas Harding
(Filed: 01/02/2006)

Prince Harry is to be sent to Iraq next year as a troop commander and is likely to patrol the hazardous border with Iran, defence sources have disclosed.

The third in line to the throne will join the Army's 1st Mechanised Brigade, which will be deployed to Basra in May 2007.


Prince Harry will complete his training at Sandhurst in April
The prince has told colleagues that he is determined to go on operations and be treated as normally as possible - not kept out of the line of fire.

more....

(there's a link at the end of this article to a later one that says he might be sent to Afghanistan)

[otohara]

1. This came out

week before last as I recall

[xultar]

2. Yeah that was 2 weeks ago.

[pk_du]

3. yep ( 1/2/2006) was of course last week (in Europe) :O)

- bush twins next ?

/sarc off

[CottonBear]

4. Yes. It's a tradition for British male royals to serve in the armed forces

His Uncle, Prince Andrew, was a career Navy man who saw combat duty in the Falklands War (He was a pilot.) Both the Queen and her husband served in served in WWII. Prince Phillip was in the Navy and the Queen was a jeep mechanic in a service corp for women.

edit: The British may well withdraw their troops before Harry is sent over. In that case, he would be posted elsewhere. Maybe in Afghanistan.