Prince Harry in Afghanistan

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Hundreds of thousands of people watched President Obama's

inauguration speech in Washington, where he called on America to unite

as one nation to lead the fight Now it is time for a special

programme on Prince Harry's latest For this soldier who is third in

line to the throne, this is the weight before the mission. What

life has been like for the last five months. A PlayStation is one

of the few creature comforts in an austere military tents thousands of

miles from home. Filling in the time before the urgent call to arms.

The most amazing thing is being at one minutes playing on the

PlayStation, and the next minute you're running out to the

helicopter. Sometimes you don't even know what is going on when you

get into the helicopter. It sometimes is only when you are a

couple of thousand feet above the target area that you get the

information. Within minutes the crew has to be airborne, ready to

come to the rescue of an injured comrade or to respond to an attack

by insurgents. Why aren't we are on the other side of the fence we're

doing as much as we can to ensure that the guys had been shot at.

is here flying one of the world's most advanced ground-attack

helicopters, the Apache, no one took that Taliban as the mosquito,

or to British troops as call-sign ugly. This is the choice platform

as far as we're concerned with the guys on the ground. I don't know

where ugly came from, but it is a pretty ugly beast. I think it is

cool. Captain Wales is in the front seat of the cockpit, sharing the

flying ants taking control of the weapons. A I am in charge of the

weapon systems. Two years ago when it was all decided, it was never

expected because being a junior captain ants not to graduates, they

were a couple of bus they got pushed forward to the front seat.

It is a joy to me because I love playing Playstation and XBox, so

with my thumbs I am probably quite useful. This is no game. Out here

he is set and the controls upon the British Army's most potent weapons.

Built like a flying 10, the Apache has been a saviour for British

troops and a curse to the Taliban. Poor Harry, it has given him the

chance to return to the front line. This is how his tour began, a

surprise attack by insurgents on Camp Bastion. Just days after Harry

arrives, and of his 20th birthday. 15 guys met up with me at the base.

No-one knows if it was about me, or the Americans, but this campus in

the middle of it cannot stand and you should expect to be attacked at

any point. It was on my birthday, so it was a reality check.

dangers have never been that far away. He won't give specifics, but

captain Wales has had to use the weapons, the cannon, rockets and

Hellfire missiles, and he has had to deal being targeted from the

ground. We go straight into the overheads, and a complete the pits

off the insurgents. Sometimes we do you think it's taken on in the

overhead. It is a complex job for everybody involved, but it is not

just about the shooting, but giving the effect to the guys on the

ground. You are the man with Dick Trigger in your hand. If called

upon you will fire and presumably you will kill the enemy. This

squadron has been out here. Everyone has fired a certain amount.

Probably a bit more than this time last year, but that is just the way

it has balanced out. When you fire, you still get the cordite smell and

hold forth by Brits. When you fire a missile the whole aircraft

shudders. Take a life, to save the life. That is what we revolve

around. If there are people trying to do bad stuff to our guys, we

will take them out of the game, I suppose. It is not the reason I

decided to do this job. The reason I did this job was to get back out

here and carry on with the job. interview is interrupted by another

court action. On returning, Harry shows up the cockpit that has

become so familiar. Getting in and out of the aircraft with all this

rubbish! We have the carbine rifle, we carry the green brain, which has

all the information on it, call sign frequencies, guys on the

grounds, I can assure you the contents, but basically it is maps

and stuff like that. The tour Nikkei, we have one on the arm and

spares. I keep my pistol in their. My helmets, it is a personal thing.

It is the only place you can have all your own stuff on it. For me, I

have my blue, red, blue badge. I have got my American wings that I

was given by one of the instructors. Call-sign ugly. Once the engine

starts a new rolling, that is one which will start to become rush.

Get the sighting system up, make sure all the weapons, the inventory

is right, making sure that's all the rockets are showing. Make sure

we have enough fuel. Make sure no missiles are not latched. Apart

from that, there is very tickle to do in the front until you take off.

Once the Radio starts has won a start to get exciting. This is my

office. It is quite cramped. I am 6 ft 2, and my knees are up against

the screen the whole time. I'm not complaining! We get four or five

weeks off when I finished this, so I will miss it. My friend keeps

sending me pictures from London of the city up their computer screens,

I think, no, this is mine. To computer screens. You have fixed

action but action -- buttons of videos, columns, the mapping,

weapons page and the fire control radar. You have the Comms Panel

appears a you know exactly what is going on. This is my targeting

system, and then the trigger grips on which are designed for the

younger generation, put it that way. Every button has a different

texture on it. For some reason, the buttons aren't Blitz. Instead,

they're all different textures so it might you should be able to tell

but in you're pressing. The best thing about this cockpit is that in

her back we have... we have bags were going to the toilets. She to

master the art of peeing when you're sitting down. This isn't the

first time that Harry has been to Helmand province. He was here at

the end to 2007 as a second lieutenant with a household cavalry.

More exposed to danger, out on the ground, close to the enemy. Roger,

happy with that. Last time he was working on the other end of a radio

as a forward air controller calling in the air strikes. After just 10

weeks, news of his double mint leaked forcing him to leave

abruptly. This time, the Ministry of Defence did not try to keep its

secrets. In part because of the law risks. For Harry, flying the Apache

will always be second best. I do enjoy it. You are giving something

back. It this is the only way I can do it, so be it. My choice would

have been out on the ground of Regiment. That sounds quite spoilt

when I'm standing in front of this thing, but my friends and family

back home know what I'm talking about. Life on the sprawling

military camp is certainly very difficult to being out in a remote

patrol base right on the front line. Camp Bastion is the size of the

town and houses 30,000 military personnel and it is hard to walk

around unnoticed. It is a weird reality being stuck in Camp Bastion.

I keep that. I would much rather be out at the patrol base with the

lights. Lots of guys like the luxury and comfort of bastion. We

are stuck in Camp Bastion, and what is going on is different. At the

end of the day, we're out there to provide protection for the guys on

the ground. Want to run that side of the fence, all this stuff has

forgotten about. It is a pain in the arts being stuck in Camp

Bastion. I go to the cookhouse and everyone has a good old look. That

is one thing I dislike about being here. There are plenty of guys in

their that they have never met before, so they look at me as

Prince Harry as opposed to captain Wales. Out on patrol in the Apache

may be the next best thing. Perhaps one of the reasons why he first

took up flying. Probably the fact that you can only fit a certain

amount of people and a helicopter, so nobody can follow us, like you

guys! During my flying course especially, I would be fine at

flying, should have done a lot more reading, and every now and then I

have written test to come up and I would be useless. I have been like

that since stage one of my youth. Exams were always a nightmare, but

anything like kicking a ball around, playing a PlayStation, or flying, I

find it easier than walking, sometimes. Then there is the of his

family connection, and the sibling rivalry. It is still hard work, but

I'm better than William, so it is fine. Have you been helping him

with the exams. He needs a lot of help. Harry is following in

William's footsteps, who first learned to fly. It is only Harry he

has been allowed to serve in a war zone. He has strong views as to

whether his brother should be allowed to do the same. There is

jealousy because he would love to be out here. I don't see why he

wouldn't. He would be doing tunic missions. No-one knows who is in

the cockpit. Yes, he be get shot that, but the guys are being shot

at on the ground so we don't think there's anything wrong with us

being shot at. We are not special, the guys out there are, simple as

that. In reality, he can just forget his other life. Before he

arrived in Helmand province, he was representing the Queen at the

closing ceremony of the Olympics and there will always be his royal

duties. You have got to be able to flick the switch. They were three

knees. There is me, socially in my private time, the army and the

royal family. I flick the switch when necessary. At it like to think

it is measured and balance. The army comes first, it is my work at

the end of the day and known back home gets to see the stuff they do

at work, and there is no reason why they should. Fine, and the grandson

of the Queen and I'm representing her, but as far as I see it and

Williams sees it, we are providing services to a country in the

military. A father has always tried to remind me about who I am, but it

is very easy to completely forget about to I am Wenham in the army.

Everyone is wearing the same uniform and doing the same thing.

All the officers get called Sir. I get on well with the lads. I enjoy

my job. It really is as simple as that. Certain people were might be,

you are who you are, so don't Harry spectacular dropped but died

in Las Vegas. There was embarrassment, reinforcing a

reputation of a gaffe-prone, partying a prince. I don't want to

get into the details, but at the end of the day, I was in a private

area and there should be a certain amount of privacy that one should

expect. Back home, all my close friends were great. It was a

classic example of me being too much on it and not enough prints.

People might look at it going, it was letting off steam. The paper's

new I was going to Afghanistan, so I don't think the way our was

treated was acceptable. Even here, in Camp Bastion, it

seems hard to forget about the media back home.

The scars are clearly still roar from an early age when his mother

was alive. It does back to when I was really small.

The media should have a responsibility on how they report

about people. Somebody behind a desk rights about someone which

come persuade a holding nation about that people. Everybody says,

don't read it because it is rubbish. I am surprised how many people read

it, everybody is guilty I guess for buying the newspapers, but people

should not believe what they've read. Of course I've read what is

being said about me, but all it does his anger me that people can

get away with the writing stuff that they write about. I don't

believe there is such a thing about private life anymore. Everybody

knows about Twitter and the internet. You cannot move an inch

without somebody judging you. But is just the way life goes. It is

not all but the media, but certain people have tried to do their best,

but it is an unstoppable force. I am out here doing a job I really

enjoy. There was and agreement made it to invite you guys out here on

the deal but the media did not speculate on my deployment. There

is no PR stunt, nothing like that. In Helmand, some respite. Four

other members of the family, the attention is only intensified. The

Duke and Duchess of Cambridge expecting a baby, his thoughts are

with them. A cannot wait to be an uncle. It is very unfair that they

were forced to publicise it when they were, but that is the media

for you. I literally am very happy for them, but I hope that she and

him, but mainly that she gets the necessary protection to allow her

as a mother to be to enjoy the privacy that that comes with. I

seriously hope that will happen. I chatted to them, I did not send a

letter of congratulations like the papers said. How the papers think

they know the relationship between me and my sister in law is

incredible. They are wrong as usual. But I spoke to them, and they are

both very happy. Is he ready to settle down? You cannot ever be

urged to settle down. If you've meets the right person and it feels

right, it takes time. As for as you are concerned, there is nobody

waiting for you at home, you are 100% single? Are a map out here

doing my job. -- I am I here doing my job.

He has been working on VHR, very high readiness. You often get that

adrenalin rush, and you have to slow yourself down in case you mess

up something. You need to do the double checks. It is all about

getting from A to B as quickly as possible. If you have had a few

shouts and you have no adrenalin left in you, you are exhausted.

Towards the end of his tour, the fatigue is beginning to show.

Though he makes the effort to enter the festive spirit. Welcome to our

home. I will show you the homely bit. This is as much privacy as we

get, but that are under four of Oz. We have the store room, the usual

things. It never changes. Tracker, I never used to eat them but I do

now. Kit Cats and Mars bars, and a lot of plastic cups and plates. I

get upset with people, saying don't use more than one plastic plate.

Save the planet. Sleeping accommodation. This is my bed, I do

not make it when I am down here. When we are off duty, we sleep in

that the blog, which can be described as Portakabin is on top

of each other. Each Portakabin is split into two, and you have a few

home comforts but nothing big. I have a couple of rides, one from

home and one is an Afghan rug. That side is a private side, what is

left of it for me. Our shouts on normally late at

night or early in the morning. You come back about 5:00am, and you

have an hour and a half at a push. One minute you or in bed asleep,

six and a half minutes later you are speaking to somebody on the

ground or being shot at. In many ways this deployment at

Camp Bastion has been more successful than the last, with

Prince Harry this time being able to complete a full tour of duty as

an Apache helicopter pilot. But with all combat troops leaving

Afghanistan by the end of 2014, this could be his last.

In it has taken how the years of hard work and hard persuasion to

return to the front line, but with his deployment fast growing to a

close, he will soon have to think about his plans for the future. How

long will he stay in the army, and how well he juggle his commitments

as a senior member of the Royal Family? By war always be here for

my grandmother and whether it needs to send the abroad. I do not really

have any plans, this was my main effort to come out to Afghanistan.

It took a bit longer due to certain regions -- reasons, but I am out

here now. As to how long I will spend in the army, who knows? I

will continue to balance between where are my job and the other job.

I have to be careful with it any more patron ages, because the last

thing I and my brother and Catherine want to do is spread

ourselves friendly. By will still state patron of Walking With The

Wounded, missing out on the north Paul thing was a date in the ribs,

but it was by another experience I had with a number of military guys

who are really sound. Seeing on the news ex servicemen and women being

used to incorporate the training and standards within the army, it

is nice to see that the military is being used to bring along a youth,

as such. The family bond that happens in the military is second

to none. Those standards that we pride ourselves on, and that work,

can be used more in schools, not necessary -- not necessarily

against anti-social behaviour, but for team work. It is an opportunity

that should have been used a long time ago.

For Harry, it is those bonds that make his life more normal. Of war-

zone providing a refuge from all the attention back home. But his

time he has come to an end. I think now everybody wants to come home.

We are getting up to five months. The handover period takes about two

weeks as well, because there is less flying and it is more boring.

Ten weeks last time was like a holiday, just to the point where

you get bored it was time to come home. For me, that hurt, being

pulled out at that point, been dragged away from my guys. I think

it was done, not in the wrong way... His interview it is interrupted by

another call allowed. Prince Harry once again rushing to aid his

comrades on the ground, many as he puts it, to take a life to save a

life. -- Reddy, as he puts it, to This no disruption continues, this

time affecting north-east England and north-east Scotland. Be

prepared for more disruption through the overnight period, the

snow is also being blown around by a pretty strong south-easterly

winds. Further south, we have that lying snow, ice will be a problem,

with a cluster of showers across west Wales. Icy surfaces first

thing in the morning, and in the south-west there could be snow

across Devon and South Wales for a time. Rain across the south-west