Prince Harry Military Service (merged thread)

[vonGarvin]

History also proves that her platoon mates were hand selected, indeed were already fully trained NCOs,  so HRH would not have to associate with the wrong kind of girls. And she got to go home to Windsor Castle every night. I doubt her peers were afforded the same quarters. What a sacrifice!

True story from a WWII vet.  He was driving with a mate through England in 45.  Saw a "lorry" on the side of the road with someone under it.  They pull over to help.  When asked, the person working on it from underneath popped out and said "No, thank you, I have it" (or words tothat effect).  It was HRH Princess Elizabeth.

Anyway, as for HRH Prince Harry, I'm certain that he wants to do "his part", just like any other subaltern worth their weight.  Just like his uncle Andrew, who served as Exocet bait in the Falklands.

 

[InfantryGrrl]

Not to mention nutters, womanizers, wife killers, tax avoiders,  the list goes on. A quaint but totally outdated institution that has no place in a modern independant country such as Canada. Argueably the longest chain of welfare cases in history. But we keep on sucking up to these foreigners.

My Canadian cultural identity is greatly tied to our history as a British colony.  I will always unapologetically love the British Royals and fully support their continuing ties to Canada.  Despite my strong British identity I do realise we live in a multicultural society and understand that this view of Canada is not relevant to many Canadians.      

I will agree that the Royals are nutters though lol.  No more or less nuts then every other family though.  Their lives are public so their problems are too.  If your family was watched as intensely Dad's affairs, Mum's death, your Brother's relationship breakup and your military career would be front page news too.  Nothing that happens in their lives is out of the ordinary for any other family.    

 

[niner domestic]

Just a small point of Prince Andrew's risk factor being minimised with him being in the air...how do you think he got to the Falklands? Flew? Swam? Paddled? Arrived via worm hole? He and his Sqn, were on board a ship for the three weeks it took to sail down there.  Those very same ships that every other squaddie, bootie, matelot and para were on and held to the same risk of attack.

 

[cameron]

i've been following the news and the threads on HRH Prince Harry for awhile, finally had enough and had to reply.  One of the saddest and most unfair things in this life is to be prevented from fulfilling a life long dream because of the stupidity of other people.  Unlike some other heirs and heiresses (like Paris what's her name) Prince Harry is actually trying to do something meaningful with his life.  When he parties too hard and gets drunk the media makes it headlines, like there aren't enough issues in this world more deserving of the front page.  Yet here he is trying to serve his country, something many middle and upper class Britons of his age have no interest in doing, and is being hampered in doing so by the media.

The unnecesary publicity they placed on his possible deployment to Iraq is what made him a target and caused it to be nixed in the first place.  The media have messed up his career enough, why don't they just F#$% OFF and leave the young man alone so he can be what he just wants to be, a soldier.

 

[Yrys]

Ogres eyeing royal rugby

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2007/06/03/4230273-sun.html

MEDICINE HAT -- Prince Harry is a royal and a soldier but for members of the Medicine Hat Ogres --
who have extended an invitation for the prince to join them on the field -- he's a rugby player first.

The Alberta champions know it's unlikely the prince, who counts rugby as one of his primary passions,
will ever take them up on the offer, but they extended it anyway, said team member Trent Teft.

"If he wants to come out, that would be brilliant," he said.

 

[Blackadder1916]

Prince Harry chats up Calgary bartender
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=83e4d057-0890-4f94-ae7e-721302e42131&k=18817

Jamie Komarnicki CanWest News Service; Calgary Herald  Saturday, June 09, 2007

CALGARY -- A Calgary bar is basking in reflected royal limelight, after a bartender caught the eye of Prince Harry.

The young prince, training at CFB Suffield, visited Calgary's Cowboys bar during Wednesday lady's night, but spent much of the evening chatting up local bartender Cherie Cymbalisty, 22, said Cowboys manager Doug Donald.

"If it goes somewhere, fantastic," he said. "She'd look fantastic on the dollar bill."

Prince Harry headed straight for the shooter bar where Cymbalisty was working, and he took "quite a shine to her," Donald said.

After spending a few hours drinking and chatting, Harry returned to Cowboys after the crowds had left the bar to say goodbye to Cymbalisty.

"I can certainly see why he'd be attracted to her. They're both young ... young kids having some fun."

Cymbalisty is refusing interviews, after reportedly getting an exclusive interview deal with a British media outlet.

The two are still in contact, Donald said.

"She's not going to talk to any media at the moment. We're going to respect her privacy and allow her to pursue it as she wishes."

Donald said he believed Harry also visited a number of other clubs in Calgary this week.

The second lieutenant in the British military - and third in line to the throne - came to Cowboys around midnight, accompanied by a military buddy, two RCMP officers and two British security guards.

As word of his presence spread, he strolled through the bar, shaking hands and chatting.

"He was good with that, but the crowd was good with him. They didn't annoy him, they didn't constantly hound him," Donald said.

"He said to Cherie, 'I don't get to do this, I don't get to go to places without microphones and cameras constantly being pushed in my face.'"

He came back after the crowd had left around 2 a.m.

"He quietly knocked on the door. He wanted to know if he could come in say goodbye and have a little chat with her. He came in, we brought the crew back in and they had a little quiet time upstairs," Donald said.

"They had a little chat, a few laughs."

Cymbalisty's biography for the Canada's Hottest Bartender contest lists her favourite drink as Crown and Coke with a twist of lime and her favourite body party as her "tummy."

She lists modeling as an aspiration. "I plan to be a Playboy Bunny or Playmate in 3 or 4 years! (cross fingers) Haha ..." she writes on the contest's website.

 

[the 48th regulator]

Good on ya prince!!!

Cherie Nicole Cymbalisty

dileas

tess

 

[Big Foot]

Wow, the prince certainly does have good taste in women.

 

[PMedMoe]

Yes, I can just see the third in line to the British throne marrying a bartender whose biggest ambition is to be a Playboy Bunny.  :
Following in the tradition of Uncle Andrew and the porn star? 

 

[GeorgeD]

Send him to Iraq, dont tell anyone, and have him pop up once in a while in Sydney, London, Toronto, etc... Once his tour is done, say Prince Harry here did his duty. Basically no one can blame the British Army for this because if they said the prince is going to Iraq and no one made such a big deal well it wouldn't have been a big deal.

 

[Blackadder1916]

visited Calgary's Cowboys bar during Wednesday lady's night,

It must be a gruelling training schedule for the Brits down in Suffield.  But of course they get some time to relax and do more than battle runs.

http://www.army.mod.uk/aroundtheworld/can/index.htm

The six-week exercises allow a full infantry battalion, with support weapons and its attached Royal Artillery Battery to conduct realistic live firing training at all levels. From section tactics to battalion assaults, the training area allows armoured Battle Groups to conduct a wide variety of training, much of which is live firing.

Before the troops leave, they often take advantage of the excellent adventurous training facilities in the Rocky Mountains.

Yeah, that's the story, he was on adventurous training.

 

[Timmy!]

Hey I remember that place... Calgary's Cowboys bar .. indeed I do... girls still run around with the pistols? Please don't tell my niner.... ;D

 

[Trooper Hale]

I wish i still over there, i'm a big monarchist and can you imagine throwing a boxer to Prince Harry? It'd be bloody awesome.
isn't he still with that Zimbabwean girl Chelsie something? Or has that fallen over?
I reckon GeorgeD has a decent point, how easy would it be to feed the press the occasional old photo and tell them some story. Make the picture involve a big night out and they'd be happy as. Kind of like how they used Patton during and before Normandy except totally different...ok, i'm trying to think of some situation where its been done before and thats the best i've got.
I really do hope he goes over and can do this, not just for himself but for all of us and the people back home to maybe be a little inspired to do their duty as well.

BlackAdder, you should know that Wednesday night is a great night to go to the bar when your a soldier, in the same way that Monday, Tuesday, thursday, Friday and Saturday are as well. Sunday's a day off though, we're not Heathens!
Good Luck Sir, if those are the Barmaids Royalty pull then i'm no longer Eamon Hale, you can call me His Highness Prince Edward!

 

[George Wallace]

Prince Harry chats up Calgary bartender
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=83e4d057-0890-4f94-ae7e-721302e42131&k=18817

Prince Harry chats up Calgary bartender

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=d67642b5-6ca2-42a4-a31f-0ae7cc7d3905&k=66498

Department of Redundant Redundancies reports coming in now.........

 

[Blackadder1916]

BlackAdder, you should know that Wednesday night is a great night to go to the bar when your a soldier, in the same way that Monday, Tuesday, thursday, Friday and Saturday are as well. Sunday's a day off though, we're not Heathens!

Well aware of the drinking habits of soldiers.  The point however is that Suffield is approx 250km away from the bar referred to in the article.  While the bright lights of Calgary do beckon the soldiers at Suffield, they are more apt to visit the fleshpots of Medicine Hat (45km) when they feel a need for wine, women and song, especially if they have to be back on base in the morning.

 

[Trooper Hale]

250km? So a taxi is fairly out of the question isnt it? I didnt know it was that far out, i thought Calgary was to Suffield like Pembroke is to Petawawa (my sincerest apologies to all those people who call Calgary home and have also experianced Pembroke).
My Albertan Geography is a tiny bit blunt which isnt surprising as its never been sharpened.

 

[Timmy!]

BlackAdder, you should know that Wednesday night is a great night to go to the bar when your a soldier, in the same way that Monday, Tuesday, thursday, Friday and Saturday are as well. Sunday's a day off though, we're not Heathens!

You must come out to the east coast b'y. Let's take a visit to old St. John's.

Heathens...??? lord gee thundering! Gives ya head a shake.  ;D