Prince Harry Heads Home after Training in US!!
Prince Harry has flown home after a nearly two month military training mission in California, which also saw the fun-loving royal let his hair down in San Diego and Las Vegas.
The 27-year-old returned to Britain on Sunday from the Naval Air Facility in El Centro in southern California, where he arrived in early October to learn to fly Apache helicopter gunships in terrain similar to Afghanistan.
"He completed his training and he was sent back to the UK," a base spokesman told AFP.
When he left the UK in October, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) noted that Harry, the third in line to the throne, would return to Britain a fully fledged Apache pilot.
"He will then be assigned to one of the Apache squadrons within 16 Air Assault Brigade where he will gain wider experience flying Apaches and taking part in exercises in the United Kingdom," a MOD statement said.
Prince Harry began his Apache training course in July 2010 with the Army Air Corps in Middle Wallop. He then moved to Wattisham Airfield in Suffolk in April 2011 before heading to California for the final stage in his course.
The prince -- or Captain Wales in his military role -- has made it clear he is determined to serve again in Afghanistan, where his deployment as a soldier in 2007-2008 had to be hastily cut short after a media blackout was breached.
British officials have declined to speculate on whether he might be allowed to return to Afghanistan. A number of the Apache attack helicopter, designed to hunt and destroy armored vehicles, are deployed in Afghanistan.
Harry wasted no time getting into the spirit of things on the first weekend of his stay in California, AFP reported.
Within hours of his arrival he was spotted in a pub and watching rugby in a downtown hotel in San Diego, about two hours away from the base in El Centro where he was stationed.
He also spent a long weekend in Las Vegas earlier this month, arriving on a rented Harley Davidson and spending three nights partying, including with a mystery blonde woman, according to local reports.....!
Prince Harry has landed back on UK soil *Does a little dance* which means we have His Royal Hotness all to ourselves. After spending just under two months across the pond the red-head has returned home because the ladies are so much better here. Ok, we lied about that bit… he's back in the country as he's completed his helicopter gunship training in California and Arizona...
