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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finished listening to this today. A few thoughts that linger:

1. I cannot believe so much money / so many military resources were spent on him AFTER he had to be pulled from Afghanistan for opsec reasons.

That they gave him months of one-on-one instruction from one of the world's top instructord to teach him how to fly Apaches (equipment which, as he notes, cost hundreds of millions of dollars) just seems like a stupid move when he'd already been forced to abort one deployment for security reasons.

And then, shortly after this massive investment in him, he decides to leave the military! Why? Very unclear, but the way he put it, it sounds like he hit a wall or got bored or something. He says he "knows it was time to move on" or something like that.

What a HUGE waste of resources. Basically, because he's a prince he got to spent months and waste insane amounts of money to acquire a skill he ultimately decided not to use, which someone else could have been learning in his place, had he been honest with himself and others. (Because, again -- the instruction was ONE ON ON, and the instructors available are few and far between.)

That section alone hugely soured my view of him.

In general, my main takeaway was: this guy is evidently incapable of self-reflection. Otherwise, he never would have chosen to share so many ancedotes that cast him as spoiled, self-indulgent, and above all, self-pitying. He always finds a way to shift the blame to someone else. Quite a skill![/quote]

I didn’t have the same impression at all. He spent ten years out more in the military. And he got the same training other Apache pilots get, didn’t he? I assumed everyone got one on one?  That would make sense. It’s not like you can fly a plane in a group.

But I also disagree with you on the self reflection part. If I, for example shared a story of my past that put me in a bad light it doesn’t mean that I don’t understand that it puts me in a bad light. Some of good experiences are just that. He’s not justifying that it sounds crazy that he believed his mother was alive for years. It’s a sad tale to read what he’s been through and how he’s reacted. The book lays out his experiences. I’ve find him to be quite thoughtful about his background and the privileges and intense disadvantages that brings. And also honest.[/quote]

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