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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Harry could not pass the exam to move to major.  He had intense help and every advantage but failed several times.  I think this is a shame, because he probably would have had a much better life had he been able to remain in the military.  William was also a helicopter pilot in the RAF for about 8 years doing search and rescue missions.  He could have easily risen in rank like his Grandfather, but he left to do royal work.   [/quote]

Was that in the book? I don’t remember reading that he failed that exam.[/quote]

I don’t remember reading that, either so I think it’s false. I do remember reading that he got out of the military because “the firm” didn’t want him to stay in so that he wouldn’t outrank William.[/quote]

Of course that isn't in the book.  I don't know if it's true or not but that poster or someone else has said that before, earlier than the release of the book.  [/quote]

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