He mentions that he saw his goals as “chess pieces”, as he had been taught in training.
THE prince harry reveals in his memoirs that he killed 25 Taliban when he was serving as a helicopter pilot in Afghanistan and that he saw his goals as “chess pieces”, as he had been taught in training, writes the Telegraph newspaper today.
The youngest son of King Charles III served 10 years in the British Army and took part in two deployments to Afghanistan, first in 2007-8 for 10 weeks and then as a helicopter pilot from September 2012 to January 2013. He resigned from the army in 2015.
In the book The Substitute, which is due to be published next week – but some newspapers already have copies – the prince says that as part of his training he learned to kill the enemy and that it was part of his job: “We shoot when needed, we take a life to save (another) life.”
According to the Telegraph, for his second mission in Afghanistan, he says that he was able to record the number of victims thanks to the cameras on the Apache helicopter.
“It seemed essential to me not to be afraid of that number. Well, the number for me is 25. It’s not a number that fills me with satisfaction, nor does it make me sad,” writes the 38-year-old prince.
Harry thought of the victims as ‘chess pieces’ being removed from the game, as he had been taught in his training because it was impossible to kill a target ‘if you thought of it as a person’.
“I had made it my goal, from day one, never to go to sleep doubting the fact that I had done the right thing, that I had shot Taliban and only Taliban, with no civilians nearby,” he assures. “I wanted to return to Britain safe but, even more, I wanted to return home with my conscience intact.”
According to the newspaper, the prince’s military service made him a potential target for terrorists, hence the concerns he expressed about his safety when he left Britain in 2020, stepping down from royal duties.
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