Then a 23-year-old Household Cavalry officer, he was serving as Forward Air Controller, responsible for controlling military air movements from the ground and - on occasion - calling in air strikes such as the one that morning.
To the pilots and air controllers in other parts of Afghanistan he spent hours speaking to over the radio, he was just another voice - known only by his call sign “widow six seven”.
This time the Prince’s main view of the more remote parts of Helmand will be rather less direct, from the air rather than the ground as he returns as an Apache pilot.
But as the one responsible for releasing Hellfire missiles or strafing the ground with gunfire, his engagement with the Taliban will be all the more direct. Link
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