after a quick look at todays papers im curious as to what the 2 wonder boy princes did to earn the medals they have on their uniforms? are medals handed out so easily in the forces these days? do you get them for playing with the toys for a few weeks before moving on?
what do real soldiers think of this? do they think "god bless em guv, theyre just like one of us" or do they think "fucking joke toy soldiers"?

 

Whole royal family are a fookin joke and a waste of our money too.

 

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i think its a joke myself

so what do you think fuzzy?

 

never seen he papers today .
dunno if it was the papers talking him up before or not but afaik harry wanted to go to the front line to prove he was one of the boys.
fair enough he would have got alot more protection out there than most probably but still a very dangerous place imo and for him having to have the balls and go out there and do it.would you??

 

monarcy is a fuckin piece of shit if you ask me! they are there for the name FFS!

 

young boys playing with big toys. theres been lots of publicity recently showing one or the other flying wounded soldies home,appearing to be in front line action in full gear insisting they are one of the boys who was 'devestated when a pesky journalist outed him puting an end to his heroics, tackling drug barons in the navy etc etc. proper little super heroes im sure but they seem to be jumping between forces every few weeks and playing with all the toys.
anyone know what they got their medal for?

 

sorta wish i had done really but to late now really

 

if i could go out and play with all the toys yet still manage to spend lots of time at home and out partying with my girlfriend ,borrowing choppers for personal use then yes, id go

 

Being Royal mate I suspect.

 

I think they are fucked either way in the eyes of a lot of folk, ie they are damned if they do and damned if they dont.
They arent in the forces for the money, thats for sure, so they only reasons they are potentially there IMHO are:
They want to be to help and fight for the country they love
They want positive publicity in the paper

I suspect there is an element of both those reasons, but ultimately I think fair play to them for giving it a go to the largest extent they are allowed to, in some ways they have freedoms others among us can only dream of, in others they are a lifelong slave to the rules governing the family that they were born into through no choice of their own
Genuinely not sure if I would show the strength of character they do or not if I was in the same position, must be fucking tempting to just be a playboy prince and fuck your way through every fit celebrity going etc as opposed to doing charity work and joining the forces.

Overall, I dont actually think they could possibly do much more to be good ambassadors for this country, and I think that charles in particular is a very inteligent man who genuinely does care about this country, Id actually sooner be a monarchy under him than carry on putting up with the two faced snivelling little back stabbing cunts we generally are limited to voting for after they have brownnosed bribed and cheated their way to the front of one of the two political parties.

 

I can think of a LOT more things that I'd condsider a joke about this country besides the Royals.

Its possibly the one thing we actually have left that makes us who we were if you ask me.

 

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I believe they are active service medals, that you get simply for going to war, not for any specific act, its just to say they served in a particular place, but im not an expert on the subject so feel free to correct me!

 

so everyone thats been out there serving will have one? no matter what ranking?
im not specifically anti or pro royal but there does seem to be a publicity overdrive recently regarding both.

 

As far as im aware yes mate, "campaign medals" is the term I believe.

IIRC my mate was saying he got one for being in a submarine in the gulf war because that sub fired on iraq so it was classed as part of the campaign along with its crew.

 

i personally agree with chip they are in a no win situation, the reason prince william has been jumping from one armed forces to the next is because he will become the the head of the british armed forces so needs to have some experince in each field, im no fan of the royal family but they do bring in alot of tourism which in turn helps our economy

 

a quick look again at the pics shows both of them to have a gold medal with blue /white striped ribbons and harry has another silver medal with red/blue /white stripes.
prince philip has a set about a foot long with more than a dozen medals hanging from it. has he served anywhere?

 

30 days in theatre to qualify for a medal.

 

Country would be (even more ) fucked with out the Royal family, end of.

 

the medals they have are merely campaign medals saying they have served in a particular war/campaign. every single soldier who has been to iraq or afghanistan will have a medal saying so.
they wont let william do to much as he will be the next king. however both are from our generation so have a different view of the country to their parents etc so are more down to earth and want to show they are doing their bit

 

Please explain your reason m8.

 

i bet they bought em on ebay, look how cheap they are

http://buy.ebay.co.uk/medals

well, worthless/pointless more like

tenner gets you a gulf war service medal, 25quid will get you the iron cross, beats going back in time and fighting for the germans in ww2

look important and show off like a fake gaylord for the price of a few drinks

suprised half of PF dont try this

 

"merely" ???????

 

Yes, merely doing their job and going where they are sent and paid to be, if they do anything particuarly outstanding then they get a bravery medal instead, like the george cross for example that my great grandad got.

 

this is one that harry has from your link. Ł10? bargain basement hero.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Copy-Operation...QQcmdZViewItem

 

I agree with Chip, also as mentioned they are just campaign medals so its no big deal that they have them.

 

To be fair, thats a copy, not an original, but even an original of that particular one isnt going to be worth much Id imagine as its so recent and so many were issued.

 

i assume theres no time limit to earn these then ? you dont have to serve a set time to get one? a week or 2 in the princess case bags you a medal whereas most othwer there will have signed up for a few years?

 

another headline grabber in the "news of the lies" is that ol' Paul Burral is lookin abit skint and out of the limelight so he has stated he shagged Diana.........

 

i bet loadsa people shagged diana

 

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i thought that was a joke comment
the battlefield is reffered to as theatre obviously.

 

no,he only served in that unknown conflict called world war 2 in the navy!lol!

 

Was that a big squabble then, this world war 2 thing?

 

apparently there were some colourful words said and a few slapped wrists!

 

Crikey, sounds pretty dangerous.

 

ww2 was hand bags at dawn. real men fought in ww1

 

from a time when real heroes walked the planet and got medals appropriately.

 

Tell that to my great uncle who fought at arnham and lost nearly all of his colleagues who went in with him, IIRC it was 1200 of them went in and 200 of them came back out, having seen close quarters fighting on most days and been under continual fire from snipers/mortars etc during the whole period.

No such thing as a safe war, but the modern ones are a lot better for our boys than WW2 was.

WW1 was just a total fuckup of mismanagement and most of the soldiers who died never actually got to fight anyone, they were just pointlessly slaughtered in trench warfare without even even seeing an enemy troop up close much less having the chance to fight them

 

i know mate, i was making light of the situation. i lived in arnhem for a while so i know what it means to those there and i have attended a service there