Two guard dogs that protected Prince William Destroyed

[cronus]

Two guard dogs that protected Prince William on RAF duty are destroyed

Two guard dogs that protected Prince William as he worked for the RAF have been destroyed within days of his final shift.
Brus, a Belgian shepherd, and Blade, a German shepherd, were put down after the prince left his role as a search and rescue pilot in North Wales.
The dogs were destroyed on Friday after air force bosses decided they could not be redeployed or placed with a family.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2fDNgj57z

[JimC]

They started to think they were corgis...

[Cormac]

Two guard dogs that protected Prince William on RAF duty are destroyed

Two guard dogs that protected Prince William as he worked for the RAF have been destroyed within days of his final shift.
Brus, a Belgian shepherd, and Blade, a German shepherd, were put down after the prince left his role as a search and rescue pilot in North Wales.
The dogs were destroyed on Friday after air force bosses decided they could not be redeployed or placed with a family.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z2fDNgj57z

Disgraceful.

[Clinton Huxley]

They should have put down Prince Andrew years ago.

[JimC]

They should have put down Prince Andrew years ago.

Or did you mean Princess Anne?

They shoot horses, don't they?

[Clinton Huxley]

They should have put down Prince Andrew years ago.

Or did you mean Princess Anne?

They shoot horses, don't they?

I ain't fussy....

[cronus]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/ ... e-RAF.html

Why the Duke of Cambridge will not pay back his 'outstanding training costs' at the RAF

Courtiers have reacted angrily to suggestions that the Duke of Cambridge's decision to give up full-time military duties would cost the taxpayer hundreds of thousands of pounds.
The £800,000 of training that each helicopter pilot undertakes means that recruits are expected to serve for six years in the role. Prince William has given up after three years, leading to claims that the taxpayer will be left with a £400,000 bill.
A military source confirms to Mandrake that the Duke, 31, has left the RAF with “outstanding training costs”.
He says: "The mechanics of financial repayment are not possible. Prince William will, effectively, repay any outstanding training costs by return of service to the nation in other areas."

(continued, all is explained....)

[Clinton Huxley]

Right, so students can pay off their crippling debt by, say, opening an Aldi?

[Cormac]

In fairness to William, he and his family live in a gilded cage. The aristocracy around them live lives of extraordinary privilege. But William and his family have little or no freedom, and practically zero choice about what they do in life.

I don't envy him at all.

Well, maybe the free helicopter training...

[Clinton Huxley]

rescue helicopters are being privatised anyway

[Audley Strange]

In fairness to William, he and his family live in a gilded cage. The aristocracy around them live lives of extraordinary privilege. But William and his family have little or no freedom, and practically zero choice about what they do in life.

I don't envy him at all.

Well, maybe the free helicopter training...

Bingo, they're equivalent to Pandas. And don't be fooled, many of the Aristos these days are living of the remnants of their dwindling estates, paupertoffs. The opposite of the "temporarliy embarrassed millionaires" of serfdom. They are often only surviving because their places are purchased by Russian Gangsters and Event organisers.

We'd be better off putting them all in a zoo.

[mistermack]

The whole process of him being a helicopter pilot was purely PR anyway. The public paid 800,000 for the privilege of making him more appealing to themselves.
He was never selected on merit. He would never have been deployed on any mission that required top performance.
He was basically a waste of space, a passenger, only there to make the royal family look good.

So ironically, him leaving is probably saving money, in that they now can have a full complement of proper pilots.
And it saves on dog food.
Anyway, they were probably only untrained guard dogs. Trained dogs cost money, they wouldn't be scrapping them.

[JimC]

The whole process of him being a helicopter pilot was purely PR anyway. The public paid 800,000 for the privilege of making him more appealing to themselves.
He was never selected on merit. He would never have been deployed on any mission that required top performance.
He was basically a waste of space, a passenger, only there to make the royal family look good.

So ironically, him leaving is probably saving money, in that they now can have a full complement of proper pilots.
And it saves on dog food.
Anyway, they were probably only untrained guard dogs. Trained dogs cost money, they wouldn't be scrapping them.

A little over the top. He may not have been super pilot, but he would have at least needed to demonstrate competency...

[mistermack]

A little over the top. He may not have been super pilot, but he would have at least needed to demonstrate competency...

I don't think so. It was their job to keep him there, unless he was too dangerous to let loose. It's great PR to have him flying helicopters and '' saving lives ''.
But anything challenging wouldn't have come his way. It's obvious. What sort of PR would it be, if he crashed a copter, or killed someone that he was supposed to be rescuing? There's no way that they could possibly risk anything like that.
So even if he was proficient, he wouldn't be as useful as any other pilot, because he wouldn't be ALLOWED to do what a normal pilot would.

And when it comes to selection, they probably take the best one percent.
There's only a one percent chance that he would have been in that bracket. He wasn't selected on merit, but on connections.

So you have a lower ability pilot, who cannot be allowed to do anything that requires skill.
Total waste of time and money, except as a PR stunt.

[Horwood Beer-Master]

...But William and his family have little or no freedom, and practically zero choice about what they do in life...

He can surely choose to remove himself from the line of succession if the 'gilded cage' is that unpleasant for him