UK Defense Secretary says Prince Harry let down troops by ‘boasting’ about kill count
— saying the exiled royal was “letting down” his brothers in arms by making out like he was “a better person.”when asked about Harry’s confession in his memoir, “Spare,” that he’d killed 25 troops whom he “didn’t think of … as people.”
“I frankly think boasting about tallies or talking about tallies … It distorts the fact that the army is a team game,” he said of how each soldier on the front lines “is supported by hundreds of people behind them.”“If you start talking about who did what, what you’re actually doing is letting down all those other people — because you’re not a better person because you did and they didn’t,” he said.
Harry denied that breaking the unwritten rule not to talk about how many troops you’ve killed was “boasting,” instead calling it a “dangerous lie.”While Wallace is the most high-ranking official to condemn Harry’s revelation, his rebuke is just the latest, withHarry gloats about outranking William in military, says he killed 25 Taliban fighters
One of Wallace’s predecessors, Lord Hutton, previously told LBC that Harry’s brag was “a very serious mistake” that “grates horribly” and is “just wrong on every level.” Still, during his lengthy promotional tour, the privacy-loving prince blamed the suggestion that he’d been “boasting” — the very word Wallace would later use — on
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