And he’s here. Prince Harry of Wales has arrived at Naval Air Facility El Centro for a month to complete his training in Apache helicopters.
Capt. Wales, as he is known in the British Army Air Corps, arrived in California on Thursday, announced St. James’s Palace on Friday morning. Wales will work to complete the final training exercise of his Apache helicopter Conversion to Role Course. The training he will do in Imperial County and Gila Bend, Ariz., is called Exercise Crimson Eagle.
The training will start in El Centro with a focus on aviation environmental training. He and about 20 other soldiers will have to handle the AH-64D Apache helicopter through different scenarios in the mountainous and desert environment, including dust landings and limited power training during the day and night.
From there the group will move to Gila Bend to do live-fire exercises. The live firing phase is the final assessment in weapons handling to achieve their live firing qualifications.
