Prince Harry showed he knows his way around a rifle as he joined cadets in training at the US Military Academy at West Point yesterday at the start of his three-day New York visit.
Harry, third in line to the British throne, arrived by helicopter at 1:30 p.m., uniformed in camouflage. He hopped on the back of a Humvee, swapped his light blue beret for a helmet, and headed out for live-fire exercises on the artillery range and field exercises in nearby woods.
Harry, who served in Afghanistan in 2008, fired an M-4 assault rifle along with a team of West Point cadets. “He clearly knows what he’s doing,” Col. Casey Haskins said.
The prince later visited the Intrepid Sea Air and Space Museum in Manhattan, mingling with injured war vets on the flight deck and giving an encouraging speech praising America’s “pioneering work of care in prosthetics and rehabilitation.”