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Pic shows: All action Prince Harry in full James Bond mode as he goes on manoeuvres with Australian Defence Force<br />
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Captain Harry Wales has completed his four week military exchange with the Australian Defence Force. After returning to Australia from Centenary of Anzac commemorations in Gallipoli, Captain Wales has completed the final two weeks of his Australian Army attachment, training with soldiers of the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) in Perth Western Australia and the 2nd Commando Regiment in Sydney New South Wales. Captain Wales challenged himself against elements of the gruelling SASR selection course, including a fitness test and a physical training session with SASR selection candidates. Captain Wales also joined SASR members in Perth for live fire shooting exercises with numerous Special Forces weapons at a variety of ranges and completed an insertion training exercise using a rigid hull inflatable boat. In Sydney this week, Captain Wales undertook urban operations training with the 2nd Commando Regiment. Training activities included remotely detonating an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) and repelling from a building. Captain Wales also spent time flying over Sydney as co-pilot of an Army Black Hawk and participated in counter-terrorism training on Sydney Harbour with Royal Australian Navy clearance divers. While at the Australian Army’s Holsworthy Barracks in Sydney, Captain Wales visited the high performance rehabilitation wing of the Soldier Recovery Centre and participated in a mountain bike training activity alongside some of the Army’s wounded, injured and ill members. During the first phase of his Australian military attachment Captain Wales spent two weeks in the Northern Territory which included meeting the local Indigenous community, a patrol with the North-West Mobile Force (NORFORCE) in the remote Kununurra region and time with 1st Brigade in Darwin where he flew an Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) Tiger. Captain Wales’ attachm
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