Pilot Prince William in Falklands for 6-week tour (omg!)

FILE - In this March 31, 2011 file photo, Britain's Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge and a Royal Air Force helicopter pilot, sits at the controls of a Sea King helicopter. Prince William will be deployed to the politically sensitive Falkland Islands in 2012 as an air force search and rescue pilot, according to Britain's defense ministry. Prince William's deployment is a sore point for Argentina, whose foreign ministry complained on Tuesday Jan. 31, 2012 that the royal will arrive on our soil in the uniform of a conquistador, and not with the wisdom of a statesman who works for peace and dialogue between nations, after Britain announced that it is sending an advanced warship to the disputed South Atlantic archipelago, which Argentina claims as the Malvinas Islands. (AP Photo/John Stillwell/PA, File) UNITED KINGDOM OUT

LONDON (AP) — Prince William arrived in the Falkland Islands on Thursday for a six-week deployment as a search and rescue helicopter pilot, British officials said, amid an escalating sovereignty dispute with Argentina over the territory.

The Ministry of Defense confirmed that William, known in the service as Flight Lt. Wales, landed on the British outpost as part of a four-member

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