Britain's Prince Edward, right, shakes hands with U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Deale, the commander of the 451st Air Expeditionary Wing, at Kandahar Airfield in Afghanistan Dec. 20, 2011. The prince and his wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex, traveled to the airfield to visit with British Royal Air Force members embedded with the 62nd Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron.