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Being bottom of the pile may not come naturally to Prince Harry, but he found himself at the base of a human pyramid during a visit to a US Air Force base today. The third in line to the throne gamely got down on all fours to help form a three-tier pyramid with, of all things, a man dressed as a bird on the top. After forming the pyramid and posing for pictures, the Prince adopted an American accent to say “Good job!” On day four of his US tour the Prince, 28, joined cadets at the US Air Force Academy in Colorado for an American Football training session, during which he also watched a display of gymnastics by the cheerleaders for the base’s Falcons gridiron team. He clapped enthusiastically as he watched female cadets being held aloft on one hand by their male counterparts, and before he knew it he had agreed to have a go at a rather simpler balancing act. The Prince managed to rope in Britain’s most senior military officer in the US, Major General Buster Howse, military attache to the British Embassy in Washington, who crouched down beside him at the base of the pyramid. Two cheerleaders crouched on top of them and the mascot, dressed as a Falcon, formed the apex. Cadet Scott Cronin, 19, said: “I was on top of him and he was solid, a solid base. He did great.” Earlier the Prince had tried his hand at being a quarterback at the academy’s full-sized indoor gridiron pitch. | 
