>The captain of the HMS Queen Elizabeth has just been relieved of command, reportedly over borrowing the ship’s car for personal use
>Here is where things get ironic. The Queen Elizabeth, also known as Big Lizzy, was commissioned in December 2017, but is still sailing around without an air wing, due to the bottleneck in UK purchases of the US-built F-35B fighters. The fifth-generation stealth jet made by Lockheed Martin has been plagued by software and hardware problems, and is also one of the most expensive weapons programs ever.
> Until then, however, the Queen Elizabeth is a carrier without actual planes. So the US military has proposed an inventive stopgap solution: Send in the Marines!
>A USMC fighter squadron is currently preparing to deploy aboard the Royal Navy carrier sometime in 2021, said the Marine Corps’ chief aviator, Lieutenant-General Steven Rudder.
>“It's going to be a wonderful new way – and I will offer, potentially a new norm – of doing coalition combined allied operations with a maritime partner,” Rudder said at the annual Sea-Air-Space conference on May 7, according to Military.com.
>So the British taxpayers ponied up billions of pounds for building Big Lizzy only to turn it over to the Americans, yet Commodore Cook-Priest gets in trouble for borrowing a Ford minivan? What a deal.
kek At this point, it might actually be real liberation instead of just memes.
Alexander Butler
They'll have to settle for vassalage. By no means do we want their population permitted freedom of movement with ours. I couldn't imagine a more repugnant possibility.
Brody Baker
What do you expect. It's their plane after all.
Christopher Jones
This should really *ramp up* the Marines's deployment rate.
These. As someone who manages a government vehicle fleet I can assure you that literally no commander cares to prosecute vehicle misuse, because that would mean that their own history of vehicle misuse would come into the spotlight. Unless of course they're trying to find something that will stick easily.
Isaac Kelly
Fuck it, name it something that really pissed off the lobsterbacks. Like the USS Washington or something.
Isaiah Harris
name it the USS Taft imagine your ship being named after one of the most famous queens in the world and when Americans take your ship they decide to just name it after a guy who was known for liking apple pie and being BIG
kek At least Taft has some recognition due to his rotundness. Imagine naming the thing after a real nobody like Millard Fillmore or something.
Asher Russell
Didn't he get stuck in a Bath Tub?
Camden Lopez
>US gets UK carrier But everything you posted implies that it'll just be US planes flying off her deck while she does whatever the British Navy does with its fleet
Asher Flores
Name it the USS Yorktown.
Landon Brown
No, I think the story was that he had to have a special bath tub craned into the second floor of the White House cause the current one was too small.
This.
Carson Collins
So the story isn't real, damn. I guess we can name it USS William Harrison instead.
Elijah Thompson
>But everything you posted implies that it'll just be US planes flying off her deck while she does whatever the British Navy does with its fleet shithead, US won't fly planes under the command of Brits. Clearly the US will do with the carrier what it pleases and the UK will go back to sucking paki cock.
Jordan Campbell
They're the one's at fault for relying on a foreign nation for their defence needs. Your sole supply of a weapon system should never be outside of your own borders.
Logan Cruz
In awe at the size of this lad. Absolute unit.
Robert Hughes
>UK gives Queen E to USMC!!!! >Well actually they're just letting the marines ride until Lockmart unfucks itself >article is from RT can't say I'm the least bit surprised by that
Im also hoping for a french flag for the lulz, but that might be a stretch for the marines to get that witty
Hudson Sullivan
>french flag a white flag? someone's bedsheets? kek
Kayden Cruz
This has been known for over 5 years now, Im not sure how this is embarrassing or even news to anyone who has remotely followed the QE program.
Are you guys actually surprised the USMC/Navy and Royal Navy operate really intimately with eachother? What? Daily reminder to report Jow Forums posters
I bet he wasn't from some connected family and this is the nobles shitting on him like in my bbc dramas right? ITS ALWAYS THE NOBILITY.
Owen Edwards
>Something something drink driving >Something something having sex with female staff >Marines have always being on the cards for providing the air wing, tit for tat. >As in Brits are going to fly from marine vessels, eventually >We just want to be mad, stop presenting facts >Now there's a nigger in Buckingham palace and something something ending up like his mother
Dunno man. Royalty isn't behind this one, maybe the next one though. Sure wouldn't like to be taking any long trips to SA soon in harry's position, yikes.
Isaac Jackson
They're even trying to hide the fact that the UK basically made/let the US replace the Royal Navy.
Jonathan Young
ah just some tail? Shit officers get away with that shit all the time. must have been sloppy as you said.
Jordan Green
>QEII and Zumwalt in the same photo Gotta be the memeiest formation ever.
Noah Lee
SEETHING
Aaron Barnes
>bongs build carrier >bongs want ro buy jet for carrier >mutts can't deliver jet for bongs >somehow it's bongs who are at fault
Daniel Barnes
Imagine if an UNDER 18 was able to acquire that and - god forbid - some pliers. The UNDER 18 could cut of the end of the whisk and thus create a 10 pointed assault stabbing implement. Her Majesty's police force would be powerless to stop any UNDER 18 armed with such a dangerous and destructive weapon.
Jonathan Turner
I didn't know Jow Forums was into Monty Python.
Adam Rivera
>that murder mystery about pliers
KEK
William Martinez
>super-solid blue state Given the population, the UK as a single state would return a HUGE bloc of blue congressmen every election. But really, the UK should probably be sseveral states. At least Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, Northern England and Southern England. Which would be a huge bloc of blue senators. But I think it would all be worth it to watch US Marines kicking the shit out of IRA faggots if they started their shit again.
Gabriel Harris
Considering the widespread American sympathies for the IRA, I’m not sure if that’d go over well. There were a number of private citizens sending them weapons during the troubles.
Jonathan Myers
>cucked by the USA >cucked by India >cucked by the EU >now cucked by the USA again Will the cuckening ever end?
William Carter
>widespread sympathies Some plastic paddies in Boston. Sympathy for the bognigger will dry up pretty quickly even amongst them once the IRA blows the legs off some Pfc. Dickinass from Bumfuck, West Virginia.
This. Lockheed martin are the biggest jews in the defense industrial complex.
Liam Parker
So a mulatto is decent stock now?
Britain unironically has a black, jew, prince now.
Samuel Smith
>Britain unironically has a black, jew, prince now.
That is being packaged off to South Africa in hopes it dies and doesn't come back to shit up the bigger picture. Seriously old lizzie is pissed off with ginger nuts harry.
