{"id":81264,"date":"2018-08-21T12:36:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81264"},"modified":"2018-08-21T12:36:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T16:36:45","slug":"the-royal-navys-prized-new-carrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81264","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Navy&#8217;s prized new carrier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/hms-queen-elizabeth-e1534868785347.jpg\" alt=\"hms qe\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/off-duty\/military-culture\/2018\/08\/20\/commence-jealousy-the-royal-navy-just-opened-a-pub-on-its-prized-new-carrier\/\">Military Times<\/a> reports that while the future flagship of the Royal Navy, aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth, isn\u2019t scheduled to complete its first real deployment until 2021, that hasn\u2019t kept the Brits from ensuring one morale-boosting element is installed and standing by for duty.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new pub, known as the Queen\u2019s Head, was christened last week aboard the Queen Elizabeth and will be available to officers and senior enlisted during the ship\u2019s maiden transit of the Atlantic, a journey that began Aug. 18 and one that features two embarked U.S. F-35B Lightning II aircraft from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>The Wiltshire-based Wadworth brewery, which created an ale specifically for the ship\u2019s December 2017 commissioning \u2014 a beverage appropriately named \u201cCarrier Ale\u201d \u2014 was instrumental in bringing the pub to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been a long time in the planning, well before the carrier was commissioned last year,&#8221; brewery CEO Chris Welham said in a Wadworth press release. &#8220;The Mess looks really great and will provide a relaxing environment along with some fine beer for the team on board when they have some downtime.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If only our Navy was so civilized. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Military Times reports that while the future flagship of the Royal Navy, aircraft carrier HMS Queen &hellip; <a title=\"The Royal Navy&#8217;s prized new carrier\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81264\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Royal Navy&#8217;s prized new carrier<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}