Originally Posted by
Asturias56
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in July 2007, Illustrious took part in a US-led Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFX) off the eastern coast of the United States (for which she hosted 14 US Harrier jets and 200 US Marines) before returning to Portsmouth the following month"
So yes but you don't want to get in the way of a good press release do you?
If only you understood the difference between what happened in that instance in 2007 and what is happening now.
Still, you don't want to get in the way of a good dig at the carrier programme or TPL, do you?