US sailors go shopping before hitting the bars in Thailand after 250-day voyage

With military haircuts and moustaches, the US sailors stand out against the flip-flops of the usual Pattaya crowd. Far from hitting the bars and fleshpots of the Thai beach resort of Pattaya, in their first hours onshore most of the nearly 5,000 sailors from the USS Abraham Lincoln seemed determined to go shopping [1].

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1. bbc.co.uk · US sailors go shopping before hitting the bars in Thailand after 250-day voyage Sep 3, 2026

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