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

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By Jonathan Head Verified, Nongnapat Patcham
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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. At the Hard Rock Hotel – one of two beachside hotels where they were able to stay off the ship – they hung around clutching their recent purchases. But perhaps, after a record 250 days confined inside a grey steel warship, the normality of a trip to the mall might have been just what they needed.
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Shopping to bar-hopping: USS Abraham Lincoln sailors unwind in Thailand after 250-day voyage

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By Jonathan Head Verified
| Yahoo Verified
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. At the Hard Rock Hotel – one of two beachside hotels where they were able to stay off the ship – they hung around clutching their recent purchases. But perhaps, after a record 250 days confined inside a grey steel warship, the normality of a trip to the mall might have been just what they needed.
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USS Abraham Lincoln: US sailors unwind in Thailand by shopping and bar-hopping

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By Jonathan Head Verified
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14 hours ago After a gruelling nine months cooped up at sea, the bright lights and carnal pleasures of Thailand’s “Sin City” beckoned the 5,000 US sailors like a siren. On Wednesday, the USS Abraham Lincoln docked in Pattaya after 286 days on the water and, for many of its beleaguered sailors on board, there …
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