US sailors go shopping before hitting the bars in Thailand after 250-day voyage
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. By midnight some of the younger sailors there were so inebriated they had to prop each other up. Others edged nervously into the red-lit caverns of the go-go bars, with their gyrating and barely-clothed pole dancers.Image caption, Pattaya is renowned for its racy and neon-lit nightlifeConversation over the pounding music was challenging.
- ▪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.
- ▪By midnight some of the younger sailors there were so inebriated they had to prop each other up.
- ▪Others edged nervously into the red-lit caverns of the go-go bars, with their gyrating and barely-clothed pole dancers.Image caption, Pattaya is renowned for its racy and neon-lit nightlifeConversation over the pounding music was challengin
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| Publication time | Thu, 03 Sep 2026 05:17:04 GMT |
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US sailors go shopping before hitting the bars in Thailand after 250-day voyage<div class="ssrcss-1553su4-ErrorMessage eitf6465"><div class="ssrcss-h7lv7m-StyledInnerContainer eitf6464"><div class="ssrcss-nbxsk2-TextContent eitf6461"><h2 type="normal" class="ssrcss-89o2pv-Heading e10rt3ze0">To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.</h2><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10">This video can not be played</p></div></div></div>Figure caption, Watch: Why US troops have a history in this raucous Thai cityByJonathan HeadSouth East Asia correspondent, Reporting fromPattaya, ThailandPublished1 hour agoFar 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…
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