The relief was palpable in the Thai resort city of Pattaya, as after nine months at sea, the sailors and Marines of the USS Abraham Lincoln traded their cargo pants and boots for shorts and flip-flops.

The relief was palpable in the Thai resort city of Pattaya, as after nine months at sea, the sailors and Marines of the USS Abraham Lincoln traded their cargo pants and boots for shorts and flip-flops. ↧ USS Lincoln’s thousands of service personnel swap boots for flip-... 5,000 sailors and Marines from the aircraft carrier are in the resort city of Pattaya on their first break after a record-long deployment mostly spent supporting the Iran war.