[Slam]

argh.

[Leisler]

If Gore was President the Navy would of stoped in Key West or Provincetown and waiters, decorators and actors all over the country would of been writing their congress critters.

[rmlew]

Sailors using the serices of hookers. The Shock, the horror, the temerity.

This is not newsworthy, not because it might offend people, but because it is the norm.

Fleet Week in New York is a busy time too. It is a yearly event here. Who cares?

I just hope this doesn't become another conflict where we have more casualties from VD than from fighting.
Will the Stennis have a Clap Ward?

[RLK]

Only a decade ago, as it went to war with Saddam Hussein, the USS Acadia, a supply ship, went to sea and soon had an abundant supply of pregnant sailors. Exactly 10 percent of its crew of 360 not-so-able-bodied seapersons were sent home when they were discovered to be expecting more than combat.

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This has been a problem in the gender-mixed armed services since their inception. Considering not all the personnel of the vessel were women, somewher from 25-30% of them got pregnant. --the love boat.

[Tuor]

"We at the Sun used poor judgment in deciding to run the Associated Press story about Navy sailors and exhausted prostitutes in Australia," wrote Mr. Ware for his newspaper. "Let us not give any further life to the story by going into the details.

They broke a Navy rule. A very important and usually unspoken rule: what happens overseas, stays overseas. It is true that newspaper reporters aren't sailors, and so are not as strictly bound to this rule, but they should adhere to it nonetheless.

Tuor