SAILORS from a US aircraft carrier docked in Brisbane have wasted no time heading ashore for some much-anticipated rest, recuperation and fun.
MORE than 5500 crew members from the USS George Washington are visiting the city and the nearby Gold Coast on shore leave over the next five days.
Crew dressed in civilian clobber began filing off the enormous nuclear-powered ship as soon as they could once it came into the Port of Brisbane on Friday morning.
They're in Australia for July's biennial war games known as Exercise Talisman Sabre and, according to their captain, are looking forward to one of their favourite stopovers.
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