There'll always be an Australia

Posted By Thomas E. Ricks Thursday, January 15, 2009 - 4:28 PM Share

I am not making this up. An Australian submarine commander says the solution to his service's recruiting crisis might be having female sailors wear bikinis. I am not kidding. He also disclosed in a magazine interview that "the submariner equivalent of the notorious 'mile-high club' for people having sexual intercourse on planes was the 'going down club.'" 

 
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Thomas E. Ricks covered the U.S. military for the Washington Post from 2000 through 2008.

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