EXCLUSIVE Inside the wild Fleet Week party where lonely sailors look for love... and a ring on the finger counts for nothing
Each May, as uniformed sailors flood New York City like it's 1945, a certain brand of Big Apple woman sets her sights on a specific target: a military man with a six-pack and zero attachments.
But this year, the unofficial heart of Fleet Week was not a docked warship.
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