The colour blue.

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It turns out that Iranian forces made an earlier concerted attempt to seize a boarding party from the Royal Australian Navy. The Australians, though, to quote one military source, "were having none of it". The BBC has been told the Australians re-boarded the vessel they had just searched, aimed their machine guns at the approaching Iranians and warned them to back off, using what was said to be "highly colourful language".

This is why the Aussie armed forces aren't used on peace keeping missions. They shoot back. And use colourful language.

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I had a mate on a supply ship during Gulf War #1. His ship carried enough jet fuel to keep the US Navy plains in the air for 4 months, so they were surrounded by a lot of US escorts. Since they were technically not a "war ship" they didn't have to wear all the protective clothing, and used this to upset the US sailors by having shirtless BBQs on the helicopter deck.

There were quite a few International Exchanges: slabs of beef for slabs of beer etc.