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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[jim-lane.livejournal.com]

An old (retired) cop friend of mine told a tale (I believe him) of, during the Vietnam war, leading a squad of soldiers into a neighboring country where "they didn't exist" (I know of which he speaks). They were captured by a group of "charlies", and one by one, his men were tortured and killed, trying to make him (the leader) divulge critical information. The "charlies" had worked their way down to him (having killed all the others), and had him hanging upside down in a tree, beating him towards death.

And then a squad of Aussies (also in the country where "they didn't exist") came upon the scene, and the Aussies toasted the "charlies", thereby saving my friend's life.

In later years, when he became a cop here in the US, he would NEVER issue an Aussie a citation for ANYTHING. Period.

Paybacks can be forever...