| 'During the first Gulf War, the USAF and the RAF had the same maps and
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| Communication was very informal. |
| On a training mission a Tornado was
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| Asked whether it had reached a certain point, when the British pilot
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| Replied that he was still over MMFD. |
| As time went by many American
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| Pilots heard the location repeated and looked desperately on their maps
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| But couldn’t find the area designated MMFD. |
| They thought it could be the
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| KKMC for King Khaled Military City or the KFC for Kentucky Fried Chicken
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| But all was permanently discounted. |
| Eventually through a Brit pilot they
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| Came to know that MMFD stood for «miles and miles of fucking desert'
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| (Adapted from Frederick Forsyth’s The Fist of God) |