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  During the first Gulf War, American air traffic controllers in Saudi Arabia were confused by British pilots often referring to their position as 'over MMFD'. Assuming that MMFD was a secret code word for a particular location, they asked their superiors for the lat/long coordinates of it so they could plot it on their maps. Nobody knew where it was so it was assumed to be ultra-top-secret and the question arrived on Gen. Schwartzkopf's desk. Puzzled, he asked his ADC to quiz his opposite number on the British side, Major Mark Chapman, who was ADC to Sir Peter de la Billiere.
  
  The Americans were not amused to find that MMFD meant 'Miles and miles of f****** desert'.
  
  Story told to me by Mark Chapman himself at the time.

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