Regarding your edit: You ever see A Bridge Too Far? Where the paratrooper's resupply drops outside their lines, and a desperate soldier braves enemy fire to retrieve it. Only to be shot dead, the cargo pod open, and a thousand crimson paratrooper berets scatter on the wind?

Imagine that, but it's like funko pops or punisher stickers and the sailors are drowning instead of being shot

sailors lining up on the flight deck to suck tapioca pudding out of the drop tanks