DC> down there don't wear cammies. He has them wear what are
 DC> apparently old US "Fatigue" uniforms. He calls the color of these
 DC> uniforms "khaki."
 DC> "Khaki," from the Hindi word for dust, refers to a light tan,
 DC> sometimes called beige or suntan (or in the old Army, "pink"). He
 DC> meant the dark, somewhat brownish green called "Olive Drab," so
 DC> that the old fatigue uniforms were called ODs. Clancy is
 DC> supposedly known for his meticulous research in military affairs,
 DC> and this was in the paperback, not the first edition. So much for
 DC> the erudition of his readers, too. There's another error in the
 DC> book involving the use of Gatoraide in water purified with
Clancy was calling them what 99.99% of the troops called them.  I was one, 
tho not Special anything.  ONLY the official designation in some manuals 
called them by their correct color.  Score one for Clancy.
 DC> Iodine, but I've checked, and apparently the military isn't
 DC> taught about the problem and its solution.
He was dead right on the first one.  Maybe he used "common troop knowledge" 
on the second one too.  What's in the manuals and what's really done are 
often different.  Also, Special Forces have their own "unwritten knowledge."
 DC> I just read a mystery by Susan Isaacs. In this one, the husband

 DC> IBM's sales force. In other words, the chronology is clearly
 DC> wrong.
 DC> I suspect that nearly every book I read has some errors of this
 DC> nature. I probably spot them in one book in five, and usually
 DC> just write a note in the margin and move on. Sometimes they are
 DC> errors of continuity, such as the author forgetting the weapon
 DC> a character is using. More often it's something that suggests I
In MOST cases, I agree with you, but sometimes it's either a matter of whose 
"facts" you take.
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