Word: mistakenness
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Prews are now operating in each province of the Delta IV Corps, and all are volunteers who know the terrain well. At first the Prews dressed as they pleased, but after a few instances of being mistaken for Viet Cong by U.S. helicopter gunners, they adopted tiger suits or the black pajamas of simple peasants as uniforms. Their exploits have not only crimped the morale of the Viet Cong, but beefed up that of the government's regular forces. And their effectiveness cannot always be measured by a single night's work. Two days after the Prews...
...believe that the Democratic party will pay heavily for its own mistaken foreign policy." Galbraith said. "We must work to keep the liberal thinking in front of the people," he continued...
...night near the town of Que Son, 30 miles south of Danang. The company commander radioed battalion headquarters that he had been jumped by a company of North Vietnamese regulars. It was nothing that he could not handle, he said. But he was dangerously mistaken. Facing his 100 leathernecks were some 1,000 North Vietnamese regulars, and they were primed for a fight. "Those people had brand new field telephones, new gas masks, pressed uniforms and shiny weapons," explained a division operations officer later...
...refute the contention that airpower has its limits in Viet Nam. Or demonstrating to the skeptical back home that there is no stalemate over North Viet Nam. Or warning Ho Chi Minh on the eve of the South Vietnamese elections that a willingness to negotiate should not be mistaken for any weakening of resolve. Whatever the reason, American fighter-bombers ranged up and down the vital railroad links between Hanoi and China last week, dispatching box cars, bridges and marshaling yards with lethal efficiency. Other sorties hit army barracks, antiaircraft emplacements, SAM sites and the Hoa Lac airfield -where...
...woman with a loaded, cocked revolver in her hand walked into a Flor ida police station," reported the July issue of the American Rifleman. "To the officer behind the desk, she ex plained that she thought she had heard a prowler but was mistaken. 'Now I can't get it uncocked,' she said. The officer helpfully eased down the hammer without firing...