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Heck, on a somewhat related note, I was reading "Debt of Honor" again and noticed that the great Tom Clancy called the Sig P-220 a 9mm and made mention of an Air Force corporal and the USS United States, a Nimitz class carrier.
So even the supposed master gets it wrong occassionally.
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Pretty much all media is screwed up in one manner or another - it's just that very few people are expert enough in enough areas to catch all of it.
For all of his expertise in military/government affairs, and his generally good track record for accuracy in those areas, Clancy once gave one of his characters a male calico cat. While they *do* exist, they're rare enough that if one shows up in a book without some reference to their rarity, it's probably because the author doesn't know any better.