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You're good to go on that idea.
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Awesome, writing him up now.

Edit: As a thought, the PAVN units most active in this era are the ones sent down to help set up the Ho Chi Minh Trail and the logistics system to get supplies down to the Viet Cong. This becomes increasingly important to the war effort as it is also how troops are moved down it. Starting in 1959, the North Vietnamese government commits to supporting the insurgency in the South as the Ngo Dinh Diem regime makes it abundantly clear that there will be no referendum vote on unification per the 1954 Geneva Accords (distinct from the Geneva Conventions and I still get them confused in terminology) that temporarily partitioned the nation after the French pulled out.

To wit, Diem knew he would lose that vote to Ho Chi Minh and had abundant (but uneasy, because no one really trusted or liked him, and this definitely includes John F. Kennedy and Maxwell Taylor, who are more put off their feed by corruption and venality than, say, LBJ, who said, "Well hell, he's our boy.") support from the French and then the Americans so he decided to give Uncle Ho the finger. He, as a Catholic from the North, had a lot of strong supporters that were recent arrivals from the North who helped form his regime. This, incidentally, was part of the rift between mandarin types that were Catholic and part of the regime, often French speakers, and peasants who were often Buddhists and had grievances accordingly. 

There are a lot of frictions in the Republic of Vietnam and Diem has a credibilty problem. His brother Nhu is another powerful figure in there and so is his wife, Madame Nhu, who is considered a huge power player in Saigon politics.