Soldier, and Team Leader, With a Kit Carson Scout

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Title: Soldier, and Team Leader, With a Kit Carson Scout
Personal Creator(s): David Weeks II
Created Date: 1970
Subject: Viet Cong
friends
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Vietnamese
North Vietnamese Army (NVA)
Kit Carson Scouts
infantrymen
scouts
combatants
Description: Jim Bates & Thny. "Jim was my Team Leader and Thny was a Kit Carson Scout. We were lucky to get a couple of good ones. Their families were killed by the VC/NVA, so they wanted them more than we did". The Kit Carson Scouts (Vietnamese: Hồi Chánh Viên, a term loosely translated as "members who have returned to the righteous side") belonged to a special program initially created by the U.S. Marine Corps during the Vietnam War involving the use of former Viet Cong combatants as intelligence scouts for American infantry units. Photo and comments by David Weeks II.
Publisher: Images hosted by: Salt Lake Community College
Type of Resource: still image
Digital Origins: reformatted digital
Language: eng
Rights Management: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/
Source: Original version: Collection with various creators donated by Bernie Weisz; Archival digital version: SLCC Digital Archives. CREATIVE COMMONS Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Public License.
Conversion Specifications: JPG Files downloaded from Facebook Profile with permission of the Profile Owner, then processed using Photoshop to generate archival TIFFs.
Local Identifier: 16-3502