Kit Carson Scouts
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The Kit Carson Scouts belonged to a special program initially created by the United States Marine Corps during the Vietnam War involving the use of former Viet Cong and People's Army of Vietnam person
A "Tiger Scout", as the Kit Carsons were called in the U.S. 9th Infantry Division, firing an M60 machine gun
U.S. Marines, led by a Vietnamese Kit Carson Scout during Operation Oklahoma Hills on March 31, 1969
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Christopher Houston Carson, popularly known as Kit Carson, was an American frontiersman, fur trapper, wilderness guide, Indian agent and U.S. Army officer.
Kit Carson Scouts
…one responsibility. Major General Herman Nickerson Jr., commanding the 1st Marine Division (1st MARDIV) at the time, named them Kit Carson Scouts after Kit Carson the American frontiersman. The first six Kit Carson Scouts were placed in the field with the 1st Marine Regiment and 9th Marine Regiments as part of a…
Carson on a visit to Washington, D.C.
Early photograph (possibly the first) of Kit Carson wearing a beaver hat
Mountain man Kit Carson and his favorite horse, Apache, from The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains by De Witt C. Peters. The book was Carson's first biography and was printed in 1858.
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