Description
A Vietnamese “Tiger Scout” (as Kit Carson Scouts were called in 9th Division) during the Vietnam War. Firing an M60 machine gun while an American behind him fires an M79 grenade launcher. 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.
