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Kit Carson
noun
a former Viet Cong who has become a scout or translator for the US Army US, 1970
The allusion is to the scouting abilities of Kit Carson (1809–68), a legend of the US West.- “Lieutenant Jackson, go over to the ARVNs and pick up that Kit Carson Scout.” — William Pelfrey, The Big V, p. 138, 1972
- The new troops had a Kit Carson along, one of the hundreds of North Vietnamese who had surrendered and been reindoctrinated and were not working for us. — Anthony Herbert, Soldier, p. 253, 1973
- American infantry platoons came increasingly to depend upon Hoi Chanh Kit Carson scouts[.] — Tom Mangold, The Tunnels of Cu Chi, p. 197, 1985
- He would never be made into a Kit Carson, one of those former VC who had turned coats and chosen to work for the Americans in exchange for amnesty and money. — Barry Sadler, Casca: The Phoenix, p. 147, 1985
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