Viet Nam Kit Carson Scouts- a question for Veterans

[Old TexMex]

Sirs:
A buddy has been writing a treatise on the Kit Carson Scouts in our war in Viet Nam. He only teased me with a few bits of information (as the work is in progress) and got me to thinking that maybe a few of the members here may have had contact with that aspect, and how that worked. My curiosity's working overtime, and a lot of the published stuff is a little thin. The photos on the interwebs say a lot more than the reading material I've seen.
Thank you

 

[jlrhiner]

There is a good Wikipedia article here, Kit Carson Scouts - Wikipedia
That has a lot of info. I don't, however, have any way to verify it.

 

[Steve912]

Chieu Hoi!

Chieu Hoi - Wikipedia

 

[vonn]

We had one once in awhile,didn't have much contact with him. As I recall not trusted by most in the unit.

 

[mtgianni]

We had one once in awhile,didn't have much contact with him. As I recall not trusted by most in the unit.

Interesting comment. A friend was a dog handler and eventually learned he had to lie to get a response. If the dog alerted and showed signs of enemy contact at 75 yards the scout teams would come back after 40 yards and say the dog is wrong. He eventually had to get to 50 yards and tell them contact was a 100 yards away if they were actually to intercept anything.

 

[Steve912]

We had one once in awhile,didn't have much contact with him. As I recall not trusted by most in the unit.

Heard the same from several LRRPs.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

Chieu Hoi!

Chieu Hoi - Wikipedia

If my old memory is working correctly, 'chieu hoi' was a command to surrender, also used as a declaration of surrender. Those who voluntarily surrendered and went on to assist US and RVN units (scouts, etc) were known as ***y chan'. Very few were trusted by field unit personnel.

 

[LoboGunLeather]

If my old memory is working correctly, 'chieu hoi' was a command to surrender, also used as a declaration of surrender. Those who voluntarily surrendered and went on to assist US and RVN units (scouts, etc) were known as ***y chan'. Very few were trusted by field unit personnel.

For some reason the censoring program has not permitted my use of the term for surrendered VC/NVA personnel, commonly referred to as h-o-i-c-h-a-n (delete the hyphens).