K: Kilometer
KAK WHEEL: Carried on a thick string around an RTOs neck to encrypt map coordinates.
KBA: Killed by artillery
K-BAR: Combat knife with a six-inch blade and hard leather handle, used mostly by the Marine Corps.
KHMER ROUGE: "Red Khmers." The forces of the Cambodian Communist Party.
KHONG BIET: Vietnamese for "I don't know" or "I don't understand."
KHONG TOI: Not bad.
KHONG XAU: Vietnamese slang for "don't worry about it," literally, "not bad"
KIA: Killed in action.
KILL ZONE: The radius of a circle around an explosive device within which it is predicted that 95 percent of all occupants will be killed should the device explode.
KILLING ZONE: The area within an ambush where everyone is either killed or wounded.
KILO: Military phonetic for the letter 'K'.
KIT CARSON SCOUT: Former Viet Cong who act as guides for U.S. military units
KLICK (Click), K: Short for kilometer (.62 miles).
KOOL-AID: Killed in action.
KOON SA: The wacky weed.
KP: Kitchen police. Mess Hall detail which entailed washing all the pots and pans, dishes, etc.
KPNFL: Khmer People's National Liberation Front. The major non-Communist Cambodian political and resistance organization fighting against the Vietnamese occupation force. Formed in 1979 by former prime minister Son Sann, the KPNFL is responsible for caring for and protecting nearly two-thirds of the 250,000 Cambodian refugees on the Thailand border from attacks by both the Khmer Rouge and the Vietnamese. Also called the Sereika by Cambodians, the KPNLF joined the resistance coalition government (CGOK) in 1982 and shared Cambodia's seat at the United Nations.
