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Pink boxers may have won him fame. But Army Spc. Zachary Boyd of Fort Worth should have clothing befitting a Scottish warrior, the Scottish-American Military Society decided.
So with help from donors in the U.S., Canada and Scotland, the society gave Boyd a kilt and all the accessories Saturday.It was a Stewart tartan kilt, because the Boyd family is part of the highland clan of that name, the society said.Boyd, a 2007 graduate of Central High School in Keller, drew worldwide attention when a photo published in The New York Times showed him fighting the Taliban in his boxers.His Viper Company troops had received fire in the Korengal Valley of eastern Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. Taliban fighters had ambushed a patrol of U.S. soldiers as they scrambled to get back "inside the wire."Boyd, 20, who had just gone to bed, grabbed his helmet and M4 carbine but not his pants. He positioned himself with fellow Viper Company troops at a wall, scanning for targets.He and the other troops weren’t mindful of a camera shutter clicking away as they poured machine-gun fire and mortar rounds into the valley. So Boyd was captured by photographer David Guttenfelder of The Associated Press as he fought the Taliban in pink boxers decorated with the slogan "I Love New York" and a bright, red Woolley’s Frozen Custard T-shirt under his flak jacket.Scores of admirers, including Defense Secretary Robert Gates, praised him for being so eager to engage the enemy that he hadn’t bothered to pull on his camouflage trousers. Encouraging e-mails have poured in from as far as Austria, Japan and China, he said.
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