Ken Scar's U.S. Army photographs have been published by 60 Minutes, TIME, The Huffington Post, The Washington Post, USA Today, CNN, Fox News, Stars and Stripes, and many other media outlets all over the world. He was named the 2013 Paul. D. Savanuck Military Journalist of the Year by the Department of the Army and garnered dozens of awards for his storytelling during his eight-year career as a U.S. Army photojournalist.

From a 2015 MAXIM Magazine retrospective of Scars combat photography:

"In the summer of 2011, the 7th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment out of Ft. Hood, Texas began a 12-month tour in Afghanistan. As members of a public affairs unit, the soldiers of 7th MPAD were tasked with a wide range of responsibilities, from acting as liaisons between the military and civilian journalists to assisting in crisis relief. But their primary mission was to document the war. “If we could get a soldier’s picture in Stars and Stripes, or in a hometown paper, it would raise the morale of that soldier’s entire unit,” says Sgt. Kenneth Scar, who left a career painting theater sets on Broadway to join the Army, at age 40. “That was the best part of the job.” Scar spent the duration of his tour traversing the high altitude landscape of eastern Afghanistan, photographing the conflict as it played out in the mountainside villages and river valleys of the Hindu Kush. Together, his photographs offer a breathtaking panorama of one of the most notorious battlefields of the Global War on Terror: “RC East.” This is his story."