An indigenous member of a MACV-SOG reconnaissance team smiles for the camera while carrying a bayoneted rifle and field gear at a staging area, with trucks and fellow soldiers assembled in the background beneath a stormy sky. Photographed during the service of Lt. Col. Gene McCarley with the Studies and Observations Group, which relied heavily on Montagnard, Nung, and other indigenous personnel for its clandestine cross-border missions into Laos and Cambodia. Project: 218854