A moment of camp humor amid the tension of covert operations: an American advisor drapes a python over his shoulders as indigenous CIDG troops and a Special Forces NCO look on and laugh. Photographs like this one, from the Barry Pencek collection documenting Operation Tailwind, reveal the camaraderie between American advisors and their Montagnard allies during MACV-SOG's cross-border missions into Laos. Project: 219430