Retired Army Captain Gary 'Mike' Rose (center), flanked by Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley, poses at the White House on October 23, 2017, after receiving the Medal of Honor for extraordinary heroism as a Special Forces medic during the secret 1970 MACV-SOG Operation Tailwind incursion into Laos. Rose's belated recognition, 47 years after the mission, shed public light on one of the Vietnam War's most daring covert operations. Project: 219443