Fellow veterans gather around Colonel Gary 'Mike' Rose at a reception held in his honor on 23 October 2017, the day he received the Medal of Honor for his heroism during the classified MACV-SOG mission Operation Tailwind in Laos, 1970. Nearly five decades after the operation, the men who served alongside him celebrated the long-overdue recognition of one of the Vietnam War's most extraordinary acts of valor. Project: 219446