An American Special Forces advisor and an indigenous soldier pose together at a forward base camp, both wearing tiger-stripe camouflage favored by MACV-SOG reconnaissance teams. Photographs like this one, from the Gene McCarley Collection related to the secret 1970 Operation Tailwind incursion into Laos, document the close partnership between U.S. advisors and local strike force personnel who carried out some of the war's most dangerous covert missions. Project: 219454