Dak To, Republic of Vietnam, circa 1970. Soldiers gather at a water tanker on the red laterite of a forward base in the Central Highlands. Dak To and nearby Kontum served as the launch sites for Command and Control Central, the MACV-SOG element that ran cross-border reconnaissance and raiding operations - among them Operation Tailwind, the September 1970 Hatchet Force incursion into southern Laos. Behind the drama of such missions lay long stretches of ordinary camp routine: waiting for weather, waiting for aircraft, and filling canteens. Project: 219514