A gray-haired airman braces against a charged fire hose and soaks a colleague standing in the spray, in what is almost certainly the traditional hosing-down of a pilot returning from a milestone or final combat mission — a long-established Air Force custom. Behind them sits a Douglas A-1 Skyraider in three-tone Southeast Asia camouflage. Its fin carries the two-letter tail code TC above the last digits of its serial, of which an 8 is visible. In the Southeast Asia tail code system, TC is the code commonly recorded for the 1st Special Operations Squadron flying Skyraiders from Nakhon Phanom Royal Thai Air Base, making this aircraft a stablemate of the 'TS'-coded 22nd Special Operations Squadron machines identified elsewhere in this collection. Both men wear olive drab utility uniforms; the flooded apron reflects the monsoon season. Project: 219827