The end of the ritual. Still streaming water from the fire hose soaking recorded in adjacent frames, a pilot bows his head as a fellow airman presses a cup of champagne into his hand. The officer offering it wears a sage green flight suit with an embroidered name tape, a 'U.S. AIR FORCE' tape and aircrew wings, and carries a 35mm single-lens reflex camera on a neck strap — plausibly one of the cameras that made these very slides. Another airman in aviator sunglasses looks on, and behind them a man in a blue Air Force garrison cap stands among shirtless onlookers. At left a fire hose is still running, and the wing of a Douglas A-1 Skyraider enters the frame above. Steep green conical hills close the horizon beyond the airfield, terrain characteristic of South Vietnam. Project: 219827