Watermarked reference copy of a photograph from the Edward Blyth collection. A reconnaissance soldier rides an in-flight utility helicopter, likely a UH-1, over Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. He wears a cloth headband in place of a hat, a webbing harness with the heavy snap link used for helicopter extraction rigs, and keeps a field radio handset at his ear. Behind him a helicopter crewman in flight helmet, boom microphone and aircrew body armor watches through the open cabin window, beside a belt of linked ammunition feeding a door gun. Images like this document the brief, tense helicopter transit that opened and closed nearly every cross-border reconnaissance mission run by MACV-SOG. Project: 219838