SOAR XXXVII, Las Vegas, 2013. Three attendees share a laugh on the ballroom floor of the thirty-seventh Special Operations Association Reunion. The badge at left identifies Larry Cavender, a guest of Don Engebretsen; the shirt at center carries the association's skull-in-beret emblem. Behind them hang the 'SOAR' event banners and the association shield, with the flags of allied nations overhead. Photographs like this one record the reunion's essential purpose: not ceremony, but the company of men who had served together in the cross-border operations of MACV-SOG and related units. Project: 219854