Two serving U.S. Air Force officers in blue mess dress pose beneath the Special Operations Association banner at the organization's annual reunion banquet, Las Vegas, circa 2013. The Association's emblem, a bereted skull on a red and black spearhead ringed by the words SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION, marks a membership drawn heavily from MACV-SOG, the Vietnam-era Studies and Observations Group. The formal banquet is one of the few reunion occasions at which uniforms appear, worn by currently serving members alongside the veterans in civilian dress. Project: 219854