A serviceman in blotched jungle camouflage fatigues checks the arming fittings on the underwing stores of a loaded attack aircraft on a Southeast Asian ramp. Rocket tubes, finned bombs and dispensers crowd the wing, and black-and-white REMOVE BEFORE FLIGHT streamers hang from every arming wire — pulled only in the final moments before launch. The four-colour leaf-pattern uniform, sidearm and jungle boots were characteristic of Air Commando and special-operations personnel supporting cross-border operations. Photographs like this one, taken by squadron members rather than official photographers, were later scanned for a veterans' reunion banner project. Project: 219858