A UH-1 helicopter lifts men out of the jungle on an extraction ladder, the recon team still dangling beneath the aircraft as it clears the ridge. Reconnaissance teams of MACV-SOG, operating across the Laotian and Cambodian borders, frequently had no landing zone at all and were pulled out on ladders, ropes or STABO rigs, often under fire. This particular file is a small, low-resolution web reproduction gathered as candidate source imagery for a Special Operations Association Reunion banner, not an original photograph. Project: 219860