Two U.S. Air Force officers pose in mess dress beneath the Special Operations Association banner at the association's annual reunion (SOAR), held in Las Vegas in 2013. The banner's emblem - a skull in a green beret on a red-and-black shield - identifies the Special Operations Association, whose membership is closely tied to veterans of MACV-SOG, the classified Vietnam-era Studies and Observations Group. Formal mess dress with miniature medals marks the reunion's banquet evening, when serving and retired special-operations personnel gather in dress uniform. Project: 219861