A wide view of a panel session at the 2014 Special Operations Association Reunion, held in a hotel ballroom beneath a crystal chandelier. Panellists sit at two long skirted tables either side of a lectern; a man in an olive flight suit stands at the left of the stage, and a veteran in a lettered ballcap addresses the room leaning on a cane. Perhaps thirty attendees, nearly all of them older men in casual dress, listen from rows of banquet chairs. The Special Operations Association is closely bound to the veterans of MACV-SOG, the Vietnam-era organisation that ran cross-border reconnaissance into Laos and Cambodia, and sessions like this are the heart of the annual gathering. Project: 219862