Three attendees of the 2014 Special Operations Association Reunion, photographed informally beneath a ballroom chandelier. All three wear matching grey group shirts with a common chest emblem and the reunion's standard black badge holders, printed SPECIAL OPERATIONS ASSOCIATION and carrying each man's name — here John Waresh and Doug Carmichael, the third badge turned away. The bearded man's ballcap reads RETIRED USAF. 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; at reunions such as this, the name badge is the whole introduction required. Project: 219862