Special Operations Association Reunion XXXVIII, Las Vegas, 2014. An attendee pauses over a drink beneath the association's banner. The crest — a green-bereted skull on a black starburst within a gold-bordered red shield, topped by parachutist wings and underscored by a dagger and the association's name — descends from the unofficial insignia of MACV-SOG, the Studies and Observations Group that ran cross-border reconnaissance into Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War. The green beret marks the Army Special Forces soldiers who led most SOG recon teams. This is an alternate, softer rendition of a frame also held in the collection. Project: 219866