Special Operations Association Reunion XXXVIII, Las Vegas, 2014. Doug Carmichael, named on the tape beneath the aviator wings on his chest, wears the orange 'party suit' of an A-1 Skyraider squadron. His shoulder patch carries the callsigns Firefly and Hobo alongside 'Spad'; a red diamond reads 'SPADS'; and a black pirate flag reads 'Yankee Air Pirate', a term American aircrew took up from North Vietnamese propaganda. Skyraider squadrons flew strike, escort and rescue-support missions over Laos in support of MACV-SOG reconnaissance teams. This file is a reduced-size rendition of a professional event photograph held at full size elsewhere in the collection. Project: 219876