Wearing his First Aviation Brigade hat, Texas County resident John Hulbert points to the area of Vietnam where he served with the Army in 1973 and 1974 on a framed map mounted in the shop buidling on his property in High Town.

Their mission was to extract wounded South Vietnamese soldiers from a hot zone in October 1972. But the crew in the Bell UH-1 Iroquois “Huey” helicopter – including 18-year-old door gunner John Hulbert – couldn’t complete the assignment.

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