Veteran honored after ‘Dustoff’ crews receive Congressional Gold Medal
ABERDEEN, Miss. (WCBI) – Robert W. Barrett lives a relatively quiet life in Aberdeen these days. But that wasn’t the case about 60 years ago. Barrett joined the Army in 1965 after graduating from Mississippi State University. He became a helicopter pilot, and from 1967 to 1968, he was assigned to the 45th Medical Company known as “Dustoff,” stationed in…