LTC Max Kent Hurlbut
April 27, 1939 - April 27, 1939
Birth: Apr. 27, 1939 Worcester Worcester County Massachusetts, USA Death: unknown Army (Private to Lieutenant Colonel) & 35-year police officer. Self-described in "Vagabond Policeman" (2013): "The crow collecting shiny things---The bits & pieces that color life." Los Angeles Police Department: Lieutenant's Badge No. 1, retired with him. Assigned Hollywood Patrol & Vice, Watts Riot (Aug. 1965), Team Leader of first SWAT teams, "Freeway Fliers"/High-speed Interceptors, Orders Writer for Chief WILLIAM H. PARKER, Captain of L.A. Police Motorcycle Drill Team (Led Torchbearer into Coliseum, 1984 Olympics), awarded Detective Gold Card. CA P.I. license AA-9999. Resolutions of L.A. City, County, & State Senate. Chief of Police, Kodiak & tiny Whittier, Alaska. Policed King Cove (Aleutians Borough East) & implemented Aleut Village Police on St. George, Pribilof Islands, Bering Sea, at height of Winter storm season. Fireman & EMT. Driver of last Rail-Ambulance on continent. City Marshal of Tombstone, Arizona. Army of U.S.: Military Police, Intelligence, & Special Forces branches. Retired as 18A (Special Operations Ofc.). Test-jumped experimental PX1-Mark V parachute with first anti-inversion net, British RAF. Awarded gold "Crown & Eagle" Medal of Honor by Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, U.S. Section. Jump-qualified in 13 armies. Advisor, Royal Thai Border Patrol Police. Decorated by King as "Commander of Most Exalted Order of White Elephant." Gold Schutzenschnur ("shooting cord") for perfect score (rifle, pistol, machine gun) in German Army. Graduate of Army Command & General Staff College, National Defense University, and Michigan State University (Master's). Married SU HUEIH-HUEIH ("Way-Way"), the Colonel's daughter, while Advisor to ROC Special Warfare Command, Taiwan. She is a teacher & classical Chinese dancer. Awarded keys to cities of Taipei, Tainan, & Kaohsiung. Member, Explorers & Adventurers' Clubs. President, S. CA Safari Club. Two First Place Awards (Africa). CA State Governor of Colonial Wars, four-term President of Sons of Revolution in CA, and others. Great-7th grandson of THOMAS HURLBUT, soldier in the Pequot War of 1637 & companion of Mohegan Sachem UNCAS. Great-4th maternal grandfather, Capt. ISAAC LOKER, led a Troop of Horse to the Lexington/Concord Alarm of 1775 from Sudbury, Massachusetts. "Not all who wander are lost." J.R.R. TOLKIEN, "Lord of the Rings" (1954). We pass in sorrow, but not in despair.....
Birth: Apr. 27, 1939 Worcester Worcester County Massachusetts, USA Death: unknown Army (Private to Lieutenant Colonel) & 35-year police officer. Self-described in "Vagabond Policeman" (2013): "The crow collecting shiny things---The bits... View Obituary & Service Information