
The last time Gary Hubbell said goodbye to his son, Army Staff Sgt. Darren P. Hubbell, he warned him about the danger he was taking by going back to a war zone again.
“I told him, ‘Look, counting the first few, this will be your fourth deployment. The odds are going to run out. I play the odds, the odds are not in your favor.’ And he said, ‘Dad, it’s my job,’ ” the elder Hubbell said.
Hubbell, 38, of Tifton, Ga., was killed by a roadside bomb June 20 in Baghdad. He was a 1986 high school graduate and was assigned to Fort Stewart.
A 14-year Army veteran and a senior line medic, he had also served tours in Panama and Afghanistan. He loved to play computer games,...