Maine Army National Guard

Like, it must have been pretty bad up there.

But they were able to get a Maine Army National Guard Blackhawk helicopter along with, you know, some...

National Guard members and park rangers, they were able to get Gorse into a stretcher and get him to Millinocket Airport.

And at that point, they got him into an ambulance and he had unfortunately passed.

They gave him sleeping bags and tried to shelter him from rainy, windy conditions in which temperatures dipped to about 20 degrees with wind chill, but had to continue descending without him.

Park Rangers deployed a rescue team and the Maine Army National Guard landed a Black Hawk helicopter on the mountain.

Gores was pronounced dead upon arriving at the Millinocket Airport.

The state's chief medical examiner is still determining the cause of death.

Today, he's running for governor.

Since 1971, Maine National Guard members have been traveling to Gagetown for training.

It's an artillery site, but it mimicked a lot of what Vietnam was like, and the federal government required you to go train there.

But over the decades, many got sick and claimed it was because of exposure to herbicides at the Canadian base.