Captain America fights through Havre for retired medic

Allen Mullins, aka Captain America, passed through Havre Thursday while on his fight to help a retired U.S. Air Force medic.

"He needs our help in getting a healthier and safer living situation," Mullins said.

A nearly 3,000-mile benefit walk

Mullins is now walking from Pullman, Washington, to Harrisonburg, Virginia, a walk he began in July, to benefit Master Sgt. Gary Jorgens.

Jorgens is a retired Airforce medic that served for over 20 years. He led the primary military response to the largest anhydrous ammonia spill in the nation's history.

Jorgens lives in a 1950's trailer that contains black mold, Mullins said.

Mullins said the Go Fund Me Walk for a Medic is where he asks people to donate because he does not like the money to go through his hands. He does not take donations himself, instead asking for items he needs on his journey.

As he moves on, he will be staying on the side of U.S. Highway 2 in his sleeping bag. He is moving on to Malta next, then progressing toward Chicago, Illinois, on Highway 2.

People can follow his journey through his Facebook group Allen Mullins (Captain American).

Helping causes one at time

Mullins is originally from Dalton, Georgia where he grew up in an orphanage. He began walking for veterans in 2009 when he gave up his job as a house framer. He was 27 years old and left his girlfriend, along with donating his house and his land to be auctioned off to charity and started walking for his cause.

"I walk for veterans that need help, or anyone that needs help really," Mullins said.

Mullins is not a veteran himself, however he feels a need to help the veterans of the U.S. military.

"It's our job to do something," Mullins said. "I have met so many homeless vets being arrested for not having a place to sleep, eating out of dumpsters just to survive and it contradicts their whole service. We are supposed to thank them, and they are supposed to be heroes and they are getting arrested for doing things they have to just to stay alive."

Mullins said he was inspired to help military veterans when he realized that many veterans of the Vietnam War were not treated with respect.

He wants to help the forgotten veterans, he said. Although most of his walks are for veterans that needs help, Mullins does not turn people who ask away he said. If someone needed a wheelchair or a fire station needed something they cannot get, he does everything he can to help them.

The first walk Mullins did was a year-long 5000-mile trek across the US in 2009. He then walked to all 48 lower state capitols twice to protest the way the government is treating homeless veterans. The first trip took him three years to complete. By 2016 he had completed visiting the 48 lower state capitols twice.

Mullins believes he has walked enough miles to span the globe more than twice.

He started out wearing a military uniform but changed to Batman when he found out that was frowned upon because he had not served. Since then, he has been Superman and now Captain America since 2010. Mullins said he wears a costume because it is a conversation piece. People stop to get a picture of him and that gives him a chance to tell them what he is doing, he said.

Not everyone has been accepting of his costume or mission, he said. One time he was struck by a beer bottle thrown at his head and he had no recollection of the incident when he woke up in the hospital three days later. He was dehydrated and had second degree burns from being exposed to the sun.

He also said law enforcement can be problematic for him. He has been arrested over 60 times, he said. In Boise, Idaho, he was stalked by local law enforcement because they have an ordinance that prevents sleeping in city limits.

Mullins also suffered from a stroke in 2015 that has affected how well he talks, but he still feels strongly about his cause and does not plan to stop his walks, he said.