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Barry Allen Sadler (November 1, 1940 – November 5, 1989) was an American military veteran, author, actor, and singer-songwriter. Sadler served as a Green Beret combat medic with the rank of Staff Sergeant of the United States Army during the Vietnam War. Most of his work has a military theme, and he credited himself as SSG Barry Sadler, although his music credits read SSgt Barry Sadler.
Sadler was born in Carlsbad, New Mexico, the second son of John Sadler and Bebe Littlefield of Phoenix, Arizona. According to Sadler's autobiography, I'm A Lucky One, his father developed a successful plumbing and electrical business in Carlsbad and owned several farms in the area. He describes his mother as managing restaurants and bars, and, at times, games in casinos.
The family relocated often. His parents divorced when Sadler was very young, and his father died not long after of a rare form of nervous system cancer at the age of 36. His mother took her sons with her as she worked at temporary jobs in Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas.
Sadler dropped out of high school during the tenth grade in Leadville, Colorado. After a year of hitch-hiking across the country, he enlisted at age 17 in the U.S. Air Force. He was trained as a radar technician and was stationed in Japan. Following his discharge, Sadler enlisted with the Army, seeking more excitement.
After completing airborne training, Sadler volunteered for the U.S. Army Special Forces and passed the difficult selection tests. Following lengthy training as a combat medic at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, he was sent to South Vietnam. During May 1965, while on a combat patrol in the Central Highlands southeast of Pleiku, he was severely wounded in the knee by a feces-covered punji stick. He was already taking an antibiotic for dysentery, and no ill effects from the punji stick were seen. He used a cotton swab and an adhesive bandage, then finished the patrol. However, he developed a serious infection in his leg, and was flown to Walter Reed Hospital in the United States. Sadler's doctors were forced to surgically enlarge the wound to drain it and to administer penicillin. While he was recuperating, he heard Senator Robert F. Kennedy dedicate the new JFK Center for Special Warfare at Fort Bragg. Sadler promised himself that if he successfully recovered from the infection, he would give away the rights to a song he was then helping to write, "The Ballad of the Green Berets." He recovered completely and kept his promise.
According to the ribbons and badges worn by Sadler in a televised performance of "The Ballad of the Green Berets," he received the following awards for his military service: Purple Heart Medal, Army Good Conduct Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Air Force Longevity Service Award, Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, and the South Vietnamese Parachutist Badge.
The ribbons shown in Sadler's television performance mentioned above did not represent all of Sadler's awards. Sadler was also entitled to the National Defense Service Medal and the Vietnam Campaign Medal. He had the option of replacing the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with the Vietnam Service Medal.
Sadler was unable to score another major success, though his "The A-Team " was a Top 30 Billboard chart single during 1966. Sadler began writing novels. He chose to write about soldiers. His popular Casca series concerns the title character, Casca Rufio Longinius (a sort of combination of Saint Longinus and The Wandering Jew), the Roman soldier who stabbed Christ during the crucifixion, and is thus cursed to remain a soldier until the Second Coming. The novels feature Casca to the 20th century. Sadler himself wrote only the first few books, the remainder being assigned by the publishers to uncredited writers though issued with his name. Subsequent books have been written by different authors.
Sadler relocated to Guatemala City during the mid 1980s and frequented a restaurant named La Europa (also known as Freddie's Bar, after the German proprietor). He continued to publish the Casca books (mostly using various ghostwriters), produced a self-defense video (which was never released) and even helped with vaccination programs in rural villages.
On September 7, 1988 in Guatemala City, Sadler was shot in the head at night in a taxicab by someone pursuing a robbery attempt. He was airlifted back to the United States by friends from the magazine Soldier Of Fortune, where he was hospitalized and remained in a coma for several months. He was released eventually, but with significant brain damage. When released from the hospital during January 1989, he was reported missing by his family and was eventually found. He died on November 5, 1989 at his mother's home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, of complications from his gunshot injury. He was survived by his wife, Lavona Sadler, daughter Brooke Sadler, and sons Thor Sadler and Baron Sadler.
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Casca series
Barry Sadler - The Eternal Mercenary (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - God Of Death (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The War Lord (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - Panzer Soldier (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Barbarian (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Persian (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Damned (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - Soldier Of Fortune (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Sentinel (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Conquistador (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Legionnaire (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The African Mercenary (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Assassin (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Phoenix (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Pirate (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - Desert Mercenary (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Warrior (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Cursed (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Samurai (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - Soldier Of Gideon (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Trench Soldier (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Mongol (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Liberator (read by Gene Engene)
Barry Sadler - The Defiant (read by Gene Engene)
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Casca series
http://rapidgator.net/file/1e89871d7f64c8a26256bca24081f7be/The_Eternal_Mercenary.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/bf147763453af27411df40f5e198e093/God_Of_Death.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/108a8580d01e9fcce771bd0e6e7876ce/The_War_Lord.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/67a8a4f3d299335bc267f45c1de08679/Panzer_Soldier.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/17bd0ea2e65d14f807e1a30f253761b0/The_Barbarian.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a4e7fcb7448b662cc3d90ba0e7da63a2/The_Persian.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/a7ec5b6fa5b776db879c94a0e79a4c24/The_Damned.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/9053f5b1d8e7ee4a8ec7aed945ad8e54/Soldier_Of_Fortune.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5406c8d0efe746f75821a05a4e005e1f/The_Sentinel.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/0315217f8c23f6de36da1d4ecfb73e88/The_Conquistador.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4c65374bd13d5d1a6d8728c70cfbfb66/The_Legionnaire.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/832b23437ab2728421ad3e98b64127ad/The_African_Mercenary.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b038dcad5780001692bf3c450ac37527/The_Assassin.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/54156688db940d276388692fc280d9c0/The_Phoenix.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/e268ab4fa73e1fbb4a5ba65d06f1ed8c/The_Pirate.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/5e2beb31c9531a3b0a3f56ca0c6675cd/Desert_Mercenary.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7bd0848823c5ab4f0db146466e7c9998/The_Warrior.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/35b8dad1e50ac3f7d53ee12e507ebfb8/The_Cursed.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/7416b1e5cd9c9f0df4a6cd2ac0074ccf/The_Samurai.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/4f872e7cf7e4f18c39ad3d2876aa910f/Soldier_Of_Gideon.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/34385b8e077b98230d765ab36967bbaa/The_Trench_Soldier.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/2d7c6133d33486e5d30e9e541d30429a/The_Mongol.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/63925ae7129f13b1ecbd52fd8eb33551/The_Liberator.rar.html
http://rapidgator.net/file/b933616902e471df8f45602201ad71c1/The_Defiant.rar.html |
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