He was captured by the Cuban-backed opposition after only three days in action, tried and executed. Through the ad, Gearhart signed up last February with pro-Western forces fighting in Angola's civil war. It was his Colorado-based magazine that ran an advertisement for Daniel Gearhart, a Vietnam veteran from Kensington, Md., who was looking for employment as a mercenary. Then he saw the marketing potential in his exploits and started calling himself a "professional adventurer." Now Brown is making a small fortune telling others how to be one, too.įor the past 18 months, the 44-year-old publisher and editor of the quarterly Soldier of Fortune, "the fighting man's factual magazine," has become the chief spokesman and source of information for Americas mercenaries. Brown was one of those guys who just drifted - from soldiering to logging and mining, selling weapons to teaching judo, construction work to guarding armored cars.
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