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Soldier of Fortune magazine was founded in 1975, by Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve, (Ret.) Robert K. Brown, who served with Special Forces in Vietnam. [4] After retiring from active duty, Brown began publishing a “circular”, magazine-type publication with few pages which contained information on mercenary employment in Oman, which had recently undergone a coup and was battling a ...
Born in Monroe, Michigan, he graduated from the University of Colorado.On September 22, 1999, Las Vegas, Nevada Mayor Oscar Goodman issued a proclamation declaring that day to be "Soldier of Fortune Day" and "Lt. Col. Robert K. Brown Day" in honor of Soldier of Fortune magazine, its 20th annual convention in Las Vegas, and its founder and publisher."
Raven is the creator of Soldier of Fortune, a military first-person shooter series based in the magazine of the same name. The first game, Soldier of Fortune (2000) introduced GHOUL, an in-house physics engine designed by Raven that helped the game's realistic graphic depictions of firearms dismembering the human body.
Soldier of Fortune, a 2000 first-person shooter game created by Raven Software Soldier of Fortune II: Double Helix, 2002 sequel; Soldier of Fortune: Payback, 2007 sequel; The Chaos Engine, a 1993 action game, sold as Soldiers of Fortune in the United States; Soldier of Fortune, a Commodore 64 game; Soldier of Fortune, a ZX Spectrum game
Michael Dick Echanis (November 16, 1950 – September 8, 1978) was an American enlisted soldier and self-styled "soldier of fortune".In 1970, he served briefly in "C" Company, 75th Ranger Regiment Infantry in Vietnam. [1]
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The Secret Man: An American Warrior's Uncensored Story is a memoir by martial artist Frank Dux, published in 1996 by ReganBooks.In the book, Dux asserts he was recruited by Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director William J. Casey in a public toilet to work on covert missions, including destroying a fuel depot in Nicaragua and a chemical weapons plant in Iraq.
Soldier of Fortune is a first-person shooter video game developed by Raven Software and published by Activision in 2000 for Microsoft Windows. It was later released for the PlayStation 2 (as Soldier of Fortune: Gold Edition ), as well as the Dreamcast , while Loki Software also made a port for Linux .