Sadler, ‘Green Berets’ Composer, Still in Coma

Barry Sadler, who wrote and recorded the Vietnam-era song “The Ballad of the Green Berets,” remains in a coma and in critical condition but appears to be improving, his agent said Thursday.

“He is improving every day,” literary agent Bob Robison said. “They are not saying if he will come out of the coma, they are saying when. The doctors feel he will come out of it fairly soon.”

Sadler, a former member of the elite Special Forces, was shot in the head two weeks ago as he returned to his home just outside Guatemala City. The circumstances of the shooting are unclear.