Who is William Adama

William Adama: background information 

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William Adama was born on the Caprica colony, the son of Joseph Adama, a civil liberties lawyer and Evelyn Adama, an accountant.

Adama was a gifted Viper pilot in the Colonial Fleet during the later stages of the first Cylon War. On account of his gravelly voice, his aviator call sign was "Husker".

Adama was aboard the Battlestar Galactica during the last week of the war, when a Cylon boarding party attempted to kill the crew by depressurizing the ship. Adama later recalled that "two thousand men bought the farm."

After the war ended, Adama married his first wife, Carolanne, by whom he fathered two sons, Zak and Lee.

Adama's military career floundered after the war. Like many servicemen after the end of a conflict, he was discharged. He found himself serving on a commercial freighter on the Caprica-Tauron run, where he met a fellow former Viper pilot, Saul Tigh. The pair forged a lasting friendship, and Adama arguably saved Tigh from his most self-destructive impulses.

More information will be revealed about Bill Adama's fighter pilot days in November 2007, with the Battlestar Galactica special episode "Razor."