[Old Teufel Hunden]

"I have always wondered how much he was involved in writing his lines for the movie."

As a former drill instructor, I can tell you that the lines were basically written for him from all the other drill instructors that went before. We just all pretty much copied what we saw from previous drill instructors. I did not grow up in the era where you could talk about 'niggers, kikes, wops or greasers' but the rest of it is pretty standard fare. I personally liked calling them whale shit because that was the lowest thing in the ocean.

[ethom]

legend has it that Stanley Kubrick started with a script shooting on Full Metal Jacket, then gunny was so good in his scenes at basic training that they just let him ad lib with the cameras rolling...