Not a sarge, not drill sergeant, not a “Gunny”!*
Staff Sergeant USMC: Yes; sergeants USMC are not referred to as...”sarge”!!!!!
Drill Instructor (DI) USMC: Yes
“Honorary” Gunnery Sergeant USMC: Yes*
*For example...
Ermey was given, some time after his service as a S/Sgt in the USMC, and after his having established himself as an “actor,” an honorary gunnery sergeant “promotion” by a CMC of the Corps.
“This serves to remind me that Benjamin Franklin was the recipient of one or more “honorary” doctorates. Honorary doctorates are not “earned” degrees, nor conferred on the basis of work done or academic achievements met, etc..
I have read, that Franklin thereafter went by… “Doctor Franklin.” Some say he even insisted that members of Congress address him as such. Whether or not anyone ever took him seriously and complied, I don’t know. Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors), and others, BTW, have also been promoted to honorary Marine Corps ranks, but of course, Nabors was best known anyway as a comic.
Just MY Opinions...
Ref
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/ribbon-creek-the-aftermath-boot-camp-1956-and-after/
Thanks for the 411, now, if you’ll stop sniffling and pick up that box of tissue and POLICE THE AREA, MAGGOT!!!!