"" R. Lee Ermey portrayed Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, the quintessential Marine Corps drill instructor and for many Marines"
recall that in this movie Ermey gets wasted by a freaked out recruit with an M-14
Why would Marines like to see this ?""
It was a really weak movie imho....""
Its not the whole movie per say that the Marines relate too.. Its the realistic portrayl of a DI that Ermery gave in that movie. It was the 2nd time he acted as a DI as he also did it in the movie "The Boys from Company C".
Ermery was once a DI during the Vietnamn era.
I once saw a documentry that descrivbed that origionally a actor was supposed to do the role of Hartman. But the director was not happy with the performance, Emery was hired as a consultant and offered to give a example on how a DI would speak and act. After he did the intial scene once.. He was offered the role of Hartman.
Heck.. I was a year and half out of Basic Military Training School of the USAF when the movie came out.. I enjoyed the basic training scenes emensly. They were especially appealing to the USAF Security Police airman.
The first half of FMJ portraying boot camp, and especially the initial scenes where the DI collectively grabs them by their short-hairs and gets their attention was very realistic in most respects. I could close my eyes and just listen and I could vividly visualize my primary DI, SSgt Conticelli because I went through recruit training in about the same timeframe.
The idea of a recruit having an M14 was more of a throwback to the 50s and before when recruits were issued a rifle that they took with them from station to station.
Our M14s had no firing pin, to prevent any "accidents" of that nature.
You said it so well I won't waste my finger muscles.
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It was the 2nd time he acted as a DI as he also did it in the movie "The Boys from Company C".
Have you checked your package?
They were especially appealing to the USAF Security Police airman.
Cops Rock! oink oink