Get With the Program!” In the field and on the screen, R. Lee Ermey takes charge.

NRO ^ | 12 nov 07 | Peter Suderman

[rellimpank]

It’s dark. The show is about to start. The lights have just gone down in the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center theater at the G.I. Film Festival — and then the stage brightens up again, only to mysteriously fade back into darkness. Uncertainty settles over the audience. What’s going on here?

“Alright people, let’s get with the program!” A voice booms out from the darkness, deep and sandpaper-scraggly, firm and fierce, it’s the sound of Authority — not so much the voice of God as of his enforcer. And lo and behold, the screen flickers and the movie begins, exactly as you’d expect from a command belted out by actor, troop advocate, and former Marine drill instructor R. Lee Ermey.

[Vaquero]

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

His advice to the country? “Don’t trust the media. Americans need to dig a little deeper. Go to the blogs.”

Hey, is R. Lee a member of FR?

If so and you read this, then I say, "Gunny, you ARE the man!"

[theDentist]

I really liked him as “Titus Scroad” in “Action”.

[kromike]

R. Lee Ermey is one of the most interesting individuals on screen. You gotta admit, he’s one of a kind.

[Wings-n-Wind]

But Gunny.....

[AU72]

“Nobody bothers me in Hollywood.”

Even panty-waists have a survival instinct.

[reagan_fanatic]

I love this guy. Just his whole attitude is refreshing.

[Eccl 10:2]

He was even good in “Mississippi Burning” as the mayor.

Gotta love the scene when Gene Hackman kicks the sheriff’s butt around the barber shop.

[AliVeritas]

Let me see your war fingers!

[tom h]

"In the field and on the screen, R. Lee Ermey takes charge."

I met Gunny Sgt Ermey at a conference once. In person, and not in uniform, he is a gracious and humble man. Like many NCOs, in the presence of senior officers and executives in industry he addresses everyone as "sir" (this embarrassed me deeply as I have no military experience but 23 years of defense industry experience).

He was representing Glock at the conference in Tampa and he signed an 8.5 x 11 photo with his image holding a Glock. He also gave me a Glock hat. I went onto the base at Camp Pendleton and that almost got me through security without a pass because the guards were so impressed.

[theDentist]

Yup. R.Lee is da Man! He’s have made a good “Quint” in Jaws too.

[theDentist]

Come to think of it, he’d have made a better SHARK.

[gjones77]

I went onto the base at Camp Pendleton and that almost got me through security without a pass because the guards were so impressed. The armed forces always remember their own, but some garner more admiration due to what they've done even when their time served is over. Us Vets always remember our own

[BallyBill]

OT: Speaking of “blogs”. Band of Bloggers is on History Channel at Noon and 6PM EST today. There was thread Friday about it and I didn’t get to see too much of it then.

[shove_it]

Right on VR!!

>>He refers to CNN as the “Communist News Network” and says that its “objective is to convince everyone we’re losing so we will. They want to lead viewers to believe we’re at the mercy of terrorists. That’s how we lost Vietnam.”<<

[Eastbound]

"Mail Call" has got to be one of the most unique programs I ever watched. And R. Lee Ermey is the most humorous person I ever watched. And probably one of the most human.

Love ya, Gunny! We need lots more like ya.

Carry on!

[Strategerist]

Heard him interviewed on Opie & Anthony.

One thing a lot of people don’t know is he WROTE all of his “Full Metal Jacket” lines himself.

[Freeport]

Not for nothing did legendary movie director Stanley Kubrick drop his originally cast actor and hire Ermey to play the toughest, meanest, and most memorable military drill instructor ever to grace the silver screen, Full Metal Jacket’s Gunnery Sgt. Hartman.

What! What...! FMG...! Hell, this guy must be a pup!

Boys of Company C man! Boys of Company C...

[VOA]

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