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R. Lee Ermey, ‘Full Metal Jacket’ drill sergeant, dies
Washington Times ^ | April 15, 2018 | Victor Morton

Posted on 04/15/2018 5:25:23 PM PDT by libstripper

The Marine who became immortalized by playing a brutal drill sergeant in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” has died.

“It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform you all that R. Lee Ermey (“The Gunny”) passed away this morning from complications of pneumonia,” his manager Bill Rogers said in a statement posted to Mr. Ermey’s official Twitter account.

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To: libstripper

Man that sucks, he might have just missed seeing the Swamp get drained. Sad!


41 posted on 04/15/2018 8:08:40 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Refreshing? Trump makes me feel like I just freebased a York Peppermint Pattie!)
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To: libstripper

“He isn’t really gone at all
He’s merely been recalled

“He’s taken up the watch once more
Chosen to stand at Heaven’s door

“For it is Marines you must recall,
That before Heaven’s Gates stand tall

“One he was branded with U.S.M.C.,
Its Life and for ever a Marine he will be

“Off the join the guard he’s went,
I’m sure that’s where he was sent.

“Before those doors he now awaits,
To greet us when we come to those gates.


42 posted on 04/15/2018 8:09:39 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: LS

The scene where he made DeNardo(?- i can’t remember his name right now) laugh right before fulfilling his last request i’ll always remember.

I can’t disagree that was one helluva movie. Semper Fi gunny, we’ll always remember you.

~W


43 posted on 04/15/2018 8:14:14 PM PDT by wheresmyusa (A knight without armor in a savage land...)
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To: libstripper; All

Thanks for posting. Great Guy.

I always loved him in this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsVCHE7ayPE


44 posted on 04/15/2018 8:29:19 PM PDT by The Bat Lady (Drain the Swamp no matter what letter is after the name, D or R doesn't matter!)
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To: plain talk

I would guess he actually voted against McCain.


45 posted on 04/15/2018 9:00:05 PM PDT by Romans Nine
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To: libstripper

R.I.P., deepest respects.


46 posted on 04/15/2018 9:27:34 PM PDT by Enterprise
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To: LS
Best role, IMHO was not in “Full Metal Jacket” but was in “The Siege of Firebase Gloria,” the best Vietnam war movie ever made.

Agree! Great movie that I just saw again recently.
47 posted on 04/15/2018 9:50:09 PM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Enterprise

If you’ve ever been to basic training in the military during the 60s and 70s. You remember your DI. The gunny standing in front of new recruits in “Full Metal Jacket” was amazing. His performance in Fire Base Gloria was great. A truest great patriot who went in harms way. RIP SARGE. You’ll be missed.


48 posted on 04/15/2018 9:52:47 PM PDT by Equine1952 (1st Class Gunners Mate Gibson. Snap it up maggots. 01/10/1971.)
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To: libstripper; All

Attention on Deck

Company: Hand Salute

Multi Gun Salute

SEMPER FI

May God Rest Your Soul Gunny

Former US Marine here offering prayers for the Family!!!


49 posted on 04/15/2018 10:11:52 PM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: libstripper

When I told my wife and friends that FMJ was the most accurate depiction of Parris Island I’d ever seen, they refused to believe me. R. Lee Ermey seemed a little old to be a Senior Drill Instructor but he carried it off so well that it was a minor distraction. Loved “Mail Call”...


50 posted on 04/15/2018 10:21:06 PM PDT by clive bitterman
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To: clive bitterman

His commercial as a sympathetic doctor was so off the charts it scared me. Then he threw the box of Kleenex. That’s the guy in the kakis that I knew. A real patriot can’t beat that.


51 posted on 04/15/2018 10:36:11 PM PDT by Equine1952 (We lose our soldiers way too fast. Some gave all, all gave some.)
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To: libstripper; plain talk; Beagle8U; Romans Nine; Archie Bunker on steroids
Re his voting for Obama ---

            He described himself politically as an independent and said he voted for then-Sen. Barack Obama in 2008, but his career largely ended in the early-10s after he was critical of him at a Toys for Tots event in 2010.

            "We should all rise up, and we should stop this administration from what they’re doing because they’re destroying this country. They’re driving us into bankruptcy so that they can impose socialism on us, and that’s exactly what they’re doing, and I’m sick and damn tired of it and I know you are too," he said at the event for the Marine Corps Reserve’s charity.

            He apologized later for his "misguided and emotionally biased" comments but he lost some commercial sponsors and later told Fox News he was largely blackballed in Hollywood subsequently.

            "Do you realize I have not done a movie in five to six years? Why? Because I was totally blackballed by the liberals in Hollywood," he said in 2016. "That’s why I live up in the desert on a dirt road - I don’t have to put up with their crap."

52 posted on 04/16/2018 12:13:44 AM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: dfwgator

Maybe the last Hollywood Patriot.
**************************************
You’re forgetting Jon Voight, Clint Eastwood, James Woods and many others.

I also am sad that Gunny Ermey is gone.


53 posted on 04/16/2018 3:16:30 AM PDT by octex
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To: libstripper

Dad, who fought in the Guadalcanal/Bougainville Campaign in the Marines absolutely HATED listening to R. Lee Ermey…not because his drill instructor act was bad…but because it was RIGHT ONE THE MONEY.

It gave him 1942 Parris Island chills to hear him.
RIP Gunney


54 posted on 04/16/2018 4:50:27 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: libstripper

When I was 18 a boyfriend took me to see FMJ on a date. I enjoyed the movie but did not marry the guy. RIP R.Lee.


55 posted on 04/16/2018 5:01:13 AM PDT by stellaluna
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To: libstripper

Just an FYI; Ronald Lee Ermey (March 24, 1944 – April 15, 2018) was a former United States Marine Corps Staff Sergeant (1961–1972) and was made a post career honorary Gunnery Sergeant; during his tenure in the U.S. Marine Corps he served as a drill instructor and Marine Wing Support Group 17 Marine.

GySgt Garvin (Ret)


56 posted on 04/16/2018 7:00:17 AM PDT by Garvin (Always remember folks, kill a commie for mommy ~ Semper Fi, Mac!)
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To: libstripper

Yes the Grim Reaper using pneumonia and its complications can take down anyone, no matter their overall physical condition. I’m 70.


57 posted on 04/16/2018 7:46:11 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

It’s a scary story for those of us who are 70 and north thereof. If I took a random sample of 20 year old male college students, I bet Ermey could have out performed at least half of them in physical fitness tests; nevertheless he dropped before I did, and I’m older. Disturbing.


58 posted on 04/16/2018 9:13:13 AM PDT by libstripper
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