Even he wasn't immune to the evil fury of the Hollywood Obolaites who blackballed him after 2010 when he told the absolute truth about Obola and what he was doing to the US. Please read the article to see this.
On a personal note, it really gets to me because I'm a bit north of 75, am in nowhere the great shape Ermey was , and have still managed to outlive him. Thee Grim Reaper strikes when he will.
Prayers up for a great patriot's soul.
RIP Gunny.
With deep respects from an LST Sailor 63 to 67
RIP Gunny!! S.F.!
Actually Ermey said he voted for Obama in 2008
One of the funniest patriots ever. One great marine.
“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. ...
“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.”
God Bless Gunny. I love this man. May he be surrounded by pure Love, Comfort, and Joy in the Good Lord’s arms, In Jesus Name, Amen.
Man that sucks, he might have just missed seeing the Swamp get drained. Sad!
“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.
Thanks for posting. Great Guy.
I always loved him in this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsVCHE7ayPE
R.I.P., deepest respects.
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!!!
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”...
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
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.
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)
Yes the Grim Reaper using pneumonia and its complications can take down anyone, no matter their overall physical condition. I’m 70.