OT: RIP R. Lee Ermey

met him at a gun store (advertising for glocks)- hell of a guy.  Semper Fi and Godspeed Gunny

Enfield vs. 1903 Springfield vs M1 Garand

https://youtu.be/w16pXWL2B2k

You can see Ermey's veneration of the M1 Garand.

RIP and Semper Fi!

 

 

After Full Metal Jacket, USMC had Congress pass an act so that they could promote him in retirement.

But my all-time favorite is still:

"You had best unfuck yourself or I will unscrew your head and shit down your neck!!!!!"

Mr  Bailey "borrowing" a few hundred thousand dollars from his clients, being disbarred and living in a shithole waiting to die. Do you really honor a clown like that? Lets ask the victims for their opinions.

This is for fighting and this is for fun!

does not seem that old any more. Pneumonia has killed 3 people over 60 this year in my neighborhood. They got this bad flu virus which turned into a severe case of pneumonia. RIP Gunny!

I want that head so sanitary and squared away that the Virgin Mary herself would be proud to go in there and take a dump.

Growing up on a naval base, I watched full metal jacket when I was 12 at the marine theater on base. He was one of my inspirations for joining the marines over all other services.

I saw FMJ about 3 weeks before going to Marine bootcamp.  Scared the shit out of me.  When I became a DI as a sergeant, I plagorized a few of his lines.  I think we all did. 

 

"HELL I LIKE YOU, YOU CAN COME OVER TO MY HOUSE AND FUCK MY SISTER".

God has a hard-on for Marines, because we kill everything we see.

After leaving Iraq we were stuck in Kuwait for a few weeks. One day the Gunny came around as part of his tour he was doing. There must have been 500 Marines crammed into one of those giant tents. He comes in and calls out a couple of Marines and goes into full Gunny Hartman on them. Afterward he does a question and answer. One Marine asks the Gunny why did he kiss that man in the movie Saving Silverman? Ermey replies, “They paid me an extra 200 thousand dollars to do that, and for another 200,000 I’d kiss everyone of you sons of bitches!”

There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here you are all equally worthless.

I had a Gunny (who retired a Sergeant Major) tear me a new asshole more than a few times on the way to remaking me into a man. R. Lee Ermey was a magnificent reminder of him.

Semper Fi, Gunny.

If the Army and the Navy Ever look on Heaven's scenes They will find the streets are guarded By United States Marines. Rest in Peace, Gunny.

Damn it. A legendary actor....

I know he obviously has been in far better movies, but my first exposure to him was in Saving Silverman when he played a slightly insane, sadistic, but downright hilarious football coach.

“Two things you gotta remember boys! Number one: stay away from women! All they want from you is your main juice!”

RIP Gunny

a couple of times at Trade Shows and then at Camp Perry duruing the National Matches on the firing line, commercial row and at the PX.

I remember the Marine Corps Rifle Team Drove him down the Viale Range Road in a USMC Wrapped Humvee, and parked it on the Assembly line. Boy did they get their asses chewed out by the RSO, because the only vehicles authorized to use that road are the Shooter Shuttles and the ambulances as well as CMP Staff.

The Gunney took all the heat and sheepishly apologized for this transgression.

After the Garand Match the line in the hot August sun for people to get him to sign his autograph was 5x as long as the lines for the commemorative T-Shirts and Award Medals.He stayed until the end and made sure everyone who wanted to shake his hand got the chance.

I brought my daughters with me to a trade show he was attending back in the early '00's and he took a real liking to my youngest daughter and presented her with one of his Mail Call Challenge Coins,

She brought that same coin to the SAFS when she was 13 years old and challenged the Gunny with it. Of course she had to buy him an Iced Tea at the PX. But he remebered giving it to her and she thanked him for all the work he did for Toys For Tots. 

As I sit here reflecting on my memories of the Gunney I'm sad that America has seen the passing of a person that embodied Esprit de Corp of the U.S Marines.

Godspeed Gunny and Hold Hard. 

 

One of my acting coaches in LA who became a friend over time, Tim Colceri was originally cast as the role of the drill instruction in Full Metal Jacket with Stanley Kubrick.

Tim  had been a Marine in Vietnam, then a golf pro, then a flight attendant and then became an actor in the early 80s.

On a whim, he sent in an audition tape to Kubrick after hearing that Kubrick was preparing a new war movie.  Almost 2 years later, Kubrick's people contacted him and flew him to England for a meeting.  There he worked with Kubrick and was offered the role.  He could not believe it that the first 60 pages of the script were mostly devoted to his character. 

As he went back to LA to work before filming started, Kubrick hired an advisor named R Lee Ermey, to help with the technical points of the filiming.  Unbeknownst to Tim, R Lee was stealing his role right out from under him.

Kubrick called Tim back to the UK and gave him the news.  As a consolation, he was offered the role as the machine gunner in the helicopter.  Get some.

Tim went on to do many films, but usually only in bit parts.  Ermey made the role his own, and became a star. 

FMJ  was legendary. He also had son doozies in On Deadly Ground:

My guy in D.C. tells me that we are not dealing with a student here, we're dealing with the Professor. Any time the military has an operation that can't fail, they call this guy in to train the troops, OK? He's the kind of guy that would drink a gallon of gasoline so he could piss in your campfire! You could drop this guy off at the Arctic Circle wearing a pair of bikini underwear, without his toothbrush, and tomorrow afternoon he's going to show up at your pool side with a million dollar smile and fist full of pesos. This guy's a professional, you got me? If he reaches this rig, we're all gonna be nothing but a big goddamned hole right in the middle of Alaska. So let's go find him and kill him and get rid of the son of a bitch!

and

I want you to protect this entrance like it was your sister's cherry, Tonto!

and

Yeah, that's right! Go ahead, big boy! MAKE YOUR MOVE! Then I'm gonna shove this goddamn shotgun up your ass and blow the top of your FUCKING HEAD OFF!

 

Heard he’s from Texas. Only steers and queers come from Texas.

Also good as the TV evangelist in Fletch Lives.