R. Lee Ermey dies

[GatorJ]

Everyone’s favorite drill sergeant. From platoon.

Sad to hear – Oorah!

 

[TheDouglas78]

Don't you mean Full Metal Jacket:

 

[CGgater]

That is sad news indeed.

Semper Fi, Gunny!

 

[Swamp Queen]

Damn, J is on top of the news!

 

[Swamp Donkey]

Everyone’s favorite drill sergeant. From platoon.

Sad to hear – Oorah!

 

[NVGator]

Epic fail thread.

 

[Gatordiddy]

Don't you mean Full Metal Jacket:

And a lot of that was improvised... that guy was the R-rated version of Sgt. Carter... very talented...

 

[bradgator2]

Damn, J is on top of the news!

And named the wrong movie.

 

[bradgator2]

Everyone’s favorite drill sergeant. From platoon.

Sad to hear – Oorah!

You need to joke yourself for this disaster.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

You need to joke yourself for this disaster.

Not with your hand, J. Use my hand. Don't touch me you maggot, lean forward!

 

[GatorJ]

Don't you mean Full Metal Jacket:

Potato potahto

 

[oxrageous]

Potato potahto

You obviously didn’t see either movie.

 

[GatorJ]

You obviously didn’t see either movie.

I did. Just 20 years ago.

 

[TheDouglas78]

I did. Just 20 years ago.

you saw them in 1998? Your parents deprived you.

 

[GatorJ]

you saw them in 1998? Your parents deprived you.

Last saw those movies. Fool.

 

[TheDouglas78]

Last saw those movies. Fool.

As a dad you haven't shown your boys this movie.

 

[GatorJ]

As a dad you haven't shown your boys this movie.

I don’t think 10 and 13 are appropriate ages.

 

[Marine1]

I don’t think 10 and 13 are appropriate ages.[/QUOTE


When I was 9 years old my father (retired USMC 1stSgt and former drill instructor) took me to Parris Island to see this stuff live. His buddy was a current DI and he put on a show I’ve never forgotten.

My father was a DI in the late 1940’s after WW II. 30 years later Soldier of Fortune wrote an article that featured some of his disciplinary methods and interviewed some of the recruits my father trained. Pretty wild stuff.