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Related: About this forumFull Metal Jacket Gunnery Sergeant Hartman Introduction Warner Bros. Rewind
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This movie more than any other that I have ever seen resembles actual Marine Corps Boot Camp.
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Full Metal Jacket Gunnery Sergeant Hartman Introduction Warner Bros. Rewind (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
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OP
I remember as a 20-year-old watching that scene at the Regent Theater in Springfield, Ohio.
Xavier Breath
Monday
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Shellback Squid
(10,181 posts)1. R.L.Ermey was an independant and voted for Obama, he also liked Ted Cruz
hell of a voice and a face like granite
Historic NY
(40,159 posts)2. R Lee Emery was a real Drill Sgt.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Lee_Ermey]
I have a friend who is a retired Command Sgt Major., he's pretty serene compare to R Lee.
I have a friend who is a retired Command Sgt Major., he's pretty serene compare to R Lee.
rampartd
(5,241 posts)3. that movie is the best depiction of actual boot camp i've seen
i really did like 12 weeks of that. long ago.
Xavier Breath
(6,694 posts)4. I remember as a 20-year-old watching that scene at the Regent Theater in Springfield, Ohio.
And being both horrified and laughing like a loon