Video Clips from "Full Metal Jacket"

USMC Cadences

This is My Rifle, this is My Gun, ones for Fighting and one for Fun

The Jelly Doughnut

The Virgin Mary Scene

Happy Birthday Jesus

What Side Was That!?

Rifle Range - a Marine cannot die without Permission

"Gomer Pyle"

The Blanket Party

Animal Mother

Sniper

Animal Mother "Poontang"

The Oldies but Goodies 1960s 70s M-14 Basic Drill Instructor MCRD Parris Island & San Diego

R. Lee Ermey "Coors Light Beer Commercial"

About "Ronald Lee Ermey" The Gunny who served in the US Marine Corps, April 1961 to October 1971, retired as a Staff Sergeant on a medical disability.   Later R. Lee Ermey was bestowed the honorary rank of Gunnery Sergeant by the Marine Corps, after he served 14 months in Vietnam and later did 2 tours in Okinawa, Japan.   After injuries forced him to retire from the Corps, he moved to the Philippines, enrolling in the University of Manila, where he studied Criminology and Drama.

R. Lee Ermey was not intended to be in Full Metal Jacket (1987).  He was hired as a technical advisor for the actor who was to play the drill instructor, but he did such a good job at it that Ermey himself was hired for the part.

SSgt. Ermey served in the U.S. Marine Corps from April 1961 to October 1971 under the service number 195 60 39. Was retired as a Staff Sergeant on a medical disability.