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Ermey suggests that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye cartoons created by E. C. Segar.
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" Nigger " is used by soldiers of both races in jokes and as expressions of bravado (" put a nigger behind the trigger ", says the black Corporal " Eightball "), with racial differences among the men seen as secondary to their shared exposure to the dangers of combat: Gunnery Sergeant Hartman ( R. Lee Ermey ) says, " There is no racial bigotry here.
Many, including R. Lee Ermey, suggest that soldiers of World War II were so impressed with the new Jeep vehicle that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep as " small, able to move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems.
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) Has little tolerance for stupidity and sucking up ( usually done at the same time by Newt ), and can quickly slip into a drill sergeant-esque tirade that would make R. Lee Ermey proud.
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Their preferred choice of guest stars were those with unique and interesting voices, and several of their guest stars were " old grizzled men with distinctive voices " such as R. Lee Ermey, Donald Sutherland, Kirk Douglas and Lawrence Tierney.
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An alternative view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as " General Purpose " and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation.
It stars Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman, with Gwyneth Paltrow, R. Lee Ermey and Kevin Spacey in supporting roles.
He has hosted two programs on the History Channel: Mail Call, in which he answered viewers ' questions about various militaria both modern and historic ; and Lock N ' Load with R. Lee Ermey, which focused on the development of different types of weapons.
* Lock N ' Load with R. Lee Ermey, a show with a similar premise also hosted by Ermey
* Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey was awarded the Vietnam Gallantry Cross with palm.
* Parris Island is depicted most famously in Stanley Kubrick's movie Full Metal Jacket, with R. Lee Ermey as a memorable drill instructor.
On the " Rockets " episode of Lock N ' Load with R. Lee Ermey, R. Lee ( Gunny ) Ermey presents a challenge coin to 2nd Lt. Carr as a reward for being the " Top Gun " in his class with the Javelin Portable Rocket Launching System.
Titus Scroad, played by R. Lee Ermey is an eccentric movie director with a predilection for hydro-colonic therapy.
Claude is entrusted to drive with Superintendent Wilkins to pick up the new superintendent ( R. Lee Ermey ), who happens to be none other than Sheriff Warren Pike, the man who framed them 40 years earlier.
* Lock N ' Load with R. Lee Ermey
He's got to be able to sell the producer-director on his way of doing things " Ermey told of battles with Kubrick over realism, and what could be shown onscreen and be appreciated by a cinema audience.
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His demeanor as host was similar to the character " Gunnery Sergeant Hartman " portrayed by Ermey in the Stanley Kubrick film Full Metal Jacket, though this attitude was shown only towards his viewers ( e. g., insisting that his viewers return after a commercial break ) and not the military special guests.
Ermey and Jeep
When not on location, Ermey broadcasted from a set resembling a military outpost, including a tent, a Jeep, and various other pieces of military gear which changed throughout the series.
Ermey and character
* Sheriff Hoyt, a fictional character portrayed by R. Lee Ermey in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre films
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He is portrayed in the 1997 miniseries Rough Riders by actor and retired United States Marine R. Lee Ermey.
On Deadly Ground is a 1994 environmental action-adventure film, co-produced, directed by and starring Steven Seagal, and co-starring in an all-star cast, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey, Kenji Nakano, and Billy Bob Thornton in one of his early appearances.
They bring in a group of New Orleans based mercenaries led by Stone ( R. Lee Ermey ) to finish off Taft before he can stop Aegis 1 from going on-line.
The film also features Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey, and Gailard Sartain, and was written by Chris Gerolmo and directed by Alan Parker.
In addition, Gossett was advised by US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Buck Welscher and Gunnery Sergeant R. Lee Ermey.
( Foley's " steers and queers " line would be re-used by Ermey on-screen in Full Metal Jacket.
Mail Call was a television program that appeared on the History Channel and hosted by R. Lee Ermey, a retired United States Marine Corps Staff Sergeant, ( given the honorary rank of Gunnery Sergeant in May 2002 ).
During each episode, Ermey read and answered questions submitted by viewers regarding weapons and equipment used by all branches of the U. S. military now or in the past, as well as by other armed forces in history.
" voiced by Golden Globe-nominee R. Lee Ermey.
* Ted Grant appears in Batman: The Brave and the Bold video game, voiced by R. Lee Ermey.
Willard finds himself constantly humiliated in front of his co-workers by his cruel boss, Frank Martin ( R. Lee Ermey ), a vicious man who assumed control of the company of Willard's father upon his death, and whose professional interest in Willard extends to a personal financial one.
Bowerman is played by Donald Sutherland and is given guru status, whereas Ermey had portrayed Bowerman as more of a hard-line general-type.
* Sky Marshal Sanchez ( voiced by R. Lee Ermey ) – Top military brass of the SICON Forces.
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The film featured Michael Caine as well as R. Lee Ermey and Billy Bob Thornton in minor supporting roles.
* R. Lee Ermey as Stone, the leader of the mercenary group based in New Orleans
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This previous understanding of Greek language, Seaman suggests, comes from the “ experience of Roman soldiers during the first and second Punic wars.
It had been presumed that this title was by this time purely nominal, with auxiliary troops being recruited locally, but an inscription found in a recent season of excavations suggests that native Gauls were still to be found in the regiment and that they liked to distinguish themselves from British soldiers.
As dozens of Bolivian soldiers surround the area, Butch suggests the duo's next destination should be Australia.
This suggests that the Hwarang were not originally military in character, as the Wonhwa were not soldiers.
In the case of British soldiers of the 1740s, contemporary artwork suggests that they cut their hair short, which was not the case.
This suggests that a trireme could probably carry a maximum of 40 – 45 soldiers — triremes seem to have been easily destabilised by extra weight.
To the unit of soldiers, according to the hagiographic narrative, was assigned the name numerus Marmaritarum or " Unit of the Marmaritae ", which suggests an otherwise-unidentified " Marmaritae " ( perhaps the same as the Marmaricae Berber tribe of Cyrenaica ).
* When the Sheriff of Nottingham imposes a 21st century tax which the peasants can't pay, he decides that Robin Hood needs to be got rid of, and one of Guy of Gisbourne's soldiers suggests an arrow amnesty to disarm Robin Hood.
As the name suggests, in comparison with conventional operations the armed forces involved operate at a greatly reduced tempo, with fewer soldiers, a reduced range of tactical equipment and limited scope to operate in a military manner.
Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman, in his book On Killing, suggests that military training artificially creates depersonalization in soldiers, suppressing empathy and making it easier for them to kill other human beings.
To the unit of soldiers, according to the hagiographic narrative, was assigned the name numerus Marmaritarum or " Unit of the Marmaritae ", which suggests an otherwise-unidentified " Marmaritae " ( perhaps the same as the Marmaricae Berber tribe of Cyrenaica ).
No source provides exact numbers for the Greek army, although Justin suggests that the Greeks were " far superior in number of soldiers "; the modern view is that the Greek numbers were approximately equal to those of the Macedonians.
Although official claims were that about 1, 800 AL soldiers fought there, modern research suggests about 500.
Keeping in mind that the original number of the expedition was about a hundred, not all soldiers, this suggests that at that moment the expedition was close to destruction.
All this suggests that the Marines were never actually referred to as " devil dogs " by German WWI soldiers.
Other evidence suggests the horse soldiers ran out of the will to fight and yielded to the flight instinct, with many men simply running, even abandoning loaded rifles.
A comparison of corps incomes in suggests that Lower Openshaw had a large number of soldiers with little money when it opened in 1884.
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