From: Everette (194cbteng@bellsouth.net)
Date: Fri Dec 02 2005 - 07:00:22 PST
----- Original Message -----
From: <froberts@midsouth.rr.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 7:32 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Lee E
> Guys,
> Lighten up on Everette.... He's just an A R M Y vet... :) Korea at
> that.... He's just a big wooly bear.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Floyd Petri <fpetri@eastex.net>
> Date: Friday, December 2, 2005 1:00 am
> Subject: Re: [MV] Lee E
>
>> Everette normally I would not say anything at all about this.
>> However, your
>> last paragraph leads me to believe that I should ask this
>> question. Have you
>> ever been in the military and if so what branch? I don't know you
>> and I have
>> never met you or remember anyone discussing you so I really don't
>> know the
>> answer to the question.
>>
>> However, if the answer is yes then that generates another
>> question. How did
>> you ever slip threw the crack and not get torn all the way down
>> from a
>> civilian slimeball and then built up again as a mean lean fighting
>> machine?
>> Have the Political Influence stamp on your 201 file? Or maybe you
>> missed
>> being torn down and are still a slimeball???
>>
>> However, if the answer is no then all of us veterans now know and
>> owning or
>> having an interest in military vehicles does not make you a
>> veteran or makes
>> you know and understand that "slimeball" in the military is a form
>> of
>> affection between a Drill Instructor and his/her trainee. Magget
>> is another
>> one. Or whatever???
>>
>> Now I don't have my flame shields up because I am retired military
>> and I
>> like the abuse. "More PT Sergeant". So I will answer your last
>> paragraph
>> with this:
>>
>> Ever see the movie "Star Ship Troopers"? I believe I would vote
>> yes to have
>> their system. You must join the military to become a citizen and
>> get the
>> right to vote. NO MILITARY and you are not SHI-. Not a citizen and
>> you can't
>> vote. If all the veterans would get together and vote as a block
>> we could
>> solve all our problems because there are that many of us and we
>> could get
>> anything that we wanted. So how in the world can you let the
>> atheist and
>> communist and "unmentionables" allow movies that use the MF and F
>> words
>> every other word and you only are offended by "Slimeball"? There
>> definately
>> is something wrong in America or soon to be Amerika.
>>
>> That being said Hanoi Jane is a traitor and should be tried as one
>> instead
>> of being voted Woman of the Year. I could go on and on, but what
>> does that
>> have to do with military vehicles? Waiting for your answer to the
>> question.
>> Floyd
>> Retired U.S. Army
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
>> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 11:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [MV] Lee E
>>
>>
>> > Well here I go, I caused - to my regret - the start of this
>> thread, and
>> > have said very little more about it; that said, --
>> >
>> > -- I have my flame shield up against the onslaught I expect when
>> I say
>> > this ::
>> >
>> > "I enjoy the show and only problem I have is Lee's attitude that
>> he takes
>> > when he calls the audience "slimeball" and other demeaning terms
>> he uses."
>> >
>> > It is beyond my comprehension that the US Marine Corp, which is
>> a fine
>> > organization, can be proud to have him represent them. Maybe
>> what I have
>> > heard "any publicity is better than none" is true..
>> >
>> > Everette
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > From: "Darrell Ramsell" <daram@comcast.net>
>> > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> > Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 7:43 PM
>> > Subject: Re: [MV] Lee E
>> >
>> >
>> >> Glenn
>> >>
>> >> He was awarded that rank recently as an Honorary title by the
>> Marine
>> >> Corps. I believe it was for presenting a positive image of the
>> Marine and
>> >> the U.S. military in general on Mail Call. If memory serves me
>> correct.
>> >> His Gunny Sgt. rank was presented to him on a episode of Mail
> Call.
>> >>
>> >> Darrell
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Glen Closson" <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
>> >> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> >> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 8:45 AM
>> >> Subject: Re: [MV] Lee E
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>>I stand corrected. This is what I found:
>> >>>
>> >>> Ronald Lee Ermey is a retired Staff Sergeant of the United
>> States Marine
>> >>> Corps. After serving more than 10 years (1961 to 1971),
>> including a
>> >>> brief stint as a Drill Instructor at Marine Corps Recruit
>> Depot San
>> >>> Diego, India Company 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, Ermey
>> retired on a
>> >>> medical disability and took up acting. In 1987, he took the
>> role that
>> >>> would define his persona for the forseeable future, that of
>> Gunnery
>> >>> Sergeant Hartman, the foul-mouthed, abrasive drill instructor
>> in Stanley
>> >>> Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket. He has since applied that persona
>> to a
>> >>> number of projects, most recently "Mail Call," a question-and-
>> answer
>> >>> type program about antique weaponry.
>> >>>
>> >>> What I was thinking of was the rank of "Gunny." He didn't
>> receive that
>> >>> rank until after he left the Corps.
>> >>>
>> >>> Glen
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> -----Original Message-----
>> >>> From: froberts@midsouth.rr.com
>> >>> Sent: Dec 1, 2005 8:04 AM
>> >>> To: Glen Closson <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
>> >>> Cc: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>> >>> Subject: Re: [MV] Lee E
>> >>>
>> >>> This is his Bio from the history Channel. He was a Marine for
>> 11 years
>> >>> and a DI for 2 years.
>> >>>
>>
> =======================================================================
>>>> =========
>> >>> About The Host
>> >>>
>> >>> Golden Globe nominee and Boston Society of Film Critics Award
>> Winner>>> for Best Supporting Actor in director Stanley Kubrick's
>> Full Metal
>> >>> Jacket, R. Lee Ermey, after more than 25 years in the
>> business, is one
>> >>> of the most successful and talented actors in film and television
>> >>> today.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> His numerous roles in feature film include: Switchback, starring
>> >>> opposite Dennis Quaid and Danny Glover, Dead Man Walking, Seven,
>> >>> Leaving Las Vegas, Murder In The First, Life, The Frighteners and
>> >>> Sommersby, as well as his critically acclaimed role opposite
> Jared
>> >>> Leto in Prefontaine. He continues doing numerous voiceover
>> roles which
>> >>> span from The Simpsons to Toy Story("1" and "2").
>> >>>
>> >>> Ermey served 11 years active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps.
>> He rose
>> >>> to the rank of staff NCO, served two years as a drill
>> instructor and a
>> >>> tour of duty in Viet Nam. Medically retired in 1971, he used
>> his G.I.
>> >>> Bill benefits, and enrolled at the University of Manila in the
>> >>> Philippines where he studied drama. Francis Ford Coppola was
>> filming>>> Apocalypse Now in the area and cast Ermey in a featured
>> role. He has
>> >>> since gone on to star or appear in approximately sixty films.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Ermey is no stranger to prestigious television either. He has
>> starred>>> in numerous telefilms including HBO's Weapons of Mass
>> Distraction,>>> TNT's The Rough Riders, and TNT's You Know My
>> Name, starring Sam
>> >>> Elliot, as well as Showtime's The Apartment Complex.
>> >>>
>> >>> Lee starred with Elizabeth Pena in the feature On the
>> Borderline. Just
>> >>> before that, Lee was in the feature film Skipped Parts, with
>> Jennifer>>> Jason Leigh and Drew Barrymore. Recently, Lee starred
>> in Saving
>> >>> Silverman with Jason Biggs, Jack Black, Steve Zahn and Amanda
>> Peet.>>> Lee appears opposite Jeff Bridges in Scenes of the Crime
>> and Harvey
>> >>> Keitel in Taking Sides. For New Line he appeared in Run Ronnie
>> Run and
>> >>> starred in the remake of Willard with Crispin Glover. Also for
> New
>> >>> Line, he stars in the remake of Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Lee
>> is also
>> >>> hosting his own show for The History Channel, MAIL CALL, which
>> focuses>>> on military technology past, present and future. It
>> continues to be
>> >>> one of the highest rated series on The History Channel. Lee has
>> >>> recently begun filming Cheer Up with Tommy Lee Jones for
>> Revolution>>> Studios.
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> ----- Original Message -----
>> >>> From: Glen Closson <glen_closson@earthlink.net>
>> >>> Date: Thursday, December 1, 2005 9:51 am
>> >>> Subject: Re: [MV] Lee E
>> >>>
>> >>>> I didn't think Lee was a DI in real life, only in the movies.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I beleive he was granted an "Honorary DI" title.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Glen
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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