It is extremely difficult to truly quantify all of the great things this man has selflessly done for, and on behalf of, our many men and women in uniform. His manager, Bill Rogin took to Facebook to share his thoughts: But all of us also know him as Sheriff Hoyt from the remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE and its prequel THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's FULL METAL JACKET. Lee Ermey has passed away at the age of 74 from complications of pneumonia.Įrmey, who died on Sunday, was best known for his role as Gny. For my generation and those to come, the Gunny secured the already-supercharged drill instructor stereotype into one of the most recognizable characters in movie history.On what has got to be one of saddest ways to start out a Monday morning, today we have the horrible news that the lovable curmudgeon R. The Gunny pointing his finger in a recruit’s face while shouting profanity, hurling insults at the recruits’ manhood and mothers and posing questions and insinuations about their sexuality indoctrinated us with the idea that coded racism, physical abuse and psychological hazing went hand in hand with becoming a man. “Full Metal Jacket” wasn’t the only reason I joined the Marine Corps, but it was a major one. Hartman had hooked us with the promise that he - this leather-faced, battle-hardened beast - could turn young, soft, irrelevant boys into the most lethal human killing machines in history. If you can endure that - endure him - then you can endure anything, the scene seems to suggest.Īnthony Swofford, a Marine Corps veteran and the acclaimed author of Jarhead, put it best for the New York Times in April 2018 following Ermey’s death: Hartman is both horrifying and mesmerizing, all at once. He is somehow both unbridled chaos and tightly wound order, his ferocity permitted to reign free within the confines of Parris Island. With his wide-brimmed hat, Hartman is like a rabid Smokey The Bear in service alphas, more interested in burning the forest down with you in it than preventing wildfires.
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