Ronald Lee Ermey (born March 24, 1944) is a former U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor and later a Golden Globe Award nominated actor.
Ermey has often playing the roles of authority figures, such as Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann in Full Metal Jacket, Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning and Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.
He has hosted two militainment programs on the History Channel: Mail Call, in which he answ...
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Ronald Lee Ermey (born March 24, 1944) is a former U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor and later a Golden Globe Award nominated actor.
Ermey has often playing the roles of authority figures, such as Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann in Full Metal Jacket, Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning and Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake.
He has hosted two militainment programs on the History Channel: Mail Call, in which he answers viewers' questions about technology and hardware; and Lock N' Load with R. Lee Ermey, which focuses specifically on the development of different types of weapons.
Born in Emporia, Kansas, Ermey enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1961, after being arrested several times as a teenager. A court judge gave him the choice of the military or jail. He later joked that the Marine Corps "put a screeching halt to my unconventional manner."
Ermey spent two years as a drill instructor at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego,...
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