Semper Fi, Gunny: R. Lee Ermey, ‘Full Metal Jacket’ Drill Instructor, Dies

Victor Morton at the Washington Times offers a piece on the passing of R. Lee Ermey.

The Marine who became immortalized by playing a brutal drill instructor in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” has died.

R. Lee Ermey was 74.

“It is with deep sadness that I regret to inform you all that R. Lee Ermey (“The Gunny”) passed away this morning from complications of pneumonia,” his manager Bill Rogin said in a statement posted to Mr. Ermey’s official Twitter account.

“He will be greatly missed by all of us,” Mr. Rogin wrote. “Semper Fi, Gunny. Godspeed.”

You can read the rest of the piece via the below link:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/apr/15/r-lee-ermey-full-metal-jacket-drill-sergeant-dies/?utm_source=Boomtrain&utm_medium=manual&utm_campaign=20180326&utm_term=newsalert&utm_content=newsalert

Note: Although not mentioned in the piece, Mr. Ermey first played a Marine drill instructor in  The Boys in Company C.