Sentences with phrase «gunnery sgt.»
Mary Gallagher, photographed at her home in October 2007, the year after her husband, Marine Gunnery Sgt. James Gallagher, took his own life.
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Fletcher is a brute, a bully and a born leader; comparisons have been made to R. Lee Ermey's Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in «Full Metal Jacket,» but another cinematic predecessor that springs to mind is Robert Duvall's Lt. Col. «Bull» Meechum in «The Great Santini» — a father - figure who cares less about the condition of his charges as they are than he cares about what they could be.
Like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Full Metal Jacket or Daniel Plainview in There will be Blood, Fletcher is cruel and psychotic but there's a solid reasoning behind his troubled ways.
Oddly, there is little dialogue in much of the first half — other than the barks and barbs of Gunnery Sgt. Hartman, viciously and accurately portrayed by Lee Ermey, a real - life leatherneck who spent three years in Vietnam.
R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard - nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's «Full Metal Jacket,» has died.