R. Lee Ermey

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	Our good friend, R. Lee Ermey, regularly sends "care" packages to soldiers and Marines in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Ermey, known as "Gunny" has used the KTG Packages website.


	Ronald Lee Ermey (born March 24, 1944) is a former U.S. Marine Corps drill instructor and later Golden Globe-nominated actor, often playing the roles of authority figures, such as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket, Mayor Tilman in the Alan Parker film Mississippi Burning and Sheriff Hoyt in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. He currently hosts Mail Call, a military history program on The History Channel, where Ermey answers military-related viewer questions. Ermey is also an official spokesman for Glock firearms, Tupperware, Hoover vacuum cleaners, and the Young Marines.


	Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: "Today... is Christmas! There will be a magic show at zero-nine-thirty! Chaplain Charlie will tell you about how the free world will conquer Communism with the aid of God and a few Marines! God has a hard-on for Marines because we kill everything we see! He plays His games, we play ours! To show our appreciation for so much power, we keep heaven packed with fresh souls! God was here before the Marine Corps! So you can give your heart to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the Corps! Do you ladies understand?"


	Gunnery Sergeant Hartman: [Hartman gives a speech to the graduating recruits] "Today, you people are no longer maggots. Today, you are Marines. You're part of a brotherhood. From now on until the day you die, wherever you are, every Marine is your brother. Most of you will go to Vietnam. Some of you will not come back. But always remember this: Marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever. And that means YOU live forever."


	If you can read this, thank a teacher, If you are reading it in English, thank a Veteran Save Water, Shower With A Marine Grunts Can Do Anything Marines Always Welcome, Relatives By Appointment Good Night Chesty, Wherever You Are Marine Sniper -- Visualize World Peace Marine Sniper -- You Can Run But You Can't Hide What Part of Marine Don't you Understand We Don't Care How You Do It In The Navy Be Safe Sleep With A Marine To Boldly Go Where A FEW GOOD MEN Have Gone Before Heros Get Remembered, Legends Live Forever When It Absolutely, Positively Must Be DESTROYED Overnight -- Call The USMC Heaven Won't Take Us and Hell Is Afraid We'll Take Over There Are Two Types of People: MARINES and Those Who Wish They Were It Ain't Braggng If YOU Can Do It We Deliver More Destruction Overnight Than Those Who Deliver Overnight Deadliest Weapon In The World -- A Marine And His Rifle If You Weren't There Then Shut Up Marines Never Die -- They Just Go To Hell And Re-Group For Those Who Fought For It, Freedom Has A Flavor The Protected Will Never Know The Impossible Is Done With The Lord's Help And A Few Good Men Nobody Ever Drowned In Sweat Marine Pilots Are Plane People With A Special Air About Them I Love The Smell Of Jet Fuel In The Morining -- Marine Aviation USMC -- Improvise, Adapt, Overcome USMC -- No Promises, No Shortcuts USMC -- America's 911 Service More Sweat In Peace, Less Blood In War USMC Is Part Of The Navy -- The Men's Department Do Draft Dodgers Have Reunions? If So What Do They Talk About? To Err Is Human, To Forgive Is Divine Neither of Which Is Marine Corps Policy Ever wonder why the Marines don't have a football team like the Army, Navy or Air Force? We're here to protect a country, not a quarterback Marine Artillery -- The Grunts 24-7, 911 Rescue Battery Women Marines -- Fewer and Prouder Every Marine Is A Rifleman One Shot, One Kill Forget Smith and Wesson -- This Property Protected By A US Marine When In Doubt Empty The Magazine Force Recon -- Penetrates Deeper, Stays Longer And Carries A Bigger Load Pain Is Only Temporary, Pride Is Forever Where In The Hell Is 29 Palms USMC -- We Do Not Promise You A Rose Garden Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body Combat Engineers -- When It Absolutely Must Be Destroyed Overnight The Marine Corps Doesn't Build Character, It Reveals It USMC Infrantry -- Taking Out The Garbage Not as Lean, Not As Mean, But Still A Marine And On The Seventh Day When GOD Rested, We Overran His Perimeter And Stole The Globe, We Stole The Eagle From The Air Force, The Anchor From The Navy, The Rope From The Army, And Have Been Protecting Our Shores Ever Since. "Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made a difference. The MARINES don't have that problem." President Ronald Reagan - 1985 The US Air Force Chief-of-Staff would never be called -- Airman The Chief-of-Naval Operations would never be called -- Sailor The Commanding General of The US Army would never be called -- Soldier BUT the Commandant of the Marine Corps would be proud to be called -- Marine United States Marine Corps Marines Pull Duty In Heaven, Who Else Would God Trust You Can Take The Marine Out Of The Corps But You Can't Take The Corps Out Of The Marine Mess With One MARINE You Mess With Them All If Everyone Could Get In It Wouldn't Be The Marine Corps When In Doubt Empty The Magazine Marines or Martyrs-- Who Do You Think Will Get The Virgins Marines Only Fear God, No Others Unless You're Dead, You're Not A Former Marine No Promises, No Short Cuts, No Retreat, No Surrender Sergeants Run The Corps But Don't Tell The Commandant We're Marines, We took Iwo Jima Baghdad ain't shit, Gen. Kelly, USMC America, Home of the Free Because of the Brave US Marines Travel agents to Allah Marine artillery brings dignity To what otherwise would just be a brawl The Marines Are Not a branch We are a Breed