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You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.
R. Lee Ermey
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R. Lee Ermey
Age: 74 †
Born: 1944
Born: March 24
Died: 2018
Died: April 15
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I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.
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Kubrick ate it up. He loved it. He just let me go crazy.
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I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
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I play well with everybody.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
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I'm never, like I say, I'm never happy, I'm never satisfied, it's never good enough.
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For me, it's an honor for the military to ask me to go to Iraq, Afghanistan, or GITMO. I'm happy to go.
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It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.
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