This is a Gunnie:
This is a Gunny:
Gunnies:
Gunny:
Though sometimes you can be both:
(Not to take anything away from Ermey, but he did leave the Marine Corps a Staff Sergeant. Had to have been a badass Staff Sgt to be a Drill Instructor and combat veteran... He was made an official honorary Gunnery Sergeant by the Marine Corps a bit after his retirement. If that's good enough for the USMC it's good enough for me.)
Main thing? ALL of them can shoot!!! :-)
ReplyDeleteMust wear reading glasses more often. I thought that said "combat vegetarian" at first, and I sure I heard the hoofbeats of the four horsemen of the apocalypse approaching.
ReplyDeleteIt's no secret, he talked about the honorary "gunnie" tag on Mail Call. It's a great name for a great man.
ReplyDelete'Course your first "Gunny" is actually a Master Gunnery Sergeant, usually referred to/addressed as ('long as you're senior or contemporary to) "Master Guns" in my experience.
ReplyDeleteLee Ermey's a good example of a Drill Instructor but he certainly isn't the only "badass Staff Sergeant"; my senior Drill Instructor was a SSgt, three-tour (Nam, sorry for the presumption) Grunt (Infantry) who was definitely a BADASS. My other DI's were both Sergeants.
Gotta wonder about Lee Ermey's use of the "cup 'n saucer" handgun technique ... great American though...