Gunnery Sergeant Hartman

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Gunnery Sergeant Hartman was the United States Marine Corps drill seargent in the movie Full Metal Jacket. He is most famous for yelling at, cursing at, and making fun of his recruits, and generally making their lives a living hell, in order to make them in to proper Marines.

He was shot and killed by Pvt. Gomer Pyle in a state of mental instability, who then proceeded to blow his own brains out with his M-14.

Quotes

• "WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION, NUMBNUTS?"
• "Bullshit I can't hear you. Sound off like you got a pair!"
• "WHY YOU LITTLE MAGGOT, YOU MAKE ME WANNA VOMIT!"
• "Do you suck dicks?"
• "Holy dog shit. Texas? Only steers and queers come from Texas, Private Cowboy. And you don't look much like a steer to me so that kinda narrows it down. Do you suck dicks?
• "Who said that? WHO THE FUCK JUST SAID THAT!? WHO'S THE SLIMY LITTLE COMMUNIST SHIT, TWINKLE-TOED COCKSUCKER DOWN HERE WHO JUST SIGNED HIS OWN DEATH WARRANT!?"
• "WERE YOU ABOUT TO CALL ME AN ASSHOLE?
• "5'9! I didn't know they stacked shit that high!"
• "What have we got here, a fucking comedian?"
• "Hell, I like you. You can come over to my house and fuck my sister!"
• "YOU LITTLE SCUMBAG! I GOT YOUR NAME! I GOT YOUR ASS! YOU WILL NOT LAUGH! YOU WILL NOT CRY!"
• "You got a war face! AAAAAAAAHH! That's a war face, let me see your war face!"
• "I don't like the name Lawrence, only faggots and sailors are called Lawrence. From now on you're Gomer Pyle."

Trivia

• He was played by Staff Sergeant R. Lee Ermey (ret.), an actual former U.S. Marine Corps drill sergeant originally hired as a technical advisor. R. Lee Ermey would, later, be promoted to Gunnery Sergeant, despite retiring.
  • Most of his lines and actions were actually ad-libbed by R. Lee Ermey, who was, essentially, given free will over the boot camp scenes, and came up with most of the insults. He even smacked actor Vincent D'Onofrio in real life when GySgt Hartman smacked Pvt. Pyle on film. So, in other words, R. Lee Ermey made life hell in real life for the actors.
  • He even barked an order to director Stanley Kubrick, to stand up when talking to him, causing him to instinctively stand at attention.
• Once prank-called Colonel Nathan R. Jessup,, USMC, pissing him off. He would later end-up getting Non-Judicial Punishment for disrespecting a commissioned officer, a UCMJ violation.
• He does not discriminate against his recruits, as they are all equally worthless, slimy pieces of amphibian shit.
• Has his own action figure, which has 2 versions: a "family-friendly" version, and an "Extra-Salty" R-rated version. On the TV show Mail Call, one of these action figures is called "Mini-Ermey", and is used to berate a G.I. Joe.