Lock N' Load with R. Lee Ermey: Full Melon Jacket

Machine gun teaches fruit a lesson it won't soon forget

By Peter Gilstrap Nov 10, 2009 9:28 PMTags

Make no mistake. Lock N' Load host R. Lee Ermey (you know, the drill sargeant in Full Metal Jacket who got fragged by Vincent D'Onofrio) loves him some guns.

Now the aging ex-marine—who sounds like he could use a squirt of Polydent—has his own show to prove it, gushing on about automatic weapons and their part in military history.

Here, the leatherneck recreates the famous WWII battle where our boys gave a taste of high-caliber hell to a batillion of savage, far-eastern watermelons.