LOCK 'N LOAD

OK, those of you that don't know R. Lee "Gunny" Ermey, I'll run down a few credits for you. He is probably best known for Full Metal Jacket but we've also enjoyed him in Saving Silverman, Switchback, Dead Man Walking, Seven, and Leaving Las Vegas. But he has done so much more. He was a Marine drill instructor and a Vietnam vet who started out acting about 25 years ago when he was offered the role in Full Metal Jacket. He now has a History Channel show called Mail Call and Lock 'n Load. Those of you that know Andrew know what a history buff he is, particularly military history, so Gunny is a favorite in our house! He's also the spokesperson for Glock and we own three (this tidbit is Andrew's contribution to the blog)!

Anyway, he was at the Navy Base last weekend so we thought we'd make it a family outing! We had to wait in line for about an hour. Needless-to-say, this was the day we forgot to load the stroller so we had to hold M&M the entire time, ugh!

Here is Andrew and Michael in line waiting to see Gunny. Now as I've mentioned before, twins are attention magnets. This time it attracted Gunny's crew...sound man and camera man. They asked if they could do an interview and get some video of M&M. So who knows where that will end up! We did say "You're watching Gunny TV.com" into the camera. So don't know if this will be for the History channel or Gunny's website. But it was fun and the sound guy just loved M&M, especially Michael who kept grabbing at the sound boom.

The sound guy was nice enough to take some pictures when we were talking with Gunny. M&M just kept satring at him. And Gunny seemed taken with Michael. The last picture is the best...Gunny laughing at Michael grabbing the sound boom! Fun experience and it's so great for Gunny to visit the troops (he said he makes 4 trip a year to the Middle East) most of whom are single and here without family.

His new show Lock n' Load is on the History Channel and he just started working on Toy Story 3. He has been the voice of "Army Sarge" for all the Toy Story movies.