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Vietnam Vet, Actor and Morale Booster As part of a group of online journalists and bloggers on BlogTalkRadio, I was able to participate in a DOD "bloggers roundtable" discussion with R. Lee Ermey, the legendary Vietnam veteran and actor that played the drill sergeant in the movie Full Metal Jacket. Ermey has received multiple military decorations for his service in the Marine Corps to include the Combat Action Ribbon for his Vietnam service. A retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant or "Gunny", Ermey's morale trips to combat zones often draw huge lines of service members. This year,Ermey hopes to travel to...

SAN DIEGO – The first in a trilogy of trials that form perhaps the biggest recruit-abuse scandal in Marine Corps history ended yesterday with a former drill instructor being sentenced to six months in prison. Sgt. Jerrod M. Glass also was demoted to the lowest Marine rank – private – and received a bad-conduct discharge. A military jury had found that he beat or otherwise denigrated 23 men in his charge last winter at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. Glass had faced a maximum sentence of 9½ years in prison. In the coming weeks, two drill instructors...

SAN DIEGO (AP) - A Marine drill instructor has been charged with 225 criminal counts connected to abusing recruits, a Marines spokesman said Thursday. In one incident, Sgt. Jerrod M. Glass allegedly ordered a recruit to jump head-first into a trash can and then pushed him further into the container, according to court documents cited in The San Diego Union-Tribune. He is also accused of striking recruits with a tent pole and a heavy flashlight. Two other drill instructors, Sgt. Robert C. Hankins and Sgt. Brian M. Wendel, face special courts-martial in the case, the Marines said. Arraignment dates have...

He could receive 269 years in prison A San Diego drill instructor was arraigned yesterday on 244 counts of abusing recruits in what could be the worst case of such maltreatment in modern Marine Corps history. Sgt. Jerrod M. Glass postponed making a plea during the court session at San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot. He also delayed his request to have a trial by judge or jury. If convicted on all charges, he could be sentenced to 269 years in prison. Glass is accused of striking almost every member of his 60-man platoon – some repeatedly – during a...