Sorry to hear this. just an amazing life he even ran a brothel in the Philippines for awhile. I always got a a kick out of him.
It was in Okinawa, according to a 1997 "Entertainment Weekly" article:
”I stumbled into show business when the Vietnam films were starting,” says the Kansas native, who was studying drama in Manila when Coppola came to town. ”After medical retirement from the Corps, I didn’t know what to do, so I bought a run-down bar and whorehouse in Okinawa.” As Ermey tells it, GIs got ”honorary memberships” for helping him renovate, but ”I was doing a little black-marketing and the Okinawan FBI was hot on my trail, so I boogied on out to the Philippines.” There he met Nila, his wife of 21 years.
Never shy or retiring, Ermey thinks of those as the not-so-bad old days. ”I feel sorry for the kids today,” he volunteers. ”They can’t have fun like we could. The worst thing we had to worry about was the clap. Today, you die. It just isn’t fair.”