FULL MILITARY HONORS FOR R. LEE ERMEY AT ARLINGTON JANUARY 18

katsfm.com ^ | January 2, 2019 | Curt Cartier

[Pelham]

When I was a boy I used to get allergy shots at the Fort Meyer dispensary so I was there a lot.

The dispensary’s parking lot shared the staging area for funerals at Arlington cemetery.

Occasionally they would be readying a full honors ceremony, with the casket on a caisson and the riderless horse alongside. Impressive.

I imagine that this is what they will be doing for Lee Ermy.

[CJ Wolf]

RiP Gunny.

[wastedyears]

This is incredibly funny.

FULL METAL DISNEY

[wastedyears]

I meant to say I think it was a legitimate promotion to gunnery sergeant. There was a fully ceremony and everything.

[Stanwood_Dave]

I can tell you, as a grand father, at least three more are in training, if God will let me finish the mission. Oldest is now 5 year's old. First Name "CASH." At 5 year's old, he's about ready to sell ICE to the Eskimo's, and he barely stutters, or takes a breath while just talking his face off. ;-)

I hoping at least one of the three, become's P.O.T.U.S.

We're up to rubber band rifle's at the moment.

[SunkenCiv]

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[damper99]

Enlisted (E-1 to E-8) get standard honors. It may or may not include the cassion, depends on its availabiity. Full honors is for E-9 and officers. Only Colonels and above get the riderless horse. Still, it will be a nice ceremony.

[Pelham]

We’ll probably get to see a video of the ceremony. Maybe they’ll do something extra just because it will be widely watched, unless they are worried about setting precedent. I suspect that just giving him a plot at Arlington is unusual these days.

Some of my friends grew up on Ft Meyer’s South Post which is gone now, that land incorporated into the cemetery.

[BerryDingle]

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corps because of something that I said or did.~R. Lee Ermy

But always remember this: Marines die. That's what we're here for. But the Marine Corps lives forever, and that means you live forever.~Gunnery Sergeant Hartman

[dfwgator]

I just hope he got Permission to Die, or else he’s in a world of s__t!