{"id":11986,"date":"2017-04-04T18:12:05","date_gmt":"2017-04-04T18:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/04\/04\/clash-of-characters-gunny-hartman-takes-title-r-lee-ermey-thanks-his-fans\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T05:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T05:11:57","slug":"clash-of-characters-gunny-hartman-takes-title-r-lee-ermey-thanks-his-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/special-projects\/battle-bracket\/2017\/04\/04\/clash-of-characters-gunny-hartman-takes-title-r-lee-ermey-thanks-his-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Clash of Characters: Gunny Hartman takes title, R. Lee Ermey thanks his fans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After one last dominating performance, a single military movie character stands head and shoulders above the rest. <br\/> <br\/>Head and shoulders and campaign cover, that is. <br\/> <br\/>Gunnery Sgt. Hartman took out Capt. John Miller (&#8220;Saving Private Ryan&#8221;) in the final round of  <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/battle-bracket\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: null\">Battle Bracket: Clash of Characters<\/a>\u00a0voting to claim the title of best fictional military movie or television character ever. R. Lee Ermey&#8217;s &#8220;Full Metal Jacket&#8221; DI wasn&#8217;t seriously challenged in any of his six contests.  <br\/> <br\/>It&#8217;s a run that&#8217;s tough to sum up in a single word, but Ermey himself might&#8217;ve done the trick. <br\/>\u00a0 <br\/>&#8220;Oorah!&#8221; said the actor in an emailed statement to Military Times.  <br\/> <br\/>&#8220;Another victory for Gunnery Sergeant Hartman,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;First, I would like to thank my longtime fans. You have been loyal, and I thank you. I appreciate all of your support. Anything that I can do to honor our veterans and those who serve this great nation, I am always going to do.  <br\/> <br\/>&#8220;This victory feels pretty sweet, as I am a huge movie buff.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br\/>Gunny Hartman racked up a little less than 69 percent of the vote in the final. Along with Hanks&#8217; World War II captain, Hartman&#8217;s tournament hit list included characters portrayed by John Wayne, Mel Gibson, Humphrey Bogart, Robert Duvall and Clint Eastwood, in a first-round battle of the Gunnys\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Hartman vs. Tom Highway (&#8220;Heartbreak Ridge&#8221;). <br\/> <br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s not the first time Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s 1987 drama has taken top honors in our March polling. &#8220;Full Metal Jacket&#8221; was named the best military movie by the Military Times audience in 2015, taking down &#8220;Patton&#8221; in the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The role earned Ermey a Golden Globe nomination for best supporting actor and would lead to dozens more on-screen appearances and several off-screen ones, where he provided voices for characters in the &#8220;Toy Story&#8221; franchise, &#8220;The Simpsons&#8221; and other properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Marine veteran (he was medically retired in 1971 and received an honorary promotion from staff sergeant to gunnery sergeant in 2002) now hosts Outdoor Channel&#8217;s &#8221; <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/outdoorchannel.com\/gunnytime\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link: http:\/\/outdoorchannel.com\/gunnytime\">GunnyTime with R. 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Track with <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/articles\/gi-film-festival-trailer-wars-operation-route-66-vs-55-days\" target=\"_blank\">Trailer Wars<\/a> as we choose a favorite trailer for this year&#8217;s GI Film Festival.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drill instructor that made &#8220;Full Metal Jacket&#8221; famous has claimed this year&#8217;s Battle Bracket crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":12299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":83,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[83,17],"tags":[],"coauthors":[799],"class_list":["post-11986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battle-bracket","category-special-projects"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"6L77SDWB6RDI7NIWIJE4V3W4FE","arc_canonical_url":"\/special-projects\/battle-bracket\/2017\/04\/04\/clash-of-characters-gunny-hartman-takes-title-r-lee-ermey-thanks-his-fans\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Clash of Characters: Gunny Hartman takes title, R. 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