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3 unusual facts about Gunnery Sergeant


Gunnery Sergeant

Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), fictional lead character for the show NCIS, "Senior" Special Agent and former Marine well known to high ranking Navy and Marine officers on the show as "Gunny", a nickname for Gunnery Sergeants, in the spirit of camaraderie.

GySgt Alva Bricker (Beverly Archer) was a regular cast member in the television series Major Dad

Michael Pucci

Michael Joseph Pucci (born 1 June 1963) is a retired US Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant and Australian Liberal National politician who is the member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland for Logan, having won the seat at the 2012 state election.


Bob Lee Swagger

Bob Swagger is a retired Marine Gunnery Sergeant who was born in 1946 and raised in Blue Eye (a fictionalized version of Mena, Arkansas) in Polk County, Arkansas.

Doom novels

A scout with Fox Company, Arlene Sanders was the first woman permitted to join the company, after performing a William Tell routine with the company's Gunnery Sergeant, Goforth.

Internal decapitation

On July 31, 2011, United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant David Smith was rear-ended by a drunk driver while sitting on his motorcycle at a stop light in Rancho Bernardo, San Diego, California.

Marine Corps Martial Arts Program

In 1956, at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Hayward (captain of the Judo team at MCRD) made Gunnery Sergeant Bill Miller the new Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge of Hand-To-Hand Combat.

The Nun and the Sergeant

In a forerunner of The Dirty Dozen, Marine Gunnery Sergeant McGrath (Robert Webber) takes 12 Marines from the brig and trains them to blow up a tunnel behind North Korean lines.


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3rd Battalion 4th Marines

The most recognizable is a Pulitzer Prize winning photo, taken on Hill 400, showing a wounded Gunnery Sergeant Jeremiah Purdie being guided by a Hospital Corpsman Darrell Hinde as he reaches out to Sergeant Larry Mitchel whom was also seriously wounded waiting to be medevaced.

Bernard B. Fall

On 21 February 1967, while accompanying a company of the 1st Battalion 9th Marines on Operation Chinook II in the Street Without Joy, Thừa Thiên Province, Fall stepped on a Bouncing Betty land mine and was killed, along with Gunnery Sergeant Byron G. Highland, a U.S. Marine Corps combat photographer.

History of Lobos

On August 21, 1779 Gunnery Sergeant Pedro Rodríguez concluded the construction of the main parts of the fort San Pedro de Los Lobos, over the eastern bank of the Lagoon about 300 meters from its shoreline and nearly 1,500 meters east of the mouth of Las Garzas stream, finishing the work Lieutenant Bernardo Serrano had begun.

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

Idiotic driving instructor and former United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty (Alan Arkin) lives in poverty near Hollywood, California.