What makes Full Metal Jacket a devastating experience for me, is the gravity of the self-realization when Joker kills the sniper. His drive to revenge Cowboy and at the same time his delivery of cruel mercy to a female child sniper rips his self-denial to shreds. Featuring cheap 50 cal rifle ammunition in stock and bulk 50 cal ammo. Bullets - 660 grain full-metal jacket (FMJ) Casings - Boxer-primed Brass; 50 Cal BMG - 660. The film opens with recruits getting their heads shaved. Single woman living alone tips. In the next scene, sternly welcomes the men to boot camp. Hartman insults, punches, and chokes the recruits to intimate them, reserving his most vicious brutality for a man named Leonard Lawrence, whom he nicknames 'Gomer Pyle.' As the men go about their daily drills and exercises, Hartman berates Pyle for being slower than the others, humiliating him in various ways. Eventually, he places Pyle in the same squad as another recruit named, in an effort to improve Pyle's conduct. When Hartman finds a jelly donut stashed in Pyle's locker, he begins punishing the rest of the platoon for Pyle's mistakes. In the middle of the night, the entire platoon viciously beats Pyle in bed, a hazing designed to 'motivate' him. Although Pyle begins to improve in his daily tasks as a Marine, he also begins to lose his grip on reality, talking to his rifle and staring vacantly during their normal exercises. On Christmas Day, Hartman explains to the men that 'God has a hard-on for the Marines.' Joker tells another recruit named he's worried that Pyle may be a 'Section 8,' meaning he is mentally unfit for service. On the last night of boot camp, Joker finds Pyle out of his bed and sitting on a latrine with his rifle. Although Joker attempts to communicate with him, the deranged Pyle shouts the Rifleman's Creed, waking Hartman up. Hartman rushes in, and Pyle kills him, then himself, while Joker looks on in horror. The film flashes forward to Da Nang, Vietnam, where Joker has been assigned as a combat correspondent for Stars and Stripes, along with a partner named. Joker attends briefings with his editor, Lockhart, who wants the men to write stories that pander to supporters of the war effort. Although he discourages Rafterman from going into the field, Joker himself wants to go into battle so that he can report on it. Other soldiers mock Joker for not having the 'thousand yard stare.' After the Tet Offensive begins, sends Joker to Phu Bai, and forces him to take Rafterman along, against Joker's wishes. Full Metal Jacket Sniper GirlOn the way to Phu Bai, Joker listens to a helicopter gunner describe killing women and children. He later finds a mass grave, filled with corpses covered in lye. After finding a squad leader named Touchdown, Joker reunites with Cowboy, who has become part of a group named the 'Lusthog Squad.' Other members of the Lusthog Squad include Animal Mother, a hulking man who wears ammunition belts, and Crazy Earl, an ardent fighter who keeps a Vietnamese corpse as a souvenir.
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