Gunny Says Military Birthers Got A “Major Malfunction”
Ermey Says He’ll ‘Square Away’ Birthers
Troops challenging the legitimacy of President Barack Obama as commander-in-chief — including at least one who is fighting deployment — should take heed: Gunnery Sgt. Hartman wants to know your “major malfunction.”
R. Lee Ermey, the Marine-turned-actor whose role as drill instructor Gunny Hartman in the late Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” has all but placed the Vietnam veteran in the pantheon of Marine heroes alongside “Chesty” Puller, Smedley Butler and Dan Daly, isn’t buying anyone’s political objector status.
“I haven’t heard about those guys,” Ermey told Military.com during an Aug. 21 interview. “If I do run across them though, trust me, I’ll square them away.”
Two GIs deployed to Iraq have insisted that Obama isn’t a legal citizen while another Soldier, Maj. Stefan Cook, has been waging a court fight – first in Georgia, then Florida – to force the president to produce a birth certificate that will satisfy his objections.
The cases are the first known instances of some troops joining what has become known as the “birther” movement, referring to Americans who doubt whether Obama is technically qualified to be president based on the absence of a “long form” birth certificate that documents where he was born.
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