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Mail Call

Mail Call

—Host R. Lee Ermey, a retired staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, reads mail and answers viewer questions about past and present military matters. Ermey frequenly takes viewers on location to address certain questions or types of equiment, and runs the show almost as if he's a drill instructor for the viewers.
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Record to watch 5 episodes in the next two weeks

    Civil War Cannoneers; Night Vision; Clearing a Minefield
    Re-Fueling a Fighter Jet; Naval Signal Flags; GI Chow
    Ninja Weapons; Flamethrower; Military Dogs
    D-Day Special
    Anti-Tank Rocket; Bazooka; HQ Tour; Tactical Operations Center; Downed Pilots Rescue; 21-Gun Salute
  • Civil War Cannoneers; Night Vision; Clearing a Minefield

    Aiming Civil War artillery pieces; how night-vision technology works; how to clear a minefield.
    Upcoming
  • Re-Fueling a Fighter Jet; Naval Signal Flags; GI Chow

    How to refuel a fighter jet in midair; how ships send messages using signal flags; what soldiers eat.
    Upcoming
  • Ninja Weapons; Flamethrower; Military Dogs

    The weapons of the Japanese Ninja; how flamethrowers work; what military dogs do.
    Upcoming
  • D-Day Special

    On location in Dover, England and Normandy, France, Ermey focuses on the technology deployed on D-Day.
    Upcoming
  • Anti-Tank Rocket; Bazooka; HQ Tour; Tactical Operations Center; Downed Pilots Rescue; 21-Gun Salute

    AT-4 shoulder-mounted anti-tank rocket; bazooka; tour of "Mail Call" headquarters; Tactical Operations Center; Air Force pararescuemen; 21-gun salute.
    Upcoming

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Host R. Lee Ermey, a retired staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps, reads mail and answers viewer questions about past and present military matters. Ermey frequenly takes viewers on location to address certain questions or types of equiment, and runs the show almost as if he's a drill instructor for the viewers.

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