Each
week, MAIL CALL answers your questions about the technology used throughout
history by the armed forces. Watch us explain and demonstrate how combat
technology works!
Did
you ever want to know:
How do you drive a tank?
How fast does a Gatling Gun shoot?
Why is a Samurai Sword so powerful?
What are the different pieces of a knight's armor?
What's inside a landmine?
Host
R. Lee Ermey, a 10-year Marine, was a staff sergeant when he was forced
to retire from the Marine Corps after being injured in Vietnam. Ermey
is best known for his role of a drill instructor in "Full Metal
Jacket."
As
a Golden Globe nominee and Boston Society of Film Critics Award-winner
for Best Supporting Actor in director Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal
Jacket," Ermey is also one of the most successful and talented
actors working in film and television today.
