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Ermey demos a 2,000-year-old Ballista spear-thrower and a WWI Pedersen Device; examines Humvee armor protection; checks out the Rhino PAK; rides a monoplane and shares memories of his beloved Jeep.

R. Lee Ermey gives us an inside look at one of the most secure and super-secret facilities in the world: NORAD.

Ermey returns to Afghanistan; goes on foot patrol around Kabul; tests a CH-53 Super Stallion and an MTVR; gets trigger time with a Cobra attack helicopter and spends time with Medical Corpsmen.

Ermey tours the Pentagon; gets trigger time with the Pentagon Force Protection Agency’s UMP40 submachine gun; infiltrates Army Operating Center; and looks back on how 9/11 changed the Pentagon.

Ermey boards the SS Lane Victory; explores the role of Merchant Marines, Navy Armed Guard and the Navajo Code Talkers in WWII and examines armed-robot SWORDS being deployed on the battlefield.

Ermey tours a Marine Corps Training Center and joins a training exercise; mounts an Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle; and compares the US Marine and German firepower at the Battle of Belleau Wood.

Ermey demos Civil War weapons; examines cavalry gear; looks at the Le Mat 9-shot pistol; cooks up salt pork and hard tack; trains like a Zouave and explores the guns and gear of the Civil War.

Ermey travels to the Pacific Island of Iwo Jima with 86 veterans of the WWII invasion to relive the US Marine Corps' most heroic battle.

Ermey ships out with the Gator Navy and joins in drills; gets an A-Z rundown on ship repair; and looks back on Rosie the Riveter and the Battle of the Coral Sea.

Ermey rides a B-2 Stealth Bomber with the 509th Bomber Group at Whiteman AFB, Missouri. The Gunny pays tribute to the 509th’s Enola Gay and other World War II bombers.

Ermey trains with an Abrams M1-A1 tank; explores the Battle of Kasserine Pass and WWII reporter Ernie Pyle; and tests a new kind of full body armor.

Ermey tests a Benelli M4 shotgun; profiles a Medal of Honor winner; explores the Battle of Ia Drang; gets behind the wheel of a Kubelwagen; and examines the ME-163 Komet fighter plane.