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Ermey tours Wright-Patterson AFB; explores the history of the Lockheed Starlifter; attends a reunion of Vietnam POWs; reveals the truth about Project Bluebook; and flies a B-25 Mitchell Bomber.

Ermey tours Hurlburt Field; gets a taste of “Hell Week”; trains in bomb and anti-terrorist explosive detection; and takes off in the AC-130 to squeeze off a few rounds of a 105 mm cannon.

Ermey checks out Fort Knox’s arsenal; goes on a Recon training course; flies an Apache helicopter; profiles George S. Paton; fires a Vietnam-era M40 Ontos, then visits a tank assembly plant.

Ermey gets the skinny on Pinnacle Armor; explores the mission pitting Pershuing against Pancho Villa; rides an M274 mechanical mule; honors combat cameraman Norm Hatch; and demos a German MG-42 gun.

Ermey gets trigger time at a training facility; checks out British gear during the Revolutionary War; tours a group dedicated to locating missing service men and women and re-enacts a WWII air raid.

Ermey drives a Polaris MV and Textron M117; fires an M4 carbine and Beretta M9; and puts gear from Spec Ops, Blackhawk, Oakley, CamelBak, and Camillus through its paces.

Ermey gets the scoop on the fight against insurgency in Iraq; meets civil affairs specialists and engineers, then pays tribute to an Army Corp. killed in Iraq.

Ermey rides an M8 Armored car; demos the Mauser C96 pistol; overviews German weapons, gear and gadgets during WWII, and explores the history of canine warriors, from WWI, through today.

Ermey flies high in a P-51 and P-47; examines Marine gear during WWII; rides in a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor; bids farewell to the Navy F-14 Tomcat; and shows off his own most famous SNAFUs.

A compilation of some of host R. Lee Ermey's favorite weapons and biggest explosions.

A compilation of some of host R. Lee Ermey's favorite military vehicles.