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Mail Call

Hosted by R. Lee Ermey, Mail Call is a half-hour series that answers viewers' mail about what the armed forces were, and really are like.
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  1. S8 E1 - Mail Call: # 96

    March 15, 2007
    44min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  2. S8 E3 - Mail Call: # 97

    March 29, 2007
    44min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  3. S8 E4 - Mail Call: # 92

    April 5, 2007
    45min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  4. S8 E5 - Mail Call: # 93

    April 12, 2007
    45min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  5. S8 E6 - Mail Call: # 99

    May 3, 2007
    44min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  6. S8 E7 - Mail Call: # 100

    May 8, 2007
    45min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  7. S8 E8 - Mail Call: # 95

    May 17, 2007
    45min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  8. S8 E9 - Mail Call: # 98

    May 24, 2007
    44min
    TV-PG
    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.
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  9. S8 E10 - Ermey's Biggest Bangs

    March 1, 2007
    45min
    TV-PG
    A compilation of some of host R. Lee Ermey's favorite weapons and biggest explosions.
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  10. S8 E11 - Ermey's Hottest Rides

    March 8, 2007
    43min
    TV-PG
    A compilation of some of host R. Lee Ermey's favorite military vehicles.
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