Full Metal Jacket

:For the type of ammunition, see Full metal jacket bullet.

Trivia

• Stanley Kubrick provided the voice of Murphy, the soldier on the other end of the radio communication in the latter part of the film.
• Vivian Kubrick, his daughter, had a uncredited guest role as a News Camera Operator at the Mass Grave.
• Ermey was originally hired to give another actor hired to play Sergeant Hartman the basics of giving a realistic performance as a Marine drill sergeant, but was quickly hired in the actor's place after the director grew impressed with him.