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Retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey -- a Vietnam veteran, film actor and TV host -- shared observations about modern military technology and his visits with American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq during a "DoDLive" bloggers roundtable today.

Retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey -- a Vietnam veteran, film actor and TV host -- shared observations about modern military technology and his visits with American troops in Afghanistan and Iraq during a "DoDLive" bloggers roundtable today.

He's the sergeant in the Toy Story films and a military authority in a slew of other entertainment roles.

R. Lee Ermey had a distinguished 11 year career in the Marines before he started dabbling in movies, where his skills as a drill instructor gave him a specialty in that arena.

What do men want? Programmers and advertisers ask that question every day. A few weeks back, the Science Channel launched the new series "Catch It Keep It" , dedicated to the notion that guys like watching stuff blown up, set on fire or pushed off tall buildings.

Premieres FRIDAY, JULY 31 at 9pm/8c on HISTORY. History comes to life as former MAIL CALL host R. Lee Ermey leads viewers on a fascinating ride through the engineering, development and demonstration of weapons that made battlefield history in the new one-hour series, LOCK N LOAD With R. Lee Ermey.

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. - Famed Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey and his production crew filmed sequences of his new History Channel show "Lock 'N Load" at Aberdeen Proving Ground in early June.

Travis Steffen, right, formerly of Northumberland, shows Gunnery Sgt. R. Lee Ermey the M-134 machine gun at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.