What was the real name of Private 'Gomer Pyle' in the film "Full Metal Jacket"?

The real name of Private 'Gomer Pyle' in the 1987 film "Full Metal Jacket" was Leonard Lawrence. The overweight and slow-witted Leonard Lawrence earns the nickname 'Gomer Pyle' after incurring the wrath of Senior Drill Instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman (Lee Ermey).

In the film, Vietnam-era Marine recruits have to endure the grueling ordeal of a U.S. Marine Corps basic training camp. Later in the plot, of the film the recruits as full time U.S. Army soldiers must face the unrelenting Viet Cong during the 1968 Tet Offensive. The actions of the soldiers in this grim Stanley Kubrick war drama are based upon the hard hitting Gustav Hasford novel "The Short-Timers" (1979).