Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors), Honorary Corporal USMC: The Impossible Dream

U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific Surprise, surprise, surprise! Jim Nabors promoted By Cpl. R. Drew Hendricks Jim Nabors, perhaps best known as his loveable, often-bumbling character Gomer Pyle from the hit CBS television show “Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C.,” was promoted to Honorary Corporal in a sunset ceremony held at Fort DeRussy in Waikiki Sept. 25. Nabors …