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'Hooah': Odd Cry Becomes Soldier Shorthand
Associated Press ^
| NICK WADHAMS
Posted on 01/27/2006 10:54:17 AM PST by 300magnum
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HOOAH
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posted on
01/27/2006 10:54:17 AM PST
by
300magnum
To: 300magnum
Isn't this from Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman?
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posted on
01/27/2006 10:57:38 AM PST
by
nickcarraway
(I'm Only Alive, Because a Judge Hasn't Ruled I Should Die...)
To: 300magnum
While deployed, I would mock my comrades in arms by using 'hooah in odd and inappropriate ways during conversation. Sort of like, "My guys are on watch, hooah, and I want you to deliver the damn hooah mermites. Hooah?" That was reserved for mushy bureaucratic senior enlisteds.
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posted on
01/27/2006 10:59:11 AM PST
by
jjm2111
(U.S. Navy - The Best branch of the Service.)
To: 300magnum
Where have these people been?? This has been around a long time. It used to be Huzzah!!! Maybe if some in the press had served in the military, they'd know this when they were 18.
To: nickcarraway
I heard it first at Corps of Cadets at Texas A&M in 1967. They'd been doing it for a long time before as far as I know.
It was, of course, a junior privledge to do it.
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:00:37 AM PST
by
D-fendr
To: 300magnum
OOOH-RAH! MARINE CORPS!..........
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:03:01 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
To: 300magnum
I think they should bring back "huzzah."
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:03:55 AM PST
by
King of Florida
(A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.)
To: cotton1706
"if some in the press had served in the military...."
Hahahahahahah....that's a good one.
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:04:07 AM PST
by
300magnum
(We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity, and returns to strike us)
To: 300magnum
The Air Force uses, "I'm going to the gym!" or sometimes, "This sucks. Let's go get a beer."
Or at least that's what I hear around here the most.
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:07:48 AM PST
by
meowmeow
(Meow! Meow!)
To: 300magnum
Apparently the AP isn't aware of 'Mail Call' on the History Channel. Gunny R. Lee Ermy uses the call which is an old Marine tradition.
sarcasm /on Of course, the AP doesn't have to know a damn thing about the Military to report on it, does it! /sarcasm now off
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:09:52 AM PST
by
bcsco
("The Constitution is not a suicide pact"...A. Lincoln)
To: 300magnum
The way I heard it.
No shit there we were, during an Infantry Officer's basic Course (Ft. Benning, GA) in 1989/90 a certain Tactical Officer was prone to giving vague, contradictory orders. The 2LT's in the class took to saying HOOAH to any of his questions/directives. What the students meant was Head Up Ass (HUA).
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:10:39 AM PST
by
fireforeffect
(A kind word and a 2x4, gets you more than just a kind word.)
To: meowmeow
"Did you get a tee time?" is another from the Air Force.
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:11:26 AM PST
by
oyez
(OK now.. What did I do with those dilithium crystals?)
To: 300magnum
Ohhhh, isn't that cute? Little newsboy just discovered the army. Hooah is old as dirt.
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:13:12 AM PST
by
DariusBane
(I do not separate people, as do the narrow-minded, into Greeks and barbarians.)
To: 300magnum
around her it's Uffdah
;-)
To: jjm2111
I used the abreviation: huh? :)
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:15:00 AM PST
by
SFC Chromey
(We are at war with Islamofascism)
To: oyez
I forgot about that one - but then it's been a long cold winter here in Arlington. Looking forward to golfing with my Air Force clients...I mean..."having an off-site" soon!
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:15:02 AM PST
by
meowmeow
(Meow! Meow!)
To: 300magnum
"Generally used when at a loss for words"
Works for me.
To: 300magnum
And civilians uttering hooah are generally looked upon with either disdain or the astonishment of a person who has just heard a koala bear recite lines from e.e. cummings. I don't think that at all. In fact, that can be quite endearing.
Ooo-rah!
To: nickcarraway
I don't remember hooah being around in the 70's.
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:16:59 AM PST
by
colorado tanker
(I can't comment on things that might come before the Court, but I can tell you my Pinochle strategy)
To: 300magnum
The best is when you go to a military church service, and instead of hearing "Amen" you hear "Hooah!"
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posted on
01/27/2006 11:28:09 AM PST
by
Terabitten
(If you've abused the public trust, the public should never trust you again. Throw the bums out!)
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