Posted on 01/27/2006 10:54:17 AM PST by 300magnum
Or, "how do you like your martini?"
I think I grok that.
You groundpounders can sneer all you want, but we have perfected the art of fighting wars without ever getting more than eight hours away from a flush toilet. ;^)
"around her it's Uffdah"
Darned tootin'. Yah sure, you betcha. If a guy can't say Uffda when things get a little tough, what's a guy to do, then?
Everybody understood the article, hooah?
Marines = HU-RAHH
Army = HOOAH
Thanks for the clarification!
Working hard, or hardly working?
The Air Force brass once reportedly got so irked about sharing "hooah" with the Army that it tried to get airmen to shout "Air power!" instead. But "Air power!" did not have the same potency as "hooah," and has been largely abandoned.
My communication theory is that men are born with only a limited number of words. Grunts and variations are not words, so they do not deplete our limited supply. We are scared of running out of words and conserve them wisely.
Hooah is a variation of a grunt and it works for me. "Air power" is a word.
Usually rendered "Oo-F#####G-Rah."
When I was "in", we preferred to limit our adjectives and adverbs to four letters. There was an art to stringing them together properly.
2. HOOAH, or HOOwA. Generally used in formation or groups, at high volume. Used to express motivation, or great enthusiasm. Or simply concurrence.
Both Army terms differ significantly from USMC OOh-Rah, used primarily under conditions of duress or enthusiasm, or both.
Great post!
The term ooh-rah!! in the Marine Corps is derived from the barking noise of a Devil dog. (Teufell-hunden: nickname given by the germans to Marines in WWI).
Most Marines just let out a loud and proud bark when motivated, but it has turned into the words ooh-rah over the years.
Semper Fidelis & OOH-RAH!!!
Definition: Fugeddaboutit.
Marine ping!
Dr. Laura says Hooah at the beginning of every hour of her show because her son is in the ARmy. Coming from her it sounds really, really lame.
REMF?
He doesn't know where it came from? These idiot journalist today can't research anything can they? It came from a unit that was put into battle so often that they finally started asking "Who, us? when they were told they were to go into a bad situation. This eventually became hoo ah. 101 airborne I believe in WWII. Could have been another unit but I believe I am correct. FReepers that know sound off! HOOAH.
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