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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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To: King of Florida
There's a home brew beer store near here. At the completion of a transaction the shop keeper rings a rope of cowbells and proclaims 'huzzah for the customer!'.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:04:51 PM PST
by
steveo
(No Anchovies? You've got the wrong man, I spell my name steveo...)
To: SFC Chromey
I had a rule over there too. Don't trust anyone with starched and pressed cammies.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:06:43 PM PST
by
jjm2111
(U.S. Navy - The Best branch of the Service.)
To: nickcarraway
A lot older than that - I heard it in high school back in the 60s although I'm not sure where it originated.
To: marine86297
I know that :). I was wondering what abbrev. he meant. But then their are REMFs and their are REMFs if you know what I mean.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:09:48 PM PST
by
jjm2111
(U.S. Navy - The Best branch of the Service.)
To: 300magnum
I heard the soldiers using Hooah before Iraq, they used it a lot in the movie Blackhawk Down, which means they were using it during and before Somalia.
We were not using it up to the time I retired in 1985.
VN was a bit different.
Sarge you just mortared a village. ¨Sorry about that¨
We are dropping your company into this LZ, there is an expected battalion of hard core VC in the area. ¨Ooh number fu$king ten¨
We´re getting shot at sarge ¨No shit GI¨
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:10:32 PM PST
by
Americanexpat
(A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
To: meowmeow
You forgot "When is our tee time, anyway?"
To: Americanexpat
I worked with a guy that did a couple of tours in Nam. He said when they went out through the villages the locals would beg for cigarettes. If he threw out some Winstons or 'Boros they'd yell GI number 1, GI number 1! When he'd throw out the cartons of Pall Mall's (no filter of course so nobody wanted to smoke them) they'd yell GI number 10!!, GI number 10!!
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:25:40 PM PST
by
300magnum
(We know that if evil is not confronted, it gains in strength and audacity, and returns to strike us)
To: nickcarraway
"Isn't this from Al Pacino in
Scent of a Woman?"
It most certainly is!
I'm surprised that an article can address that phrase and not mention it at all.
Hoo-Ah!!!
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:30:39 PM PST
by
ThirstyMan
(hysteria: the elixir of the Left that trumps all reason)
To: 300magnum
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:31:27 PM PST
by
roaddog727
(P=3/8 A. or, P=plenty...............)
To: 300magnum
Know the difference between a fairy tale and a sea story?
A fairy tale begins "Once upon a time..."
A sea-story begins "No Shit..."
Just a little Navy joke to brighten your day...
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:35:12 PM PST
by
Wombat101
(Islam: Turning everything it touches to Shi'ite since 632 AD...)
To: 300magnum
Somebody said it came from the battle cry of the Turks, which meant essentially, "Kill! Kill!"
I like that one.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:36:12 PM PST
by
boris
(The deadliest weapon of mass destruction in history is a leftist with a word processor.)
To: 300magnum
That is true, they loved the menthols, especially Salems.
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:37:22 PM PST
by
Americanexpat
(A strong democracy through citizen oversight.)
To: oyez
My favorite was always "Beer call". Sends shivers up my spine to this day!
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posted on
01/27/2006 12:49:24 PM PST
by
Don Carlos
(Christian, VRWC Member, Gun Nut, Right-wing Wacko. I feel sooo blessed!)
To: 300magnum
I'm not a military guy, but I always thought it was short for Heard, Understood, Acknowledged. I didn't realize there was a debate.
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posted on
01/27/2006 1:29:12 PM PST
by
CharlieOK1
(Ideally pacifism would be great, but only if you've got an army of non-pacifists to protect you)
To: oyez
Somehow I knew this would turn into Air Force bashing. Hey once I deployed to Southern Italy in the Summer and the hotel didn't have AC! So yeah us Air Force guys have hard times too.
To: 300magnum
I heard a soldier say to a reporter when asked what it meant. The soldier said, "it means anything but no, sir".
To: cotton1706
Where have these people been?? This has been around a long time. It used to be Huzzah!!! Actually Huzzah goes back to the British Military and was the equivelant of "Hurray". Hooah more likely evolved from the acronym HUA which stood for Heard Understood Acknowledged. It was used as the response to an order. Thus it gained its characteristic of being an enthusiastic positve response.
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:08:43 PM PST
by
CMAC51
To: oyez
Nah, the Air Force shouts 'Fore'!
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:27:17 PM PST
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution © 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: MineralMan
"around her it's Uffdah" Oh fer cute!
Well ther you go ther then now 'eh?
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posted on
01/27/2006 2:35:47 PM PST
by
Uncle Miltie
(Liberals oppose individual slavery compared to colletive slavery because they hate competition!)
To: colorado tanker; Thunder 6; LTCJ
I agree with you.
I had the privilege of being in the Army from 70-74 and then getting out and doing college and seminary and then coming back in 85.
Hooah was not there in the early 70's and it was there when I came back in the mid-80's.
I was told by some nsdq aviators I was chaplain to that it came out of the Rangers. From there it gradually spread.
Any Rangers out there?
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posted on
01/27/2006 6:39:11 PM PST
by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
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