[300magnum]

HOOAH

[nickcarraway]

Isn't this from Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman?

[jjm2111]

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.

[cotton1706]

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.

[Red Badger]

OOOH-RAH! MARINE CORPS!..........

[King of Florida]

I think they should bring back "huzzah."

[meowmeow]

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.

[bcsco]

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

[fireforeffect]

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).

[DariusBane]

Ohhhh, isn't that cute? Little newsboy just discovered the army. Hooah is old as dirt.

[Minnesoootan]

around her it's Uffdah

;-)

[MajorityOfOne]

"Generally used when at a loss for words"

Works for me.

[KC_Conspirator]

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!

[Terabitten]

The best is when you go to a military church service, and instead of hearing "Amen" you hear "Hooah!"

[Eastbound]

I think I grok that.

[CheneyChick]

Everybody understood the article, hooah?

[evets]

[PeterPrinciple]

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.

[Junior]

Marines and sailors have their own saying, more of a "hoo-RAH"...

Usually rendered "Oo-F#####G-Rah."

[GingisK]

When I was "in", we preferred to limit our adjectives and adverbs to four letters. There was an art to stringing them together properly.

[xsrdx]

1. Hoowah; or Huwah. General, interpersonal term used like "roger" or "check". More or less equivalent to "heard and understood."

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.