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Purplehood wrote:

G26ster wrote:

Hoi Polloi wrote: Huzzah, hurrah, hurray, hooah, hooyah, oorah... seems like a standard mutation over time. I'd wager that popular media added to the boom. Being the literary geek that I am, I just googled the etymology of huzzah to confirm or deny my suspicions and it looks like I guessed correctly.

Nice work! It does appear from your research that it was the "movies" that instigated the "group HOOAH" rather than the other way around. Interesting.

Having done 24 years in the USMC and the USAR, I too have wondered about the OOH-RAH and HOOAH that these two services like to shout. Though it is purely based on supposition, it is my belief that it is a fairly recent phenomenon (30-35 years) that came about as a result of the Vietnam war and the "return" to the warrior ethos by the Military services. Those of you posters that actually were in Vietnam might be able to clarify whether or not this has any truth...did you guys do that when you were in?

Nope, that's why I asked the question. Apparently, it's the Army that was influenced by the movies, instead of the other way around. The only Hooahs going around in my era (active '62 - '78) was in individual or group bayonet drill during a lunge or parry. Don't think it had anything to do with Vietnam.

Hoi Polloi wrote: Huzzah, hurrah, hurray, hooah, hooyah, oorah... seems like a standard mutation over time. I'd wager that popular media added to the boom. Being the literary geek that I am, I just googled the etymology of huzzah to confirm or deny my suspicions and it looks like I guessed correctly.

Nice work! It does appear from your research that it was the "movies" that instigated the "group HOOAH" rather than the other way around. Interesting.

TexDotCom wrote:Same goes for Dallas, if you're headed through here. I started my outprocessing at Camp Arifjan, KU, back in late '05 and finished up once I was Stateside again. My biggest difficulty...dealing with civilians and their more-emotion-less-logic-and-common-sense thought processes!

Welcome home (in advance) and HOOAH for a job well done!

Welcome home sir! Got nothing funny right now, but others seem to be handling the entertaining

I do have a question for the ex-military on the forum though, and I'm dying to know the answer. Where in heck did group response "HOOAH" come from? Now I'm old and dated. I last saw active duty in '78, but for 16 years was Infantry, both enlisted (thru E-6) and Commissioned (thru O-3) so I think I would have heard group "HOOAHs" if it was around back then. I assure you, it wasn't. Now there were individual "HOOAHs" during bayonet drill, but no group HOOAHs as a message of agreement as there are today. Kind of a group "Amen!"

So, any semi-old ex-army folks out there that can pinpoint the origin of the "group HOOAH" for me? When and where did it start? It's a just bit of useless information that would satisfy my curiosity. Now, if you think this is a dumb question, you are probably 100% correct