getting out of the army

[Grammy]

well stage one is complete. i cleared my unit today. never thought i would out process from afghanistan, but hey im not complaining.

i have about 15 flights ahead of me, and its gonna take a while. then back to fort drum for a while... then the drive to houston.

then its on to chl class at shilows!.

ill update this thread with some pics once i get back in the states. i plan on passing through ky on my way back to texas, and unless it ends up being off hours when i go through i will be stopping at buds gun shop to meet and greet, as well as make a purchase. i will update here with that as well.

feels good to be getting out.

instead of thanking me for my service, reply with pics of funny stuff. that will be thanks enough, because i have a feeling im gonna need to laugh once i get off the last flight and finally get back to the states.

No funny pictures here.

Just a little advice from someone that was a former infantry paratrooper that was overseas for 5 years except for a short stint at WRAMC. I felt like I was in an episode of the twilight zone when I first got back to the states, everyone in their own world and everyone seemed to me like a shady used car salesman. Take some time, decompress, for me it was best to just get away from everything and slowly get back into sociaty, I emphasize slowly. Don't worry the ratrace will be there for you when you are ready to jump back in the game.

Good luck to you and thank you for serving...

[Purplehood]

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.

I personally think that it was the whole Warrior-ethos thing that went through the Marines in the 70's, and probably bled over to the Army after that due to the success of the Marine Recruiting commercials that started in the 80's. Having been in both (and as a Marine Recruiter), that is my theory.