What does oo rah mean

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Sign Up for Updates. Share this Article Like this article? Email it to a friend! Some things you may hear when around military personnel is the term Hooah which differs from branch to branch. The term can be heard in good or bad situations as well as formal or informal settings. No matter the branch, the term is generally used in high morale, high spirit situations as a coin of acknowledgment to a speaker or leader.

Our military training instructor would require us to yell the term after the end of each set in a workout in order to add fun to the strenuous physical activity. It was almost as if the louder you say it, the more you respected your instructor was and the more spirit you had in conducting the exercise.

I will definitely say no matter how tired you were throughout the workout, you definitely still had enough wind in you to yell it as loud as you could. Just like other aspects of military culture, there is a different way of doing the same thing in each branch. For instance, the chow or mess hall in the Army is the exact same thing as the dining facility in the Air Force. The culture of each branch uses a different slang to the point where when you speak to others from different branches you have to go in depth about what you are talking about even though you are both in the Armed Forces and work together all the time.

As you can see, in most cases the term no matter the flavor or slang that is put on it either is a term of acknowledgment or spirit and morale. In light of spirit in morale just in case there is confusion. I will give a short example. When a friend of yours or even someone from your unit is called many different things are chanted in happiness for someone achieving something in their careers.

This phrase is used almost exclusively by the Marine Corps. In my personal opinion, the term is used as something you use often and loud in your younger years in the Armed Forces and as you gain rank and grow older you still use the term but in a way to address whether or not your constituents understand what you are saying and copy.

To each is own no matter how or when it is used, but it is just another term that makes the one percent of the United States population more unique. Some may understand where we come from when it is said and some may not, as long as we understand and comply that is all that matters. Hi, Mt name is Cinnie. My Husband now deceased, was in the Army, 36 1st. However, take a step back and ask that Marine, "where did 'Oorah' come from exactly? Countless stories abound regarding the mysterious origins of our beloved phrase.

However, unlike many Marine traditions, "Oorah" is rather new. As any veteran of the past 50 years would say, no Marine before could be found saying it. The true popularization of the word came in the '80s and '90s, when it fully emerged from the murky secrecy of Marine reconnaissance through drill instructors and by other means into use by Marines around the world.

Notify me of new comments via email. Jeff Babcock. Is the offical yell for the US Air Force Like Reply Report 1 1 year ago. Tom Knoll. Like Reply Report 4 years ago. David Garver. Not something Obama will ever hear from members of the Armed Forces.

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