For those who didn't know....

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article (http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/mcn2000.nsf/ac95bc775efc34c685256ab50049d458/eeaec65e52f6343a85256f3b00518e2d?OpenDocument&Highlight=2,reconnaissance)Kinda cool when you consider how and where it began....

[jcollettusa]

I learn something new everyday.

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The recon Marines, who heard this sound often, started using it as a motivational tool during runs and physical training. Over time, the word "Aarugha" came to be too much of a mouthful, and eventually molded itself into the familiar "Oorah," according to Maj. Gary Marte, a retired Marine.

Budda was the 1st to jump out of a plane with a nylon chute and now this... I tell you..

RAT OUT!!!

[BlackDragonUSMC]

i never hear anyone in my unit say that, we all just kinda go "errr.." in a grunt like sorta fashion, guess its a 3/7 thing.

i remember in SOI the lady that ran the chow hall always said "good morning Marines" whom we would all give a good morning, then she'd say oorah of course with most of us fresh guys saying it back. one morning, she tried it and everyone was just soo tired and wanting to get off for the weekend we all just sorta shut up and let it hang, i think it hurt her feelings, lol.

[Sean0352]

Trav, "errr" is not a 3/7 thing, we all say it. Gimme a call this weekend.

[BlackDragonUSMC]

suppose u have a point there.

[Miguel]

Yeah, EErrrr is definately not a 3/7 thing. It is a big grunt thing though as I found out at the SGT's course then the Staff Academy. Most of the wingers and FSSG Marines want to give the full OOHHrah thing.

No biggie, but I was always partial to the errr a soon as I left SOI.

It can be used in so many ways without much of a difference in infliction:

Eerrr: Roger That.

Eerrr: I don't care if we have media with us, shot that fucker again.

Eerrr: Yeah, Whatever.

Eerrr: Your right, she is hot.

Eerrr: Fuck yeah I need another beer.

Eerrr: O.K.

Eerrr: I love ya brother.

[namor]

Interesting article, but the Hounds from Hell bark definitely predates the '80s. I can vouch that in the early '70s it was in widespread use at Parris Island and Camp LeJeune.

[mccarthy]

I can't remember exactly where I read this, but it was definitely in a James Webb book (Something to Die For?). Oorah is a corruption of the word "Uhrah," the Turkish word for kill.

Maybe someone can confirm this. Or tell me I'm full of shit.

[SOTB]

Originally posted by mccarthy
Maybe someone can confirm this. Or tell me I'm full of shit. Hey buddy. I started this thread, so of course "I'm" right....:D

[skeeter8654]

Originally posted by Southoftheborder
Hey buddy. I started this thread, so of course "I'm" right....:D

Yep. Read the official Marine Corps pub they talk about in the artical, got it somewhere in storage, called Aarrugah!, which goes over the history of Marine Corps reconnaisssance and tells the origins of Oohrah! somewhere in it. Pretty cool.