[ken5050]

So, I was wondering if any here had any ideas, or insight, as to the derivation, and if they remembered when they were first exposed to it in their own military service. Its use, as we know, has spread across the various branches of the military, and there is even some doubt as to which service first adopted it. It's now ubiquitous in civilian life as well, even on the homepage of "FR."

When I was enjoying the "pleasures" of Quantico in the mid 60's, during PLC the term was used often, but wasn't the institutional response it is today....

Please flag any others who might be iterested...

[Lewite]

YAH is the family Name of our Loving Father YAHWEH in the Heavens and His Loving Messiah Yahshua who gave his life that we may have life. We should praise His Name and proclaim His Majesty. We are not to belittle or blastfeme His Setapart Name. The Scriptures (eliyah.com) command us to praise His Name and to use it righteously. Rabbi Robert E. Larkin-Messianic Yisrael Fellowship.

[scouse]

I was in the Army ('64-67) and I never heard the term.

[Larry Lucido]

"Hoo-yah!"...When did you first use it in the military?

At Ft. McClellan, it was "ooh-rah!" Yelled loudly and often, at the "suggestion" of the drill sergeants. Nobody argued with them.

[ssgtmick]

It is slang for hurray or hoorah, almost always pronounced hoo-rah.

hurrah
1680s, alteration of huzza, apparently influenced by similar shouts in German, Danish, Swedish. Perhaps picked up during Thirty Years’ War. According to Moriz Heyne, this was the battle-cry of Prussian soldiers during the War of Liberation (1812-13). Hooray is its popular form and is almost as old. Also hurray; hoorah (1936).

It was seldom used around me as I served in the Air Force and Guard during the 80’s.