[RaceBannon]

At Parris Island, I was shouting like I did in High School on the football field. I was quite motivated. My shouting was also like a scream, a Rebel-Yell-if-a-yankee-could-do-it kind of thing.

A friendly Drill Instructer pulled me aside and explained a better way, the Marine Corps OOH-RAH, which in 1977, Not One person in the Army that I heard of ever used anything similar to.

So, I credit the USMC with the origin of OOH-RAH. I heard some Marine cut it from a Russian term URRAH, loosely translated into:Kill them all. That could be false, I dunno.

[MudPuppy]

the Marine version: HOORAH or OOH-RAH sounds more like a bark or a grunt...

........and sounds funny when WMs say it.