WTF IS OohRah???

Gunny G's Oohrah Forum ^ | 112901 | Dick G

[gunnyg]

OK, it seems everybody has an opinion on oohrah.

Therefore, it shouldn't be too difficult to run down the poop as to where this aberration originated--with so much talent aboard FR, somebody's bound to have a decent reference of some kind,

My troubles are over, and here I've been searching for a source document on my own all this time. Had I known of the great interest in this subject, I'd have come here first!

I have numerous threads on this subject all over the WWW, getting kinda hard to keep track of, so I have opened an additional Forum for this one subject alone.

See Gunny G's Oohrah Forum!

Let's get to the bottom of this bs!

[gunnyg]

Dick Gaines
GySgt USMC (Ret.)
1952-72

[thatsnotnice]

WTF IS OohRah???

I've never heard it from a Marine - but then I don't know many and don't see them often.

Growing up, there was a family friend that had been in the Navy. He did a lot of diving and was in an underwater demolition team or something - I just remember him and his buddies having some pretty loud parties for old timers. Anyway, they used to yell HOO-YAH at the top of their lungs whenever they had reunions at his house. I always thought it was some juxtaposed version of YAH-HOO, but I was just a kid.

[RoughDobermann]

Bump

[harpseal]

OohRah is NOT Hooyah.

Stay well - Stay safe- Stay armed - Yorktown

[d4now]

According to my former husband, a former Marine sniper, it's...ooh raw. Raw as in fresh meat.

[SERE_DOC]

From what I have been told it's Turkish for "Kill"

[curmudgeonII]

Perhaps it's Russian, written [my keyboard doesn't have Cyrrilic characters] as YPA. The Russians do not have the letter h in their alphabet. YPA is their equivalent of hoorah.

[monkeyshine]

actually, it's Ura, a rare Japanese fish that makes a delicious sushi. Hard to get here in the USA, but in Japan it costs about $40 a plate.

[Travis McGee]

Beats me, ya gotta ask a leatherneck.

[Poohbah]

"Ooh-RAH!" is the battle cry of Marines. It's from the Russian battle cry Urrah!, which means (freely translated) "KILL 'EM ALL!"

[GSWarrior]

I was at one time the editor of the Camp Pendleton SCOUT. We ran a story tracing the origins of "oohrah." I will attempt to dip it up at home and post it here.

[gunnyg]

Thank you--sounds good--appreciated!

DickG

[riley1992]

From the search that I did I came up with it being the Russian word for 'hurrah' or 'hurray' that the Russians used during WWII.