The Mysterious Origins of ‘HOOAH,’ The Army’s Beloved Battle Cry

SSG Michael,
I am glad I did not have to listen to that Hooah crap my entire c career. There is nothing worse than to listen to some form of half hearted bravado! I did like it though when the unit had their own bravado saying ie: First To Fight, Unit whatever leads the Way etc. The Army will have to stop using that slogan if they wish to be politically correct. I do like that reference to the wannabe Marine, Tks LTC Stephen C.

You’re a bold guy, SFC Harry Hutton. You blocked me on a previous thread (still blocked I might add) so I couldn’t respond after you made some rather nasty personal comments about me, yet here you are again making snide comments. Again, you’re giving spelling lessons, yet your own paragraph has misspellings. I corrected you before and it made you angry, and here you continue with misspellings and improper sentence construction while giving us the definitive history lesson on the use of Hooah. No one EVER in the history of the Army ever uttered hooah until the Second Seminole War in 1841? It sounds like a completely unverifiable statement to me, but I’ll take your word for it. I certainly don’t care.
Now then, let’s get to your paragraph! It’s clear you need just as much help now as you did previously. You used “your” (a possessive adjective) instead of “you’re” (a contraction for “you are”). You used “wannabe’s” (the possessive), instead of “wannabes” (the plural).
“Which was originally spelled Hough.” is a sentence fragment and is not a complete sentence. “Century” is a common noun and should not be capitalized.
Perhaps those serving in the Army in the Second Seminole War in 1841 said “Hough”. Maybe it was uttered in an earlier conflict (as you suggest) but the unit historian was killed before he could write about it! We do know that the annoying sound is used in the Army today with great frequency.
So it’s not strange that SSG Michael Eastes is still alive although he claimed he served in the “pre-hooah” Army. He’s an old guy like me (you made a point of that previously). I served from 8AUG69 to 11MAY98. In that entire time, I never heard anyone in the Army say hooah. Apparently SSG Michael Eastes didn’t either.
LTC James McElreath

LTC Stephen C,
From 1974 until I ETS'd 1982 they did not use that slogan for whatever reason, unbenunced to me. Now they do and have been for many years now! Id does not matter when it was initiated, it is alive and well to present date! Now lets be friendly and lets get this childish bickering stopped. Now its time to get your grown-up panties on and grow up! Ps I retired Jan of last year and "Hooah", is alive and well to this day!

LTC Stephen C. I was RA from ‘71-‘79, ARNG ‘80-‘92, and never heard a hooah until our son was in, some years into the current century. We already had enough silly things to say anyway.

I just saw this, LTC Jeff Shearer. Hilarious!