rebel yell and yeehaw (UNCLASSIFIED)

[Mullins, Bill AMRDEC]

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>
> Jonathan, you if anyone would perhaps know the history of the
exclamatory
> "Hoo'-rah" (with stress on the first syllable), commonly associated
with the
> Marine Corps--for instnace, as a Corpsal response to "Semper Fi!"
Persumably
> it's derived from a variant pronunciation of "Hurrah/Hurray" (with
stress on
> the second syllable), but when did it become separately lexified and
adopted
> by the Marines?
>
>

I'm pretty sure they didn't use the expression in "Gomer Pyle USMC".

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