I got to Ft. Jackson, South Carolina on a Friday night. We left a little earlier than expected. I was hoping to leave on Sunday so I could party my last weekend in San Diego. The military has a way of raining on my parade sometimes. When I got there I found out that we were actually staying on a little base called Ft. McCrady 3o miles away from Ft. Jackson in the middle of no where. We were so far away we couldn't even get delivery to this base. I know I tried because I got sick of the galley food. Galley meaning cafeteria for you civilian folks and D-Fac for you Army folks. They made sure that we weren't running away anywhere, cause if we did we were running for a long time.
Ft. McCrady wasn't that bad. Maybe because I was only there two weeks and it was so long ago that all the bad memories have slipped away or maybe since I've been here in Baghdad there are things that I dealt with that were a whole lot worse til I think, Ft. McCrady wasn't that bad. On the first Sunday we were there our brand new staff of Drill Instructors were introdued to us and gave us the schedule of events that were going to be striked down upon us to transform us from our cushiony Sailor lifestyle into the oh-crap!-Why-I-did-I-join-the-Army lifestyle. The Army thinks that it's perfectly normal to want to carry around sixty extra pounds of crap on their back every where, especially while marching and singing cadence. For some reason I don't think it's a lifestyle I'm going to incorporate into my personal life.
In our first briefing we found out what the meaning of Hooah was.
Hooah (hü-ä or who-ah) adj. U.S. Army slang term. Referring to or meaning anything and everything except no. Generally used when at a lost for words. "Hooah" can also be used as a question, usually as a tag question, as in "We're going to win this war, hooah?". The most appropriate response is with the exclamation "hooah!" Or it can be used in place of profanity when being given bullshit orders or receiving an ass chewing.
Other popular usages of hooah include:
-Heard, Understood, and Acknowledged
-Good copy
-Roger, solid copy, good, great, message received
-Glad to meet you
-Welcome
-Thank you
-Go to the next slide
-All right!
-Yes
-Squared away (He's pretty hooah.)
-You've taken the corect action
-I don't know the answer, but I'll check on it; I haven't the foggiest idea
-I am not listening
-That is really neat, I want one too.
-That is enough of your drivel; sit down!
-Stop sniveling!
-You've got to be kidding me!
-I don't know what that means, but I'm too embarrassed to ask for clarification
-What? (With a tone)
-Hardcore, tough
-I don't know what you said but I want you to think I was paying attention.
-I disagree but I'll do it anyway.
-I want you to think I care.
-I want to show you I can act motivated.
-Amen!
At first I faught conforming to using the word Hooah! But then I realized that I could be understood and not have to explain myself with one simple word. HooAH! Life was great. And the best thing about it, I could be cursing somebody out and they wouldn't take any offense to it. I got my frustrations out and they just excepted what I had to say. Hooah!
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That's hilarious. A great post. There's an episode of "The Wire" from Shotime where two detectives are investigating a murder scene, and for minutes, the only word they used was "Fuck." Depending the tone and way they used it told you exactly what they were thinking.
"This is a mess."
"This is going to be impossible."
"What was wrong with this guy?"
"Wait, I think I found something."
"Yes, you did"
"I'm not finding anything" and ect.
Also, in the movie "Baseketball" Trey Parker and what'shisname had an entire conversation with the word "Dude" which worked as well.
"Aloha" is supposed to be a catch-all, as well.
Fuck, aloha dude. HOOAH!
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