Oorah
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Oorah is a battle cry common in the United States Marine Corps since the mid-20th century.
Several anecdotes attributed the phrase to John R. Massaro's time as a gunnery sergeant in the Reconnaissance Company, 1st Marine Division, in the mid-1950s.[1] Massaro (who later became sergeant major of the Marine Corps) and other Marines who trained aboard the submarine Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., beginning in 1949, used oorah in imitation of the vessel's klaxon horn (which sounded like arrugah).[1] Others have attributed the phrase's popularization to Massaro's subsequent time at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, where use of the word spread.[1] However, Massaro has said that he did not originate the word (saying in 2015: "It was a phrase or a term originally coming from boarding a ship") and that the word was already in use in 1949.[1]
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