HUA: Heard Understood Acknowledge or Hooah? Which one do you use, and why?

I was told by a CSM with over 900 jumps, mostly with the Ranger Batts, that Hoah was the sound a paratrooper made as the breath was knocked out of his body by a bad landing. Although LTC Husted's definition works too. Remember, phony enthusiasm is better than no enthusiasm. And, I've heard very detailed discussions following some silly crap consisting of nothing but Hooah....it's a tonal language.

I don't use it anymore. Last month, my unit was at FT McCoy for CSTX and my Soldierswere saying Hooah so much that they managed to kill that word for me in under 3 mikes.

I'm going with "none of the above". I only used that word when required, or when speaking to someone of far higher rank sarcastically or when said person was wasting my/my Soldier's time. In that case, it was in order to keep myself from saying "You need to go away and let us get our job done." I despise that word.

If I use anything at all it tends to be a blend of random sounds that range from a heavy sigh to argh (like a pirate). If I'm feeling especially motivated that day, the random sound will be followed by "Shoot'em in the face". This typically is done for comedic purposes.

HUAW Hurry up and wait.

Neither, I learned the English language and know how to speak it.

Roger that!

'Ruh ... because i'm a Marine

I spent 6 years in the Army & never heard this once. Is it just a pathetic attempt to copy the Marines "ooh-rah" ? If so, just knock it off.

Since I got out in 1979 after 6 years, I tend to use the tem, "Say What"