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It’s not Russian. The Russians got it from Mongolian. It’s likely the same root term that got adopted into Turkic that seems to be the origin of the modern USMC usage.
Yeah, it's all Turkic/Mongolian.
Americans do seem to behave picked it up from Russians.
The weirdest part is that I learned this from a Russian colleague who commented that our British colleague says, "Cheers!" at the end of every call in a way that reminds him of how Russian soldiers say, "Ura!" (because we have a plan and are going to execute).
I made him confirm that soldiers in Russia say, "Ura!" and I told him about US Marines using the phrase, we googled it to confirm, and had a good chuckle.
I knew I was bi-lingual...