In honour of Veteran's Day, here's a mind-blowing fact I learned this week.

Russian soldiers yell, "Oorah!" before going into battle, because , the word is indeed Russian.

That's right, every time a Marine yells, Oorah! they are speaking Russian
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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.

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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...

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