FUCK YEAH!
http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/the-colbert-effect-and-troop-morale/Build Morale Back Home
It was a great gesture of solidarity for Stephen Colbert to get his head shaved during his televised U.S.O. morale-building tour in Iraq. But there was another moment that was more motivating.
In one of his monologues, Mr. Colbert casually used the all-purpose Army slang, “hooah.” His audience did what soldiers do in that situation: they called it back to him, loud and proud, several hundred men and women in uniform shouting a single, slurred syllable: “HOOOAAAAHHH!”
Mr. Colbert seemed startled, and his reaction symbolized the barrier between military and civilian society, which is part of what he went over to address in the first place.
The U.S.O. is a fantastic organization with a storied history, but
Mr. Colbert’s effort this week stood apart, because it was as much about boosting the morale of civilians back home as it was about boosting the morale of the troops. Getting American civilians to notice and care about the war again can’t help but have an impact on the motivation of the 130,000 or so soldiers we still have on the ground. Not to get all Matthew-Broderick-in-“Election” here, but there is an important difference between morale and motivation. (more at the link)