# Ooh-rah!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-rah/162640>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [March 19, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-rah/162640 "2003-03-19T21:51:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-rah/162640/1 "2003-03-19T21:51:42Z")

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In an [MSNBC](http://www.msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0cv=CA01) article on early Iraqi surrenders (they’ll be in time for happy hour at the Kuwait Hilton) I saw a picture of rallying soldiers holding rifles and pistols aloft. The kind of thing I expect from a tin pot dictator like Saddam… Wait a minute. Those are Beretta 92s and M-16s… those are Americans. Never mind. We never got to do that in the navy. \<pout\> Actually when I saw the photo I thought the handguns were Helwan Brigadiers, an early Beretta type made in Egypt.

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**Author:** ![radar\_ralf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b2d939/32.png) [@radar\_ralf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/radar_ralf)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-rah/162640/2 "2003-03-20T15:36:53Z")

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Copy of the Beretta Model 52, wasn’t it?

“All the way!”

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**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2003, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ooh-rah/162640/3 "2003-03-20T16:10:00Z")

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I think so RR. I heard they were built in a former Beretta factory not unlike the Taurus 92 clone from Brazil.