The line comes from Half-Life, released by Valve in 1998, where the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, shortened to HECU, are the military forces sent into the Black Mesa facility. Their speech is heard mostly as short radio style orders and status reports during combat encounters with the player. Short isolated confirmations like this were later ripped and shared on soundboards and in gameplay videos, where the serious military delivery contrasts with casual or low stakes situations, keeping the clip in use as a dry mission complete joke.