Posted on Mar 31, 2016
Lt Col Jim Coe
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Navy's top enlisted leader is wrapping up job title review. Intent is to remove "man" from job titles, such as corpsman, to make them gender neutral. All Air Force members are referred to as "airmen" and three enlisted ranks include "man" in their title. What would you suggest as an alternative to "airman"? (You can have fun with this, but serious alternatives also are appreciated.)
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SGT Rocky Venti
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"Hairmen"
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MSgt Sandra McKinney Dent
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AIRMAN - singular and AIRMEN - plural

Keep it simple, we are all AIRMEN, it is both a rank and a term of address, similar to MARINE.
It is not an identification of gender.
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CPT John J. Dobise Jr.
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Well, at least this important issue won't arise once the member is killed, e.g. Army dead, Navy dead, Air Force dead.
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CMSgt Cliff Wagner
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Captain, this is the best answer so far!
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SSgt Chuck “Gunz” Gundlach USMC Ret., MBA
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Why do we waste time on more and more of these ridiculous PC pushes. Next they will be looking for a new word for huMAN or woMAN, et cetera. We need to focus on important shit while we can and leave this frivolous bull to idiots who have nothing better or important to do. An airman is an airman, just like a Marine is a Marine, an army dog is an army dog or a squid is a squid...lol.
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SPC Armando Punceles
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When trying to come up with a gender neutral title for Air Force members, the first title that comes to mind is "Air Head." Because there is no such thing as "gender neutral." You either have "a pair" and you're a man, or you don't have "a pair" and your're a woman. What's wrong with being called Airman or Airwoman? But, allowing myself to play this politically correct nonsense, I suggest, "Airguardian."
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SSgt Jason Schad
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Do we need SJW nonsense invading the ranks of the military. Can our leaders please stop with the PC nonsense? If someone is so offended by having a affix of -man on the end of whatever they are (i.e. corpsman, airman, etc...), you are focused on the wrong things in the military. Leave those arguments for the social media/tumblr mobs. It is ridiculous that this is even a discussion.
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MAJ James May
MAJ James May
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Amen to that
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PO3 Walter Bohdan
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I don't think they should be changed, corpsman, airman, seaman are about as nuetral as you can get and still allow for reference to the job they need to do
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MAJ James May
MAJ James May
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Aye, aye.
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SPC Patrick Gresch
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Genderless Airperson. Just so the LGBTXYZ community doesn't freak out. God are you freaking kidding me. I hope the Army doesn't start messing with titles too. Our civilian "Leaders" must not have anything more important to do. Let's worry about social engineering and making everyone feel all cuddly and warm. I fear for our future if these people make all the changes they probably want to do. I respect women and we had some of our best shooters were women. They were better than me I will freely admit. They were soldiers and so was I. They will ruin our Armed Forces if left unchecked all in the name of equality.
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SFC Jim Ruether
SFC Jim Ruether
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The LGBT community is a very loud minority and they should be treated as such when these silly and very contentious issues present themselves. No body else in the military apparently has a problem with it so let it rest and keep the Airman, corpsman, human, female, terminology that we have all come to respect and accept.
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COL David Turk
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All time classic; "Hey you!".
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Bam
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MSgt J D McKee
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"Man" went to the moon. "Man" invented fire. "Man" is another term for the human race. You know, it says something for the strength of our military that we are able to waste time on crap like this and still trade out about 12 to one on the ground against our recent adversaries. Probably if the truth were known that figure is much higher in our favor, just hard to get a body count with some of the weapons...Not saying the question is crap, but the Navy's senior enlisted has time to do this, instead of actual military-related duties?

Having said that, since 4 out of 9 enlisted ranks in the USAF are called Sergeant in some way, I think maybe we could go to Sergeant for everyone.
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MSgt J D McKee
MSgt J D McKee
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Oops, got the number reversed and wrong. 4 of them are NOT Sergeants of some kind, 5 are. Come to think of it, 3 of that 5 are some kind of Master Sergeant. The USAF has the most messed up rank structure imaginable, who thought replacing Warrants with super grade NCO's was a good idea?

I don't know how to edit this once posted, so commenting on my own comment, sorry.
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