What would be your gender-neutral alternative to referring to all Air Force members as "airmen"?

casualty

Alright Jim, How far are we taking this? Are we going to change the word women because men is in the name? Really, lets stop being a social experiment and lets be a military. Enough is enough.

WHy are we falling for this limp wristed pacifist propaganda. If there are those who do not like the historical references we have in the military my alternative would be "Discharge for good of service". We have too much "acceptance" out in the civilian world - its disgusting. Now these weak minded policies and thoughts are infiltrating our military.

It would still be Airman. There is nothing wrong with it containing "man". Woman ends in "man". are we doing to change that too?

How stupid and a waste of taxpayer money. The Greek word for man is for all mankind including women!

Already neutral

Since the military in genera is deep in tradition, I would think that should be a determining factor with this topic to change an identity that has done no harm to women that have served in the Armed Forces. I would ask has their been a poll conducted by women across the military indicating they want such a change! Also what about the women who have served and received awards that have airmen, corpsman, seaman, etc imbedded into the award write up. Is there going to be an effort to go back and change the records of those service members to meet the current trend. It would be nice if we lived in a perfect world where everybody is the same, but that isn't reality!

Female Airman; She Airman ; Don't mess with something that is not broken. Women are wanting equality, keep calling them airmen

I guess the nouns "woman" or "women" are not gender neutral either. Hmmm!

I just can't help to see where this may lead. Instead of medals and ribbons the Air Force will one day call them as "Frequent Flyer Awards" and refer to Air Force personnel as "Stratosphere Combat Aviators" - whoops, must leave out the word "Combat" - too war like. Hmmmm, what would the military call combat? "Armed Pugilistic Events" - it's all so lame. There's nothing dignified about these proposed changes. Nothing at all! No dignity - no respect.