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 Team Leader
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I would have zero problem with being called "airman." It is simply a term.
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A1C Joe Edwards
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Why don't these idiots just stop the BS already with their infiltrating every aspect of our lives with the politically correct nonsense Why don't you just start calling everyone asshole, because everyone unless they have had a colostomy has one
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Sgt Field Radio Operator
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Lt Col Jim Coe Sir, no time and money should be spent on changing titles. Instead we need to expend resources on keeping our readiness up and preparing for upcoming conflicts around the globe.
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PV2 Chuck Adams
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Airgendernueutral, corpsgenderneutral, etc
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SPC Ann T.
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I am getting tired of all the PC BS. We didn't fight so long and so hard to be allowed to do what we can't, and we didn't fight to change all tradition to please some overzealous few. Leave names as they are, and work to be the best possible you so that you can honestly say you earned what you got. Quit trying to change things that have no effect on readiness and focus on making our military the best and most effective on the planet forever. We need to have the best artillery, the best infantry, the best air, land and water forces. The best personnel and finance and logistics. What you get BORN with should not be the issue, but what you make out of it. What you call a particular rank or position is more a matter of tradition and pride, not some foolish attempt to make all things gender neutral, or to keep some people with sand where it shouldn't belong happy.
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SSG Tactical Air Control Party (TACP)
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That should be easy Like to be HUMAN is to a Airman so that does not say men ,Look at Women and now you have that still a problem or is it BS
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MSgt Wayne Morris
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Airstud or Airstudettes if female. If gender confused call them Airheads.
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CPT Bruce Chester
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That's just ridiculous. Mature people understand that it is all inclusive. I'm surprise you guys wasted you time with this.
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SFC Technical Engineer
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All due respect, but why change it. Women have been in the AF for years without a change. It's unfair to change the terminology for transgender people when you did nothing to acknowledge women all this time.
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CW4 Peter McHugh
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Occurs to me the change will require a good deal of thinking and rewriting of documentation....let's see:

enlisted men and women could become enlisted persons....but then we would have to do something about the word "son", a male term, in the collective "persons" and a lot of other words. Human would have to become something else...and I haven't coined a politically correct replacement. There would eventually have to be consideration of a host of other terms and words....what will we do with menhaden, or menstrual cycle, or how will we cope with resolving the obvious bias of the word "manly" or the perceived incorrectness of "womanly"...? What term do we apply to appropriately include or exclude cross gender connotations, particularly where local jurisdictions amend laws to broaden access to traditional latrines (excuse the unintentional use of the gender biased term "broad"? I don't see an early end to this debate... nor a way to properly "man"age the outcome...
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