Posted on Mar 31, 2016
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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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Edited 10 y ago
Posted 10 y ago
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How about addressing each other as "comrade", as was done in Cold War era communist countries?
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I would suggest growing up, or leaving the military and returning to the safe space in your parent's basement.
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Please focus on important issues. (Read: recapitalization, manpower shortages....)
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Is this a serious question? This is exactly why our military is in trouble. We get wrapped around the axle about minutiae & silly nonsensical issues and the mission gets lost in the haze of pettiness. How about we focus on doing our jobs efficiently & effectively and forget what we're called, or if this & that is fair, or if I'm offended or if I have good enough bullets for my OPR/EPR.
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Lt Col Jim Coe
CMSgt (Join to see), I posted the question for its entertainment value and to highlight the fact the Navy is seriously considering how to make their job titles, e.g., fireman, gender neutral. Yes, it's a bunch of politically correct nonsense in my opinion also.
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PO2 Joan Feledy
well apparently this question, although many of the answers have been quite comical, we all seem to be on the same page, went through in the Navy when they removed rating titles effective immediately…. now there is a cluster
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Were all men in some way. Men and women. The term "man" denotes a species, not a gender(i.e. mankind). This PC stuff has gotten waaaaaay out of hand.
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From my days in Minot (85-88) I seem to recall that "Wingnut" is/was gender neutral.
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PO1 John Johnson
Ah, but just recently the CG Commandant refused to rename the rates to eliminate "man" from being in them. Score one for Adm. Zukunft!
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So if this happened in the army. Would we refer to female privates as vaginas??
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