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
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I already gave a response to this but just soldier (Army), Marine(Marine), (Squid not intended to be offensive, y'all know what you use among yourselves) so whatever term that is common to all Navy or Coast Guard, to the Air Force I don't have one but I'm sure they must have one common among themselves, just use it. Damned PC crap! My personal favorite; get a damned grip and do your frikkin' jobs. What you get called in Basic is enough to curl your hair so be glad your not insulted to that degree.
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This is an absolutely ridiculous topic, started by ultra liberals and feminists. There is nothing wrong with being called by your chosen profession. Those with a problem are just changing how we say it and then saying it's offensive. To use the example in the question, corpsman is pronounced CORPSman, feminists say it corpsMAN. That is the basis of their offense. There is no gender in any of the military ranks or titles. AIRman or SEAman only designate you as a lower enlisted of the Air Force and Navy respectively. If feminists have such a problem with -man in their titles what else should we start calling woMEN?
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SPC Jason Sharp
The Navy is cowing to those liberals we currently have in government in the hopes of keeping their sizable budget allocations. They just won't be able to go back once a stronger, less liberal government steps up. 240 years of history and tradition flushed!
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Airperson BUT shorten it to AP. i.e AP Jones, AP Smith. What is the Navy doing? Theirs is Seaman. Are they using ":Seaperson". They could go with "SeaP" i.e SeaP Jones, SeaP Smith. They really need to make rank insignia consistent. Navy has 2 stripes for an E-1, Air Force has 3 stripes for an E-4. If they get that straightened up, they could all go with Private, PFC, Corporal , etc, etc. lol, I imagine calling ANY Sailor a private or Airman a private or corporal borders on blasphemy on this forum.
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PO2 Joan Feledy
leave it the way it is, if someone is that gender sensitive getting into the military, I would tell them to suck it up, stop your whining and turn two baby tender love
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They tried this back in '98 some of the ranks that were seriously considered were "Thrust" and "Lift". I kind of like the sound of Thrust Wiederstein. just saying.
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Don't see no harm in it, as long as you identify the concerned gender or describe either males or females. Not a war stopper!
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Airmans creed, airmans coin, airman leadership school (ALS). We air american AIRMAN. PERIOD
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