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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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I'm not a member of the Air Force, but it seems to me that an extremely small percentage of the Air Force, or Navy for matter, has any sort of issue the Airman or Seaman title or anything of the sort. Almost all of the enlisted are worried about more important things such as there jobs, their units, and their lives. This PC campaign, while having good intentions, are seriously drawing valuable monetary and mental resources from mission readiness and improvements that could be made elsewhere.
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Air "Warriors," Medical Warrior, Infantry Warrior, Administrative Warrior, so on and so forth
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Airman, it doesn't need to be changed. Society needs to stop being so stupid.
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I respectfully recommend Air Heads? Because it's AIR Force and you do HEAD Counts in the military.
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I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that we deal with the manning issue that has people working insane hours and shifts to meet the flying schedule so that leadership gets the EPR bullets they want. Oh wait, I said "man" in manning. So...um...personing?? *shakes head*
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It's hard to believe we still drop bombs on people, it might offend someone.
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This is a massive waste of resources... If you have a problem with it then dont sign up, nobody held a gun to your head and forced you to sign...
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When is all this PC BS going to end? America was founded on offending people.. Get over it grow some thicker skin and move forward..!
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Clearly the way to go is cute and cuddly: Air-Mouse, Air-Hamster, Air-Kitten and Air-puppy. We can change our broad term description to Flying Squirrels. Then again, that might offend Peta members or something and we can't have that.
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Sir, without being gender based I think a acronym would be accepted without offending anyone.
(AFP) Air Force Professional as with rank standards AFP 1 or AFP Chief so on and so forth,
Hope this gives a little help on the brainstorming,
Respectfully,
ED Mitchell
USMC
(AFP) Air Force Professional as with rank standards AFP 1 or AFP Chief so on and so forth,
Hope this gives a little help on the brainstorming,
Respectfully,
ED Mitchell
USMC
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