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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 think it's a crying shame that the armed forces is bowing down to liberal bull crap of "gender neutral" titles. IF women are so upset about it, why don't they remove "men" from "women" first. I take offense to being associated with such pansies.
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CPT Derwin Howell
And BTW.....I don't care whether both genders are on the front lines together either.....as long as there is ONE standard. Make the set standard....serve and fight together.
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There is no alternative. Do not destroy tradition, especially for the AF which has only 50 plus years of tradition. I am Navy and do not believe the Navy should destroy any further tradition. Tradition is part of what allow the core values to exist. Most core values are based on those traditions. Just my thought.
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I'd suggest we leave Airman alone and push back to leave as is. There's a man in woman, isn't there? I'm part of a growing number of old farts who are sick and tired of all the BS also known as PC.
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I would definitely be down to bring buck sergeant back in place of senior airman
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The only thing I can think of to help is "Airmember", a mix of crewmember and airmen.
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CMSgt J. DeForrest III
Woman. Airman. It already is gender nuetral. I hope we don't really try to change it.
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I do not do gender neutral. One is either male or female - nothing else except neutered. And Airman referrs to both. Or Airwomen if the is desired. I was in the early 70s and 80s and that is how I did it. I was Army and we were soldiers period.
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this is another reason why I retired...there are far more better topics to discuss then these mundane topics about women in the service. I don't care what the Air force comes up with but they will be changing what worked for many years. This is another example of cow towing to a political agenda which will have far reaching impact on the force. Women do play an integral role
in the military but you can not keep changing due to political pressures from the Liberals.
in the military but you can not keep changing due to political pressures from the Liberals.
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Airman/Airmen is just fine ... there is no sexual connotation unless you decide to make it one!
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