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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Right on, Airman Nadine. Maybe we could spend our time making our Air Force a better service and more mission oriented.
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CPT Quentin von Éfáns-Taráfdar
Why not call all Air Force personnel "Angels" . Angels are gender neutral and they have wings!
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I concur with those who already pointed out that 'man' is found both in 'woman' & 'human' ... so do the Hu'man'e thing, and put this to rest. Leave things the heck alone! Don't let those not numbered amongst us, have the say on what we should be called!
Proud to be known as an Airman for over 20 years, as was my Father before me for 12 years, don't change a thing!
Proud to be known as an Airman for over 20 years, as was my Father before me for 12 years, don't change a thing!
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CPT Quentin von Éfáns-Taráfdar
Why not call all Air Force personnel "Angels" . Angels are gender neutral and they have wings!
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SSgt Stephen Lindsey
Hahahaha. That was funny. I'm just glad you didn't say Space Cadets or Air Heads.
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CPT Mike Sims
I don't believe we should really change anything. We place too much emphasis in gender neutrality or equality. The term airman has its historical place and purpose even in today's time. I think you will find that the majority of female enlisted and officer airmen have no problem with the term, and enjoy serving their country as airmen in the U.S. Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard.
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I think our country has gone way to far. Any more social engineering and we will have to change our name to Euroamerica.
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The word "man" by definition means both male and female but females have their own individual term "women" so for us to be politically correct we have to invent a word that means males only! These linguistic contortions are useless and ridiculous for obtaining equality between the genders. Did you know that in Farsi, the language of Iran, there is one word for both "he" and "she" and yet that has to be one of the most "macho" societies on the planet?
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I can't believe this is even a topic. The military needs to stay out of political correctness. PC is messing up our country and it will do the same to the military
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PO1 Richard Landon
The problem is that the political class is pushing this on the military. They obviously know little of nor care about traditions.
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I'm more concerned with the morale of the missile operations crews than I am with trying to come up with gender-neutral rank titles. Keep the titles Airman and Airmen. Then again, I wasn't a field grade officer, I was a Staff Sergeant.
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CPT Quentin von Éfáns-Taráfdar
It is a good thing that you weren't female because it would have to be "distaff" sergeant
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I see the question was posted a while back. Thank you for posting it sir, I just had to make comment on it. Seems like the gender thing is always a hot issue and sometimes it gets a bit ridiculous.
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