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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Leave it alone. Let the women bitch about it. ANd change nothing. If they want to be equal, then they should be required to have equal rank structuring. Airmen is all.
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PO2 Joan Feledy
sorry TSgt Holmes, but I don't think its women in general, but maybe a few high ups and a bunch of guys who are getting out anyhow making these idiotic changes
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TSgt Charles Holmes
PO2 Joan Feledy - Entirely possible. In my 21 yrs of service, most big changes came along just before some 3- or 4-star air-expanded cranium was about to retire. Bottom line, really, is that political correctness is killing the U.S. armed forces. And that's all this is.
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Being former Navy and than joining the ranks in the Army. I have to say keep it the way it is. But if change has to happen then I would suggest Airedale solider sailor or whatever their rank is. If people find seamen airmen privet offensive than don't join.
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Get over it and stop the plague of "political correctness " spreading through this country. Military is going to have "safe place" at the rate this is going.
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If we can can't use airman or airmen what are we going to change woman, women and female to? This is all silliness!!!!
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We changed fireman to firefighter, but Air fighter might be a possibility, but it sound like an aircraft rather than a person. Airperson is ridiculous. Lets just leave it the way it is. Its getting too silly!
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Really? More PC Bulls**t? So the enlisted leader needs a good bullet for his EPR, huh? Just leave it alone. It doesn't need to be changed. Haven't we had way too much PC in America as well as the military? Just leave it as is. The term "man" is used as a general term for all people. It has no gender meaning at all. There has been enough irrational changes to the military. Please stop the silliness already!
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Using a thesaurus for the word crew, these were the best options company, corps, crew, squad, team, and troop. However you do have a definition of the word "man": a member of the species Homo sapiens or all the members of this species collectively, without regard to sex. This also includes the plural form "men"
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