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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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CPT Dave Brest
How do the female service or vets on this forum feel about it? Do THEY find it offensive, or has it just raised the ire of the "pc" crowd?
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While Airman (or Seaman for the navy) is perfectly fine and includes all (as in MANkind, which is short from huMANkind.
I would also suggest Aviator, just because it sounds cool and kick-ass in the same way that soldier is better than armyman and marine is cooler than rifleman.
I would also suggest Aviator, just because it sounds cool and kick-ass in the same way that soldier is better than armyman and marine is cooler than rifleman.
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It should be left as is. If the rank and the MOS title originally has man in it then it should stay. Have to remember that men found the military. This Political Correctness is for the birds and a bunch of B.S. and when one changes things it cost a lot of money to rewrite everything to make reference to the change. So every Job Description, Regulation, Policy, Rules, The UCMJ and etc. will have to be rewritten.
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I would suggest they leave it alone and the military toughen up. It is not refering to calling anyone a man it is a title, dont take this the wrong way but people are getting to soft and we need to go back to the old military.
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How about "AirTechs". The Air Force is widely held to be a highly technical branch and many of the jobs are specialist jobs that could rate the term "technician". AirTech would be a simple term with the same syllable count as the current term, which is an important consideration for adoption for widespread use. Further, I'd suggest the initial enlisted ranks be changed to the term to help facilitate such a change. One potential side benefit is that junior enlisted may find increased morale and pride in the new rank titles. Who knows, the Navy may even take note. :-)
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I would suggest toughening up, sucking it up and driving on. It's a job title and has nothing to do with the individual performing the mission. The mission is what's important, not the title. We can twist, manipulate, and batter the English language into submission in an attempt to make it innocuous and inoffensive to all but we'll just end up communicating by grunts and clicks.......and somebody will still get butt hurt over those.
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