What would be your gender-neutral alternative to referring to all Air Force members as "airmen"?

Actually MAN used collectively for humans is biologically correct. Hear me out. genetically only men carry the Female X chromosome and the Male Y chromosome. It is the absence or presence of Testosterone that determines sex, Estrogen feminizes males but it does not determine sex. That alone is Testosterone. Women are pure XX. Thus a women cannot be genetically male since the Y is never present. Even in extreme cases of Klinefelter syndrome (XXY) men are feminized but pretty much male. therefore the collective MEN, MAN or MANKIND, SEAMEN, AIRMEN is genetically more accurate when referring to a gathering of Males and Females.

As an old school Army NCO...I wouldn't. The military is no place for this PC crapfest. Women are Wo-MEN and they are Hu-MAN so the term man or men in job or rank titles does not refer to a sex but a person. Lets go ahead and take the "man" out of woman for the PC whiners too! We'll just call females Wo's from now on, how is that? Give me a freaking break! The military, the country has better things to put effort forth on than this mamby pamby waste of time to pander to a PC minority that has no clue or grasp on reality. I can't even believe this is an issue. It's actually embarrassing to me that our military is even entertaining such efforts.

Let me think about that for awhile; how about Airman!

I personally feel that "Airman" or "Airmen" is perfectly suitable. Bigger Fish to Fry such as other practices that are clearly "Discriminative"

Why are idiots always trying to fix something that isn't broke?

As a retired FMF Corpsman...the powers that be can change it, but we will still be known as aCorpsman, especially by our beloved Marines.

ALCON,

This is simply ridiculous, apparently there's nothing important to do in the Navy that they are deciding to loose their time with this nonsense. This "politically correct" problem is the reason why so many people and service members are so irritated with the leadership in the country, and let's make something clear here, "I'm not a Donald Trump fan", all the opposite I can't stand him! but this problem (yes the "politically correct" syndrome is a problem) is what's making hundred of thousands of Americans irritated with the way of thinking (and it's giving Mr. Trump fuel to be the demagogue he is) that is forcing the Armed Forces become a social club instead of simply focusing on being the line of defense of our nation and the guardian of our national interest on the globe. Let's leave as a military community things that has no impact on our performance on the battlefield and focus on better training, accountability, better equipment (by the way good luck with that F-35 because you Navy, AF, and Marine guys will need it, as a matter of fact if you only gave the attention to selecting a good aircraft instead of loosing time changing any title that has a "man" in it...), selection of candidates that enter the armed forces, and results instead of this waste of time. Last, let's leave policy to the politicians and resume on being warriors. Thanks.

V/R

SGT Rivera

And God saw there perversion, referring to Sodom and Gomorrah, so he told lot to leave, then rain of fire poured from the heavens and Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed. Has this homosexuality movement gone this far? Personally I think it is ridiculous. But if it needs to be done to conform to the wishes of the perverse the Air person or corps-person would suffice. In my history class this past week we have studied the Red Scare, back then homos and transgenders were rounded up because it was considered that they were a threat to our nations security In Muslim dominated countries they were put to death even still today.

How about not over thinking it and just boil it down to the branch of service one is referring too. Such as Air Force might be Air Corp, Marine Corp-Marine, Army, Navy or Marines (could also be differentiated by job title- i.e. Armor, Intel, Mechanic, Infantry), similar in approach to how all actors moved toward just being called actors rather than actress and male actor.

The trend in the 501 comments is not to change the title. Most of those are from women.