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

We could call 'em the Air Folks.

Well, first combine all branches and special forces (USMC) into one Department of Defense Forces. Then use the term Soldier for all, whether Naval Forces, Air Forces, Marine Forces or Ground Forces. By that, you can eliminate 4 ridiculous redundant acquisition programs, the UCMJ will truly be uniform and the officer ranks, which are the most expensive will take the biggest hit, when redundant staffs and senior officials are eliminated, but enlisted forces would be mostly untouched, thus you could achieve a "PC" goal, by actually accomplishing something of merit by slimming a bloated military leadership and forcing the self-perpetuating military bureaucracy to deal with real reform, instead of fighting over what color our uniforms and boots should be and deal with matters of real importance. SOLDIERS - it's PC......

Who's idea was this? Next thing we will have gender bias oaths.

That is like taking man out of woman when God said he would make man a companion and called her Eve a woman.

What about 'chairmen'...

leave it alone!

Do the same thing as the morons at Ace Hardware and change it to AirFolk! But My real answer is keep it the Same. There's absolutely zero wrong with it as several members have already stated.

Stop with the political correctness. It has no place in the military. For thousands of years all "mankind" etc. has been a generic term for both genders.

Does the Air Force really have this problem? How about concentrating on more important things like national security? I bet they have a safe place to go to also and stress cards in basic. Give me a break.

I've never been particularly "PC." I think it is a nonsense.