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

I think we should call them Skywalkers.

Please keep it as airman. I thought nothing of it when I was in being called an airman. It flows well.

Personally, I find such politically motivated political correctness to be a complete waste of time and resources at a time when our military capability is being deeply eroded and our standing in the world has been severely diminished.

Wouldn't change it all and if the AF is actually wasting resources to study this, it is a total waste of taxpayer money.

There is an appropriate term in Spanish that is perfect for this scenario and those in the Air Force who entertain this type of PC BS: "Cabron"

Let's keep shifting with the political correctness and watch our country and it's military waste away. 'Man'kind is doomed if we continue with this crap.

In most languages around the world spanish ,being a great example, if they're speaking about a group they are referred by the male dominant form as this is proper. Just because they're referred to airmen doesn't make it gender specific we all served with pride. I say cut the political correctness bs out of the military it makes us weaker as a whole. We always say across every branch that we are the greatest military in the world I say let's act like it and stop worrying about this petty nonsense of trying to be politically correct.

I'm in the "leave it alone" camp. Sometimes we can get too wrapped around long-established English language, when the important thing is seeing to the reality on the ground (or in the air, or on the water...). I am also not a fan of printing or saying "he or she" "his or her" etc. when it is patently obvious that both genders are intended.

When did it become a RIGHT not to be offended? Service to our country is voluntary. Should we give up hundreds of years of tradition to appease a small minority who have never served and will never serve anything but their own self interests? And to those of you who do serve, you knew the names and traditions before you joined and chose to join anyway. Does one join the "Knights of Columbus" club and then insist they change the name because "Knights" were Nobel-MEN solders, or that the name "Columbus" is associated with a man that some consider to have been a slaver and a cruel dictator in the Caribbean? And what's next? Do we tell people that have the word "man" or "men" in their name that they have to change their family name to be gender neutral? I've read all seven articles of our Constitution, all 27 amendments to our Constitution, and I've read the 85 articles of The Federalist Papers. Nowhere in any of my research have I found even one mention of a persons right not to be offended.

I was a Ships Service"man" in the Navy. The women in my A school class had no problem. It's a job title, not an identity. It's high time people in this country to worry more about the country itself than feelings