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

what gender neutral term are we gonna use in place of "Mission" since it has the word "miss" in it???

My gender-neutral alternative would be to get rid of Ash Carter. That would benefit servicemembers of both genders.

Here's what I've always thought of when hearing the term "Airman" - this quote from No Time For Sergeants (1958):

Ben: You know what they call men in the Air Force?
Air man! Like somethin' out of a dang funny book! Air man! How you gonna like it when somebody calls you "Air man"?
Will: By dog, I just don't think I'll stand for it.

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I can't think of much more calculated to create division than making a big deal of of "gender neutrality".

Good thing I'm not president. I'd fire ediots that wasted money to look at changing ranks and titles to make gender neutral. What a stupid waste of money and time. I understand changes made when women started serving on ships. Cant say I like all of the changes but I do understand. The Shellback ceremony was rough if you was a guy. I cant imagine how bad it would be for a woman with sailors that carried things too far. We wore our uniform inside out and backwards and what you didn't eat for breakfast you wore down your shirt and I could see that as a problem for women.

Why does the military feel they need to cater to these liberal, politically correct, morons. This is the military, when you sign up, you are not your own property, you belong to uncle Sam. You knew the names and ranks of the branch of service you signed up for, so accept it, you know that liberal thing called acceptance? The Liberal thinking has caused so much damage to our society by their appeasement thinking which they are finding out through other studies how they are weakening the genders. There are women who will fight along side men, and in a situation, why confuse fellow soldiers with a too long hyphenated politically correct label to get their fellow soldier's attention? This is another attempt at the globalist theory to make everyone equal, it won't work, and our fighting ability will suffer

I am getting tired of all this Gender, Sexuality Stuff. The problem is that those that believe in these things have to push it on us. I really liked the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Policy. It does not bother me as long as I am unaware of it. Why do they have to make me agree with them. We need to delete this post and get rid of the issue all together. Go back to the way it was. That is a private issue between the person and his or her partner. I don't tell you about my sex life with my wife! Why should I have to hear that you are doing something different!

Political correctness run amok.....

Bring back Buck Sergeant and Warrant Officer instead of dicking around with the PC Airmen shit.

This PC crap has gone way too far, time to just nip it, and get back to being a military. Are we going to fight the enemy or each other?

I know, how about we just drop the term "woman", "lady", or "female" from our vocabulary, and just call everyone "Man".

Wait, no good? Why? Is it because we aren't recognizing women anymore? Or maybe it's because in our push to boost the downtrodden we're simply switching sides, changing the names of what we all know to be true, and changing whom we choose to put down and marginalize. The subtle mentality that "men are tough, and can take the malignment of being emasculated better than women" has snuck in here. It is every bit as sexist and more-so than the gender-descriptive "Airman" or "Seaman". We are not improving the culture, society, or species by this faddish mockery of "sensitivity".

Men are men, women are women. No one misunderstands that when you say "Airman" (or, in my experience, "Seaman"), you can be referring to either gender. Nobody misunderstands this. The military must communicate, and it must do so in as efficient a way as possible. to change everything we say to a new modality just to accommodate a sensitive minority adds confusion and is a distraction to the business of defending our country. it is the antithesis of efficiency. It has nothing to do with military strength, fitness, or readiness, and is therefore a side-issue to keep unnecessary senior personnel busy.

If this is what our leaders are thinking about in their pretty offices, I have no faith that they still remember how to provide tactically superior leadership in battle. They've become accustomed to a life of comparative ease and will fail us when someone punches us in the mouth.