Posted on May 20, 2016
Marines weigh stripping the word 'man' from all job titles
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"Initially, a Navy official told Marine Corps Times that Mabus didn't intend to change iconic titles like "infantryman," "rifleman" or "midshipman." Instead, the official said, he only wanted titles to change if the word "man" stood alone as a separate word, like reconnaissance man or field artillery sensor support man.
But a Marine official with knowledge of the review said "every single" title, billet and job description is being looked at."
Seems Secretary Mabus is changing his mind again.
But a Marine official with knowledge of the review said "every single" title, billet and job description is being looked at."
Seems Secretary Mabus is changing his mind again.
Marines weigh stripping the word 'man' from all job titles
Posted from marinecorpstimes.com
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I know lets change almost 250 years of washed in blood tradition because somebody's feelings are hurt about a word..... Besides isn't the term Marine, Soldier, Salior Gender neutral, so that just makes the Air Force gender inequal.....I am just saying.
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I always thought terms that end in man were gender neutral. Woman and man both end in man.
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SSgt GG-15 RET Jim Lint
I remember when regulations and FM said that the use of Man was inclusive of male and female. Never seemed like something to worry about. We had some good women in the USMC who worried about USMC and not their feelings.
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Read that they would substitute with “Marine” and that would solve the prob.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst some how rifle Marine doesn't have the same ring to it but I think it would work for most others Ordnance Marine, Artilary Marine, Assault Marine yes that would work.
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SSgt Boyd Herrst
I can understand that but they get to quantify satisfying those p.c. Pantywaists that want the change. I’d rather leave it the hell alone and tell then go shove a howitzer up their exhaust pipes, Cpl. Frank W.
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I have no idea what he is thinking. I always thought terms like Rifleman, Chairman, and others were gender neutral because both man and woman end in man.
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