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Military Removing 'Man' From Job Titles, Citing Gender Equality
Townhall ^ | June 9, 2016 | Justin Holcomb

Posted on 06/09/2016 5:07:52 PM PDT by lowbridge

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are getting a progressive make-over. The word 'man' will be dropped from each job and rating description to make them inclusive and gender-neutral.

Long gone are the days of ordnanceman, corpsman, or naval aircrewman- the new rating could be called ordinance person, health assistant, and aircrew assistant.

"This is one more step in how our force has changed," Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said in an interview Friday. "Our force has evolved, our force is different. And I believe it's stronger and better."

"It's time for us to let go of telling women, 'You're just included. We don't call you out by sex, but just know you're part of mankind,'" said Lory Manning, a senior fellow at the Service Women's Action Network. "When you hear that 'man' at the end, the image is a male image."

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1 posted on 06/09/2016 5:07:52 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

No more corpsemen?


2 posted on 06/09/2016 5:09:27 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Crooked Hillary's going down and I aint talkin about, on Huma.)
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To: lowbridge

That’s been going on for awhile. In government and construction, the head guy used to be called the foreman. Now they are “lead workers”.


3 posted on 06/09/2016 5:10:21 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: Graybeard58

Man the guns! I mean person the guns or something.


4 posted on 06/09/2016 5:10:24 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Crooked Hillary's going down and I aint talkin about, on Huma.)
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To: lowbridge
Long gone are the days of ordnanceman, corpsman, or naval aircrewman- the new rating could be called ordinance person, health assistant, and aircrew assistant.

"Health assistant up!" Yeah, that's great.

5 posted on 06/09/2016 5:10:59 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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6 posted on 06/09/2016 5:11:15 PM PDT by ghosthost
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To: lowbridge
Military Removing 'Man' From Job Titles, Citing Gender Equality

MEGA BARF!!!

7 posted on 06/09/2016 5:11:16 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: shelterguy

I worked in a factory, the women line bosses were called foremen and nobody objected.


8 posted on 06/09/2016 5:12:23 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (Crooked Hillary's going down and I aint talkin about, on Huma.)
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To: lowbridge

Isn’t it just possible that we are taking women’s lib too far???


9 posted on 06/09/2016 5:12:57 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: lowbridge

I am so glad that I got out when I did.


10 posted on 06/09/2016 5:13:53 PM PDT by NRx
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To: lowbridge

Can’t use seaperson instead of seaman since it end in ‘son which is male. I guess sailor still works.


11 posted on 06/09/2016 5:14:18 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: lowbridge

The idea is to fill the military with perverts and degenerates who will gladly follow orders to fire on citizens.


12 posted on 06/09/2016 5:15:37 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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Whatta bunch of libtard PC crap!
I am a Boatswain’s Mate.
You know how hard it is for landlubbers to even correctly pronounce the word, “Boatswain?”
Now, they have to figure out how to say the title, “Boatswainperson’s Mate???”

I need a drink.


13 posted on 06/09/2016 5:16:11 PM PDT by RandallFlagg (Vote for your guns!)
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To: Graybeard58
I worked in a factory, the women line bosses were called foremen and nobody objected.

No real, NORMAL person cares. This is all a problem in the minds of liberals. The rest of America couldn't care less.

14 posted on 06/09/2016 5:22:32 PM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Graybeard58

Somehow, an impassioned call for “Health assistant up!” in the midst of a firefight just doesn’t have the right ring to it.

(*&^&$*# IDIOTS!)


15 posted on 06/09/2016 5:22:39 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: lowbridge

Another liberal power play. First world problem.

No matter what the bureaucrats say, in your everyday lives, call them seamen and corpsmen. If you get corrected, roll your eyes and use your term again.

Someday when the SHTF in whatever form it does, all this will be forgotten.


16 posted on 06/09/2016 5:23:00 PM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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So, the Marine’s 0311 rifleman is what?

Riflehominid?

This is my rifle
This is my gun
This is for fighting.
This is for fun.

Change that, you pusillanimous maggots.


17 posted on 06/09/2016 5:23:54 PM PDT by sergeantdave ( If not you, who? If not now, when?)
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To: lowbridge

Feminism destroyed the world. Who’s raising the kids? THE SCHOOLS! And people wonder why so many young people support Bernie-the-Communist. If he were Republican they’d call him an ‘old fart’ and an ESTABLISHMENT relic of the past.


18 posted on 06/09/2016 5:24:37 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: CivilWarBrewing
I hereby rename the following:

MENopause becomes WOMEN-OPAUSE

MENstruation becomes WOMEN-STRUATION

What does HIStory become?

19 posted on 06/09/2016 5:28:41 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Females DESTROYED America.)
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To: SkyDancer

I never thought about that. You can’t call someone a person without calling them a son. Tee hee hee.


20 posted on 06/09/2016 5:33:58 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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