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To: C19fan

We use to joke about this when I was on active duty more than 20 years ago. We made a list of terms that would have to change:

Cockpit - Pilot Workstation
Airman - Air Person

etc.


6 posted on 01/21/2016 11:17:40 AM PST by mbynack (Retired USAF SMSgt)
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To: mbynack

They skirted the issue [pun intended] by dropping entirely my rating, one of the oldest in the Navy, of Radioman. No more sparky. It’s some kind of technician now, a linguistic castrati.


13 posted on 01/21/2016 11:39:04 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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