...agree..... I wonder why it is taking so long for the U.S. Dept of Defense to mandate changing the rank titles for our troops....Midshippersons at Annapolis; Airpersons for the Air Force; “Every he/she/they/them a rifleperson!!” for the Marines’ Aviation Ordnanceperson for the Navy, and so on....
Those who object to “-man” as a suffix are just showing their ignorance. “Man” comes from the German “mann” and just means “person” or “human.” This is the original, and still current, generic meaning of the word. The original English word for a male was “wer,” which has dropped out of the language except for the two words “werewolf” and “wergeld.”