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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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To: lowbridge
I served in the United States Air Force for 24 years and retired in 2014. You have no idea how happy I am no longer in. We may never recover from this politically correct BS.

So are the getting rid of Airman and Airmen as well?
21 posted on 06/09/2016 5:37:59 PM PDT by An American in Turkiye
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To: lowbridge

This is right up there with changing the REDSKIN’S name. The only people who were offended about the name were the Dumb-o-crats, media, and other morons with nothing better to do. The Indians (oops, can I say that?) were NOT offended by it.

This crap inflicted on the military is more of the same.


22 posted on 06/09/2016 5:40:28 PM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: An American in Turkiye

Commies kept the Balkans and the other soviets down for 75 years but they came back. Gotta have our own baptism of fire I guess. Next war’s comin’ home.


23 posted on 06/09/2016 5:43:13 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: lowbridge

So we replace ‘man’ with ‘primate’????

It would raise the intelligence level.


24 posted on 06/09/2016 5:44:47 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: lowbridge

Well I sure hope they come up with a dumbass alternative for “woman”.

Cause you cant have man in the woman title anymore.


25 posted on 06/09/2016 5:45:37 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SkyDancer

sailor
= = =

Probably a masculine ending.

Need Sailette.


26 posted on 06/09/2016 5:46:14 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (As always, /s is implicitly assumed. Unless explicitly labled /not s. Saves keystrokes.)
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To: lowbridge

Thempowers that be are really trying to balkanize us so that we cant join up and deal with them the way they ought to be.


27 posted on 06/09/2016 5:47:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Graybeard58

No. Just ‘corpses’ to wherever the politicians and their minions in this current, disgraceful ‘brass’ decide to send them.


28 posted on 06/09/2016 5:52:31 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: Graybeard58

No. Just ‘corpses’ to wherever the politicians and their minions in this current, disgraceful ‘brass’ decide to send them.


29 posted on 06/09/2016 5:52:52 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (<<<<<<< he no longer IS my 'teddy bear'.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

wymyn


30 posted on 06/09/2016 5:53:32 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: lowbridge

General Officers may be referred to as “Top” or “Bottom” as required.


31 posted on 06/09/2016 5:55:41 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba ( Evil preaches tolerance until it is dominant, then it tries to silence good.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego
You mean they're making a**** of us. You bet.

I'm still trying to figure out how Prohibition got to be a Constitutional amendment.

Smoking is the other womens issue. Guns is a newer issue.

All these intended to clean up "men" and save lives.

But women have an "exclusive" right to kill babies? Are we stupid or what.

32 posted on 06/09/2016 6:00:07 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Scrambler Bob

Too feminine.


33 posted on 06/09/2016 6:02:31 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: CivilWarBrewing
Feminism destroyed the world.

Don't worry, the leftists are busy dismantling feminism. Women are being marginalized by the new fad of pretending that men who claim to be women actually are women. In any endeavor where men are better than women (usually that intense physical stuff), real women need not apply. Trannies will take their place.

34 posted on 06/09/2016 6:03:53 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: ichabod1

Yah, but .... look how many words begin with ‘men’ - there’s like 148 of them, then there’s names that begin with ‘man’ like 406 of them. Looks like the military has their work cut out for them.


35 posted on 06/09/2016 6:07:21 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: lowbridge

Well, naval gazing is cheaper than building ships and artillery


36 posted on 06/09/2016 6:12:28 PM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: atc23

I was an Engineman on diesel submarines for twenty years. I am not an Engineperson although I like engines and machinery. I guess that makes me an Engine Person, however.
I sure wouldn’t expect women Enginemen to change to Enginettes.
What about Fireman or Seaman or Airman?
Too much PC. Glad I retired.


37 posted on 06/09/2016 6:23:36 PM PDT by encm(ss) (Diesel Boats Forever!)
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To: lowbridge

The de-balling of the once mighty American military continues literally.


38 posted on 06/09/2016 6:30:32 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: lowbridge

This is like Woolsey’s push to have the Dept. of Defense , formerly the Dept. of War, changed to the Department of Peace.


39 posted on 06/09/2016 6:43:41 PM PDT by rey
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To: lowbridge

Such morons! The suffix “man” in these titles means “person”.

Will they next demand that the word “woman” be changed to “woperson”?


40 posted on 06/09/2016 6:50:51 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Keep calm and Pray on.)
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