With women in combat, taking the 'man' out of job titles

[...] that women will be allowed to serve in all combat jobs, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps are dropping "man" from some of their job titles to make them inclusive and gender-neutral.

Much like the term "fireman" has evolved to "firefighter" and "policeman" to "police officer," an engineman could be called an engine technician and a yeoman could be called an administrative specialist.

Defense Secretary Ash Carter ordered the military in December to open all military jobs to women, including the Marine Corps and special operations forces like Navy SEALs and Army Green Berets.

A corpsman could be called a medic or an emergency medical technician, much like "messman" was previously changed to culinary specialist, he added.

A female yeoman told a senior Navy official that "administrative specialist" would be a better title than yeoman, Mabus said.

The bigger challenge is that the Army will start to train the first female soldiers to serve in the front-line combat branches later this summer, including the infantry, he added.