Just a curiosity question: In today's armed forces, are women officers addressed as Ma'am or Sir?
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Just a curiosity question: In today's armed forces, are women officers addressed as Ma'am or Sir?
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Think it's still Ma'am or...their rank. Commander, Lt, Capt, Ensign. Not sure about other services. I have been out since 95.Originally Posted by Abbey
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Last edited by aboutime; 09-25-2017 at 08:53 PM.
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Ma'am for ground and air forces. We almost never call commissioned officers by their rank alone, except for Lieutenants - we call them "LT" a lot. But we see so few LTs in my line of work.
The navy is weird so I dunno.
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I wonder if this will change too.
What got me thinking was a silly Star Trek parody where they addressed a female senior officer as Sir. Not exactly a source of good info, but in our crazy gender-neutral country, I can see this happening.
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“Unfortunately, the truth is now whatever the media say it is”
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May have had old roots actually - google cant decide.
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Recorded it, it haven't watched it yet. It's good?
The parody is called The Orville. Mildly funny...
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-Abbey
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The Navy is easy. Ma'am or sir for officers, or you can address them by rank. LOL, I forgot about being a troop when you actually called Lts anything other than dumbass. We hardly ever saw 2ndLts. They were always on shit details
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Last Cutter I was stationed on back in 95 was the USCGC Northland. We had a female Cmdr as the Engineering Officer and we addressed her as Ma'am.
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The correct term is now, "Ze." You're welcome.
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