The U.S. military is changing, in terms of giving more roles to other genders, women, and recently transgenders. Since opening combat roles to women, they are making sure that when they start filling in the positions made available to them, they can feel comfortable and ready to take the responsibilities, all in the name of making the services gender neutral.

For the U.S. Marine Corps, it is also about changing the titles of job positions. According to the Marine Corps Times, 19 job titles from military occupational specialities (MOS) will have “man” scrubbed off from them. This is a result of a study made by Navy Secretary Ray Mabus.

So in changing these job titles, the “man” is simply replaced by “Marine” and here are some of the titles reflecting the change:

• Basic infantry Marine
• Riverine assault craft Marine
• Light-armor vehicle Marine
• Reconnaissance Marine (to include three other recon-related jobs that include the word "man")
• Infantry assault Marine
• Basic field artillery Marine
• Field artillery fire control Marine
• Field artillery sensor support Marine
• Fire support Marine
• Basic engineer, construction and equipment Marine
• Basic tank and assault amphibious vehicle Marine
• Armor Marine
• Amphibious assault vehicle Marine
• Amphibious combat vehicle Marine

The only job title that is said not to carry “Marine” is the anti-tank missile man, in this case “man is replaced as “gunner.” There will still be other job titles that will retain the word “man” because the word does not describe a marine doing the job.

As for “rifleman”and “infantry man”, these roles will still retain “man” as these “are steeped in Marine Corps history and ethos.”

Mother Jones have asked other branches in the military if they are planning to do the same and so far the Army and Air Force do not have plans yet to make changes to their job titles.