as in pilot
one who flies or is qualified to fly an aircraft or spacecraft
her father was an airman who was shot down in Vietnam
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If an airman has been napping, the nap is over now.
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Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
Beauchamp, a college student, was last seen leaving a Halloween Party in Sacramento with Travis Air Force Base Airman Juan Parra-Peralta and another airman in the early morning of Oct. 30, 2021.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Slip into the Airmen’s Bar, named after the airmen of the US Army Air Force who flew 185 missions whilst stationed at Lavenham and would regularly hang out here during World War II.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
The latest deadly crash off the coast of Japan in November 2023 left eight airmen dead, including a service member from Massachusetts.
—Brad Dress, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
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Alfredo Sosa, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
Beauchamp, a college student, was last seen leaving a Halloween Party in Sacramento with Travis Air Force Base Airman Juan Parra-Peralta and another airman in the early morning of Oct. 30, 2021.
—Christine Pelisek, People.com, 21 Jan. 2025
Slip into the Airmen’s Bar, named after the airmen of the US Army Air Force who flew 185 missions whilst stationed at Lavenham and would regularly hang out here during World War II.
—Lewis Nunn, Forbes, 20 Jan. 2025
The latest deadly crash off the coast of Japan in November 2023 left eight airmen dead, including a service member from Massachusetts.
—Brad Dress, The Hill, 26 Nov. 2024
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“Airman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airman. Accessed 13 Mar. 2025.
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