The First Woman Has Made it Through SEAL Officer Screening

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The First Woman Has Made it Through SEAL Officer Screening

Although we already know standards are lower these days. But she didn't elect to attempt Bud/s.

The Navy marked a first earlier this year when a woman completed Navy SEAL officer assessment and selection, Military.com has learned.

At the quarterly meeting of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services in December, a Navy official disclosed that the woman had reached the end of the physically and mentally demanding two-week SOAS process in September. Ultimately, however, she was not selected for a SEAL contract, officials said.


While the military formally opened SEAL billets -- and all other previously closed jobs -- to women in 2016, no woman has yet made it to the infamous 24-week Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training to date. If the woman had been selected for a SEAL contract at the end of SOAS, she would have been the first to reach BUD/S.

Capt. Tamara Lawrence, a spokeswoman for Naval Special Warfare, said the candidate had not listed the SEALs as her top-choice warfighting community. She was awarded placement in her top choice, Lawrence said.

"We do not discuss details of a candidate's non-selection so it does not interfere with their successful service in other warfighter communities," she said.

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Good for her, if she made it through with the same requirements as the males, I have nothing less than total respect for her. I am not against women being in any position, I am totally against lowering the requirements and qualifications to allow them to make it