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From what I hear, the first Navy female midshipman is also heading to pre-BUDs (pre-SEAL training and selection) soon. Will wonders never cease, even in Navy special warfare?
In addition to the female midshipman in SEAL Officer Assessment and Selection there is an enlisted female Special Warfare Combatant Crewman candidate in the training pipeline.
We will see if they make it through these selections. Times are a bit different then when President Obama was scheduled to attend the graduation of the first females to go through Ranger training even before they began to the patrolling package (and by first hand accounts, they both failed it miserably resulting in what would have been fratricide if it was a live fire or real world event or normally failing that section and at a minimum getting recycled to a later class, and yet they passed.)
I hope the Navy's SEAL/SWCC cadre have a greater sense of integrity than those running the Ranger School.
Yeah, I heard that the female Soldiers (including that Reserve officer with three kids...and how she made it through Ranger school without the Army 'normalizing' standards is a mystery to most) performed very poorly during the patrol package. I think it's safe to say that they won't be winning the annual Best Ranger competition anytime soon.
As far as BUD/S-SEAL and Navy special warfare goes, I don't know. I think that Navy Special Warfare has made it clear that they're not 'normalizing' (or lowering) the physical fitness and BUD/S training standards for women candidates, but you know how that goes once the rubber meets the road. We'll see, I guess.
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