The First Female Navy SEAL Applicant Has Dropped Out Of SOAS Program

Feminists everywhere were excited that the Navy SEALS began allowing women applicants in January of 2016. It’s been over a year and a half since, and as of July, not one woman had applied.

Then things seemingly “turned around” in July, and everyone was all excited again.

A woman will train with other potential officers this summer in hopes of becoming the first female Navy SEAL.

 

The candidate, a midshipman, and another woman have enlisted as the first female candidates seeking to join the Navy’s special operations teams.

 

The latter is training for the Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman program, or SWCC.

 

These women have already made history, but they still face a long road ahead of training and tests before they officially make the cut.

 

The training is “designed to weed out the weak,” as the Navy special operations training website warns.

Well uh… the “long journey” is over, because she voluntarily quit the program, according to Task and Purpose.

So um…. I guess that de-escalated rather quickly.

The female midshipman, identified by Military.com in July as a ROTC junior at an unnamed U.S. college, was the elite SEAL Officer Assessment and Selection (SOAS) program’s first female entrant since the Department of Defense lifted restrictions on female applicants for combat arms and special operations forces roles in 2016.

 

Had she completed the three-week course, she would have been eligible for review by the NSW officer community manager and officer selection panel in September and, if selected, received orders by October to report to NSW’s grueling 24-week Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training course.

 

“No women have entered the full training pipeline just yet,” a Navy official who declined to be identified told Task & Purpose. “She didn’t make it to BUD/S.”

She completed half of the command’s screening evaluations before she quit. So, about week and a half. I hate to say this….but she didn’t even make it through orientation.

Now, I think women should and can do whatever they want. I also think women need to be aware of the obvious physical differences between us. If a woman is able to throw a 230 pound injured man over her shoulder, under the worst possible circumstances, and run for safety, by all means, she should do it. But if she’s not capable? Then this is not the place for her.

I spend a lot of time with military men, and they all have opinions on women in combat positions. Their main concern: they wouldn’t be able to stop themselves from “saving her” first.

Call them sexists, I know my guys to be gentlemen. If things ever go south, I know I’m in good hands.

Now, I do not have their experience or insight, and so I cannot say what’s right and wrong in this situation. What I CAN say is that I appreciate the obvious fact that the SEALS aren’t willing to push women through for “diversity and inclusion’s” sake.

This is literally life and death, and social justice goals don’t go very far in combat.