Posted on 07/20/2017 5:04:58 PM PDT by HLPhat
More than a year after a mandate for the Pentagon opened previously closed ground combat and special operations jobs to women, officials say the Navy has its first female candidates for its most elite special warfare roles.
Two women were in boot camp as candidates for the Navy's all-enlisted Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman program, Naval Special Warfare Center Deputy Commander Capt. Christian Dunbar told members of the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Service in June.
Another woman, who sources say is a junior in an ROTC program at an unnamed college, has applied for a spot in the SEAL officer selection process for fiscal 2018, which begins Oct. 1, and is set to complete an early step in the pipeline, special operations assessment and selection, later this summer, he said.
"That's a three-week block of instruction," Dunbar said. "Then the [prospective SEAL officer] will compete like everyone else, 160 [applicants] for only 100 spots."
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7 to 14 days max.
The kind of boats that surrendered to the Iranians?
Yeah. That ends well...
Congress is as much to blame as anyone for this.
Put women in the nfl too. Why not?
There's the answer flat out.
You just know that any of the “females” who graduate will be transsexuals. LOL. Putting the mentally ill into such a position really fits into ongoing and perpetual LIB lunacy.
Another woman, who sources say is a junior in an ROTC program at an unnamed college, has applied for a spot in the SEAL officer selection process for fiscal 2018, which begins Oct. 1
Agree, agree, agree
My son got through 24 yrs of the SEAL screener at the Academy and dropped when he couldn’t keep up with the pushups and was dragging on his boatmates. He’s no flake. Chickie has no chance unless they move the goalposts.
24 hrs
they see too many hollywood movies with waif women and mary janes doing real world impossible things.
He had no problem at Camp Leatherneck.
That pretty much describes every specops guy I have known. The military teaches them... no beats discipline into them. If your kid is an XYY, only a few routes. Pro sports specops or Swat.
And when these women fail the standards will be lowered, and they will be allowed to try again. Disgusting.
There are very healthy, strong, well conditioned and athletic men who are simply driven into the ground and have to withdraw from SEAL training because they become physically incapacitated.
Doubtful many women will pass the course.
South Africa has a few elite units that accept all comers,including women, who qualify for training.
They have never had a woman pass the course because they do not lower standards and women just can’t make it.
Let me know when they have the first one that earned it.
Only about 50% of males make it through ranger school.
So far, the rate for women is maybe 10% and it took them three tries to graduate if I remember correctly.
>> If your kid is an XYY, only a few routes. Pro sports specops or Swat.
Or the prison colony on Fiorina “Fury” 161.
dear God, please make it stop...
It’s possible, however, that the first female member of these elite communities will come not from the outside, but from within. In October, a SWCC petty officer notified their chain-of-command that *****they identified as being transgender*****, Salata confirmed to Military.com.
According to Navy policy guidance released last fall, a sailor must receive a doctor’s diagnosis of medical necessity and command approval to begin the gender transition process, which can take a variety of different forms, from counseling and hormone therapy to surgery. Sailors must also prove they can pass the physical standards and requirements of the gender to which they are transitioning.
Yep.
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