First female prospect for Navy SEAL training drops out during selection course

According to an August 6th report from LinkedIn, the first female attempting to enter the Navy’s elite Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training pipeline dropped on request (DOR’d) from the pre-BUD/S selection course known as SEAL Officer Assessment and Selection (SOAS), thus ending her attempt to become a Navy SEAL.  That would seem to indicate that for […]

Navy SEALs to allow female candidates but leadership holds hard on standards

I had several conversations with high ranking Navy SEALs over the weekend, and SOFREP was informed that the current draft pool of SEAL candidates would include women this year. There was also fierce resistance against caving to female quotas delivered from the top down from what we were told about high level discussions that took place […]