First female officer completes rigorous Navy SEAL selection process

A female officer has completed the rigorous initial selection process necessary to become a Navy SEAL officer — the first female to accomplish such a feat. Although the female officer successfully completed the SEAL Officer Assessment and Selection (SOAS) program, she wasn’t chosen by the board because she hadn’t picked the SEAL career field as […]

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 […]