Comments on: Female Navy SEALs? Only In Hollywood!

By: Margarita

Margarita — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:12:20 +0000

Yes, women can do a lot of things, even survive some weeks of BUDs but even if the comment does not sound too good to fellow women advocates, I have spent 24 hours in a Navy Seal Challenge accepting civilians and future SOF recruits just to see how it feels withut watering down the evolutions and my experience -that was very good, although strenous- showed me that no matter the mental fitness and the resilience, even the will to go along them as one more with no privileges sharing the barracks, the showers and the toilets, it comes to a point that the crude carreer of a SOF is a man´s thing. I advocate to the first phase of BUDs as a prime character builder where even civilians of both sexes can benefit greatly from it, but that is one thing and other to place a young woman 18 to 30 in a career of dealing with the very worst in the world on daily basis. Having a taste of that environment and enjoying the military atmosphere I still think is not a good idea. Would be wasting her. Men emotionally can overcome and survive better than women under mayhem conditions. GI Jane and G Force are enjoyable, but fiction.

By: maricel1988

maricel1988 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:58 +0000

if a girl can pass the test then let her in. there have been arguments based on hygien issues and sexual tension. on hygien issues, women wish for seperate showers and toliets. but if you want to become a navy seal you have act like one! also there have been arguments based on sexual tension. im sure that the men and women who are motivated enough sex would be last thing on their minds.

By: maricel1988

maricel1988 — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:34:16 +0000

if a woman can pass the test then let her in. there have been arguments that if women were allowed to join the navy seals that it would slow down the program. this includes hygen issues, sexual tension.. etc. also men are afraid that if women where excepted in the program that men will take risks saving a woman then a man. hygen issues; women still wish for seperate showers and latrines. i believe that if women wish to be in the program they have to act like a seal… so pretty much become a guy and suck it up. sexual tension, there have been arguments that if women were in the program that it would cause sexual tension between the men and the women. but i’m sure that if they are well focused and motivated enough to complete the training then sex would be last on their minds. but yea, if women can pass the test,and have the physically and mentally strenth then let them in.

By: Mandy

Mandy — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:37:14 +0000

“However, there has never been a woman who could pass the strenuous physical aspects of Navy SEAL training. In fact, there has never been a woman who has qualified to even be considered to enter BUD/S Training.”

How could this statement even be true if women aren’t allowed to try? It’s not like the Navy could let them.

There are women out there who can – and have – passed the qual test.

In the BUD/S prep school in Annapolis, there are female instructors who pt the BUD/S students every day who can pass the BUD/S prep test with their eyes closed.
There are also female Olympians who have been invited to the Nval Special Warfare Center who have put many men to shame with their times.
Women at the SEAL Fitness Challenge have also passed with excellent times. You shouldn’t want to take away from any of their accomplishments.

Please don’t make it sound like the training is so hard, only a man could ever do it. The training is meant to be tough, that’s why there are so few SEALs. But it’s tough – not impossible.

Yes it is true women cannot be SEAL/S. What is NOT true is the reason they can’t is becuase they aren’t capable.

By: Brittany J.

Brittany J. — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 03:55:53 +0000

I say that if a woman can pass all the tests and show just as much promise as a man, yes let them in. But this all depends on if they can make it. No special treatment, and if they’re incompitent they can’t join.

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By: Captain America

Captain America — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 07:51:40 +0000

Never gonna happen. This isn’t some politically correct cookie cutter organization we’re talking about. This is the Navy SEAL’s. And there is no place in the Navy SEAL’s for people (in this case, women) who can’t actually perform the job, because including them would not only endanger their lives, but the lives of the other members of the SEAL team, and possibly more beyond, depending on what the repercussions of the mission failure are.

That there are people pushing for this solely based on politics, with no regard whatsoever for the real world implications, is absolutely disgraceful. They should give a thought as to the lives they’d be putting in peril, rather than the supposed “unfairness” of women being unable to serve in the SEAL’s. This is America, after all, where you’re supposed to achieve something because you EARN it, and not because some busybody somewhere believes we need to fill gender/racial/ethnic quotas.

By: Son of Liberty

Son of Liberty — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 04:29:15 +0000

If women want to become SEALs, I say let them, but they’re not getting any special treatment. They bunk with the guys, train with the guys, eat with the guys, and shower with the guys if they want to fight alongside the guys.
The enemy doesn’t give handicaps because you’re a woman. If you want to be a SEAL, you are a SEAL, not a male SEAL, not a female SEAL, and you will be expected to act like a SEAL.
There’s no silver medal in a life-or-death fight – only the winner and the corpse.