42-year-old female lawyer suing to become Navy SEAL

[whitehall]

It's been tried before and failed.

Hollywood cooperated in the lie with a preposterous movie.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

I can't speak for SEALs, but Army Special Forces requires you to max a PT test at age 17 male, and you have to have skills that prepare you for being on a team, which was usually years of being in a qualified MOS. Unless you're an SF Baby. But they have age requirements.

SEALs are different.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

You don't enlist in the Navy to "become" a SEAL. My guess is that it's a publicity stunt or an effort by the left to embarrass the Military.

Yes, you can. If you meet the qualifications.

 

[Mushroom]

Best solution is allow her to go thru BUDs.

They actually can't.

Without any prior service, the absolute cut-off age for joining the military is 40. That is because of multiple US Codes that require anybody who enlists must be able to serve a full 20 years until retirement. And the mandatory retirement age is 60.

For myself, I was able to join the Army at the age of 42. But I had already served 10 years on Active Duty, so my actual cut-off age was 50.

And the claim she was "sworn in" back in 2018 sounds like she had completed an initial enlistment package, but even that makes no sense as the Navy has no record of her. And they would keep records for everybody who had gone as far in the enlistment process to go to MEPS.

Oh, and a DUI in 2020? That's yet another waiver. And in the current era, the military is not really looking for people that need waivers.

Yes, this does indeed sound like a mentally disturbed attention whore.

 

[Mushroom]

You don't enlist in the Navy to "become" a SEAL.

You can join to attempt to become a SEAL. Just like any other contract a person signs to join the military. You can sign a contract to become Airborne, a pilot, Infantry, a member of the band, damned near anything else.

And 99% of the time, if you fail to make the cut you are then reassigned to another MOS "at the needs of the service".

That is one of the fun things when I was in PATRIOT school. A large chunk were actually originally EOD, which is one of the most demanding MOS schools in the military. Fail a single test or hands on exercise, and you are immediately dismissed. And as they already had at least Secret security clearances, they were then sent to train on the PATRIOT missile system. Which also required a Secret clearance and almost the same ASVAB scores.

And if they or somebody else failed the PATRIOT course, they had a solution for that also. There was an 88M school right on the base just for that purpose. So fail out as a PATRIOT operator, you were sent a mile or so away and became a truck driver.

And she sounds like she has been huffing something. In my prime (at about the time she was born), I was also SCUBA certified. Had been in the Infantry for years, ran on average 20+ miles a week and had taken part in several half-marathons. And I was more than aware that I was not good enough to complete the training for the Marine version, Force Recon.

And if she had advanced enough to have been "Sworn In" as she claims, that means she had at a minimum taken the ASVAB, completed her MEPS physical, and talked to a Career Planner who assigned her an MOS and starting school date.

Oh, and had her sign a contract.

Now the Navy says they have no records of her. Which if she had even gone to MEPS or taken the ASVAB they would have records of. And for some reason, I bet dollars to doughnuts that she does not have her enlistment contract.

 

[Mushroom]

I can't speak for SEALs, but Army Special Forces requires you to max a PT test at age 17 male, and you have to have skills that prepare you for being on a team, which was usually years of being in a qualified MOS. Unless you're an SF Baby. But they have age requirements.

For decades now, Recruiters can offer almost any MOS out there, short of Delta.

And I have met a few guys that were "Contract SF". Three of them in fact. The training process is that they go to Benning for OSUT, boot camp and training in 11B (Infantry). Then they are sent to Airborne school, then SF school.

Fail any of the last two, and they get to go back to Benning as Infantrymen. Same with a Marine with a Force Recon contract. GO to MCRD at Diego or Paris Island. Then to Pendleton or LeJeune for training as an 03XX. Then you are sent for Force Recon training. Fail that, and you get sent back to the Fleet as an 03XX (whatever their MOS was, most are 0311 Riflemen).

And there is always a large number of them that simply wash out, who are then used to fill other needs that the branch of service has. That is almost universally part of the contract. Wash out of the school, you are reassigned at the needs of the military.

 

[braalian]

If a 42 year old man isn’t qualified based on his age, what makes a woman of the same age think she has a chance?

 

[mudwhistle]

For decades now, Recruiters can offer almost any MOS out there, short of Delta.

And I have met a few guys that were "Contract SF". Three of them in fact. The training process is that they go to Benning for OSUT, boot camp and training in 11B (Infantry). Then they are sent to Airborne school, then SF school.

Fail any of the last two, and they get to go back to Benning as Infantrymen. Same with a Marine with a Force Recon contract. GO to MCRD at Diego or Paris Island. Then to Pendleton or LeJeune for training as an 03XX. Then you are sent for Force Recon training. Fail that, and you get sent back to the Fleet as an 03XX (whatever their MOS was, most are 0311 Riflemen).

And there is always a large number of them that simply wash out, who are then used to fill other needs that the branch of service has. That is almost universally part of the contract. Wash out of the school, you are reassigned at the needs of the military.

I was a 36L when I volunteered for SF.
I went to selection twice. Some guys I talked to had been there three times.
I made it the second time, mainly because I knew how to prepare for it.
I started the process in 88' and was picked to go to the Q Course in 89'.
I graduated and got my SF Tab in August of 90'.
I was assigned to 5th Special Forces Group while going to Persian-Farsi school.
I was placed on my first team during Desert Storm.
They were going to send me to Saudi Arabia, but cancelled my flight as soon as the ground war started, even though I went thru all of the shots.
At the time I was in my mid-thirties. I was a little old to go thru the course.

 

[mudwhistle]

If a 42 year old man isn’t qualified based on his age, what makes a woman of the same age think she has a chance?

Because of her Democrat privilege.

We have to accept everything they say and do it without any complaints.

Back in the 80s, they pushed a woman thru SF Selection. She couldn't make the rucks, so they just put her on the truck and played make believe with her. Many of the male foreign soldiers that made it thru got the same treatment. They couldn't carry their rucks, so they failed. When failed students went back to the ME some of them got their heads chopped off, so we stopped failing them.

 

[ThisIsMe]

They carry astrological signs in the sand????

Heck yeah! Scorpio is the worst! He likes to pinch you on the nips!

 

[mudwhistle]

Heck yeah! Scorpio is the worst! He likes to pinch you on the nips!

I'm a Scorpio.....and I don't pinch girls unless they ask me too.

 

[San Souci]

MSN

A Long Island-based lawyer who aspires to be the US Navy's "first female SEAL" has sued the naval force, allegedly because it first "delayed" her application and later rejected it as she was "too old."

Amanda S Reynolds told the New York Post, “The opportunity . . . was kind of taken away from me. I would like that to be reinstated. I would just like the outcome to be determined by the merits instead of by some sort of technicality."

She added, “I could have gone to officer candidate school in February, but they delayed my application without reason or cause and then they told me I was too old."

According to court papers, Navy officials first "failed" to advance the application of Reynolds, 41. Then, they told her in the fall she would no longer qualify for Naval Officer Training Command in Newport, Rhode Island, because she would be over the age limit of 42 by the time she graduated.

Maybe she can try to become a Federal criminal investigator next (GS series 1811) with a minimum age of 37.

There are already SCOTUS cases with age restricted limits for certain positions within the Federal Government (be it the civilian workforce or military). She will lose. Her case will get thrown out quickly.

Let her try. No woman could do it.