First woman enlists to become a Navy SEAL

[IronLionZion]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/21/us/first-female-navy-candidates-seal-trnd/index.html

(CNN)A woman will train with other potential officers this summer in hopes of becoming the first female Navy SEAL.

The candidate, a midshipman, and another woman have enlisted as the first female candidates seeking to join the Navy's special operations teams.

The latter is training for the Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman program, or SWCC.

These women have already made history, but they still face a long road ahead of training and tests before they officially make the cut.

Women weren't allowed to serve in combat roles, including special operation forces such as the SEALs and SWCC, until January 2016. But there were no female applicants in the 18 months since that historic change until now.

The candidates' identities and training progress are confidential to protect their personal security and "career viability as future special operator," Lt. Cmdr. Mark Walton, a spokesman for Naval Special Warfare Command, told CNN.

Good luck soldier!

This is real life GI Jane

I hope Trump doesn't reverse this Obama era reform.

[lindysalsagal]

1. Wow. They're going to do everything they can to stop her and make

an example of her. I hope she is strong enough mentally for it all.

[IronLionZion]

2. It's pretty rough to be one who breaks barriers

and go where some assholes don't want you to go.

She probably knows what she was getting into and prepared mentally for years for this opportunity.

They opened it to women 18 months ago but no one applied to join until now.

[Aristus]

3. I'm not looking forward to seeing this announcement on Facebook.

There will be hundreds and hundreds of comments consisting entirely of howls of outrage about "POLITICAL CORRECTNESS RUN AMOK!!!1!1! THERE GOES THE MILITARY!!1! IT'S ALL OVER, FOLKS!!!11!"

The people who post these things are exactly who you think they are.

[gratuitous]

4. It's been a rough week for MRAs

First Dr. Who, now the SEALs. They're gonna need to retreat to their safest of safe places.

[JHan]

10. Yep rough week for the broflakes, you also made me LOL

[Aristus]

13. 'Broflakes'.

I like it!

[JHan]

14. Haha it's good isn't it, I can't claim ownership..read it on Twitter

And here first lol

[IronLionZion]

5. It might depend on their individual level of hate

I posted a news story about the Muslim world's first woman fighter pilot bombing ISIS on Facebook and several Trumpers expressed support with no haters.

[Aristus]

6. As a former Army tank crewman, I subscribe to a number of Facebook pages for tankers.

When a female Army lieutenant was recently assigned as a tank platoon leader, these same Facebook pages nearly burst into flames from the heat of the hatred expressed in them.

All of the talk about tankers being a brotherhood went out the window. Some of these no doubt MRA-types speculated on what sort of sexual favors she had to perform to get the assignment. A number of them spewed nonsense about the Army having to lower its standards in order to make the 'politically correct' assignment.

I was not proud to be a tanker that day. We should have been expressing pride that this tough, dedicated woman had made American history (women served as tankers in WWII Soviet Russia, and have served in the Israeli Defense Force for decades...). Instead, a bunch of butt-hurt, insecure, 'alpha-dog wanna-bees' went berserk.

[AngryAmish]

8. Facebook is cancer. Leave it.

[sarge43]

11. Same song, different verse. Just a little bit louder and just as worse.

You should have heard it when the Air Force opened the "non-traditional" career fields to women. We're all gonna die!! Of course, the fact that women were filling the non-trad jobs during WWII and we somehow managed to win that one never came up.

The butt hurt could have filled up Wilford Hall Med Center and the Brooks Burn Unit. Now there's all female air and ground crews, etc and the Balloon Corps is still flyin', fightin' and fuckin' around.

[Corgigal]

7. When I was in the USAF

in the late 80s, I was the only female in a 15 man ATC facility. The facility just failed out two women, and in I walked. I was just a young woman and really had no clue on what crap was going to be throw at me. The scary part, I think it was better for us because men didn't see us as a threat yet. I survived and stuck in the USAF for 8 years.

Man, I hope this young woman makes it. It would be a smart national security issue to have women in spots that the enemy isn't aware they are hiding. I just hope her American red blood boys don't think it's about them. Time will tell.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. GET IT.

[Dawson Leery]

12. Could get ugly.

The most right wing sector of the military.

[IronLionZion]

15. G.I. Jane - Greatest Scene

A wild animal doesn't feel sorry for itself