1st Female Sailor completes USN Special Warfare Training

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1st Female Sailor completes USN Special Warfare Training

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What this woman completed was not the BUDS training for the SEALs but SWCC, who are the small craft operators who support the SEALs:

Military.com

1st Female Sailor Completes Navy Special Warfare Training
15 Jul 2021
Associated Press | By Lolita C. Baldor
WASHINGTON � For the first time, a female sailor has successfully completed the grueling 37-week training course to become a Naval Special Warfare combatant-craft crewman � the boat operators who transport Navy SEALs and conduct their own classified missions at sea.
Navy officials said they would not identify the woman or provide more details on her � a routine military policy for special operations forces. She was one of 17 sailors to graduate and receive their pins on Thursday. She is also the first of 18 women who have tried out for a job as a SWCC or a SEAL to succeed.

The sailor's graduation marks just the latest inroad that women have made into some of the military's most difficult and competitive commando jobs � just five years after all combat posts were opened to them. She will now head to one of Naval Special Warfare�s three special boat teams.
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