First Female SEAL Candidate Is Here

By Evann Gastaldo

July 21, 2017

A big first for the US Navy: The branch has its female SEAL candidate. 

A second woman is a candidate to become a special warfare combatant crewman, another elite special operations job previously open only to men. 

"They are the first candidates that have made it this far in the process" since the Pentagon opened front-line combat positions to women more than a year and a half ago, a spokesperson for the Naval Special Warfare Command tells NPR.

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