There has been a lot of attention given to the recent public revelation that two females - one officer and one enlisted - have now APPLIED for training with Naval Special Warfare. One of them requesting SEAL Training, and one requesting SWCC Training. After seeing a lot of comments on several sites, I'd like to offer my own views on this matter. This will be long... but I'll try to make it worth your reading time. There has been much discussion about "SEAL Training standards being lowered to permit females to successfully complete the training". There have been voices decrying this loudly (my own included) ever since it was declared that females were now permitted to serve in the Teams. Navy brass has repeatedly declared that the standards will NOT be lowered to allow females to successfully complete the training. They are adamant. But actually... the standards are already being changed, and there is a valid reason to argue that some of those changes amount to the standards being "lowered". By the time the two (and presumably more) females actually enter the SEAL Training program, those alterations to the training will already be accomplished and the training will already be using them in 'regular' classes. Then when the females go through the course, the people in charge of the training can very truthfully state "we will not lower the standards for the females" and the standards as they are set at that point in time will NOT be changedt... but the alterations will have already been made before the females even get to Coronado. Those females will still not have to face the things earlier generations of Tadpoles faced. And the social pressures being exerted on the military in general, and the Navy in particular, will ultimately triumph with females being graduated from a SEAL Training program where none could have done so a generation earlier. Like it or not, it WILL happen that way. Steve "Moose" Robinson RM2(SEAL) BUD/S Class 59 (Feb 1971) SEAL Team ONE To read the full article and for more like this, pop on over to our blog: www.SPEARtacticalreviews.wordpress.com