>>22938102 41-Year-Old ‘Wannabe GI Jane’ Sues U.S. Navy After Failing to Become First Female SEALPN
41-Year-Old ‘Wannabe GI Jane’ Sues U.S. Navy After Failing to Become First Female SEAL
by Jim Hᴏft Apr. 21, 2025
A 41-year-old Long Island attorney is taking the U.S. Navy to federal court after claiming recruiters deliberately dragged their feet on her application to become the first female Navy SEAL — until it was too late. (It was too late when she applied. Even then she was 33 or 34, max age for Seals is 30 and that’s an exception)
Amanda S. Reynolds, a self-described “Viking-like” warrior, has filed an age discrimination lawsuitagainst the Navy, accusing officials of stalling her application process long enough for her to miss the service’s age cutoff, according to The New York Post.
“I could have gone to officer candidate school in February,” Reynolds told The Post.“But they delayed my applicationwithout reason or cause and then they told me I was too old.”
Reynolds claims she was misled at every turn, with recruiters assuring her that age waivers were “always obtainable.” Yet despite what she describes as years of diligent preparation and physical training — including long-distance running, swimming, and scuba certification — her file was never submitted in time. (Did she meet all the requirements, those three things are only minor part of requirements)
“The opportunity … was kind of taken away from me. I would like that to be reinstated,” Reynolds said. “Iwould just like the outcome to be determined by the merits instead of by some sort of technicality. (That’s stupid she is trying to change the physical and mental rules it’s not a technicality)
According to Navyseals.com, “Applicants must be from 17 to 28 years old. Waivers for men ages 29 and 30 are available for highly qualified candidates. Men with prior enlisted service as SEALs who are seeking to become SEAL Officers can request waivers to age 33.”
The Woodbury, NY resident had previously worked for over a decade in litigation lawbefore deciding to pivot to military service in 2018. After being sworn into the Navy in Brooklyn, Reynolds claims she was never assigned to a unit, never deployed, and never processed into active duty status.
The Navy, meanwhile, disputes the timeline, stating it has “no record of service” for Reynolds and that herenlistment paperwork was first filed in 2019.
After a brief move to Utah,Reynolds says she revived her efforts in 2020, only to be sidelined by a DUI arrest— a misdemeanor charge that was later dismissed in 2023. Still, she pressed on,eventually entering the Navy SEAL Warrior Challenge Program in 2023 with the hope of breaking the gender barrierin the elite special forces unit. (That makes no sense even in 2023 she would have been too old to be a Seal, regardless of gender)
But instead of advancing her candidacy,recruiters allegedly pushed her toward the Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps, citing her legal background.
“I wound up bringing a lawsuit in federal court in New York in order topursue an age discriminationclaim against the Navy in order to have my opportunity reinstated. So that’s where I’m at now, in the stage of the process. And hopefully, with the help of the courts and judicial intervention,I’ll be able to pursue that route as a career, notwithstanding my age,” she said.
(Is she fighting for a class of people and both sexes turned away that were over 30, because it’s not discrimination, it’s a qualification of a limited age that can do this job, she’s calling age instead of what she really wants to sue on, sex discrimination but she can’t do that because age applies to both sex’s.This whole thing is a stunt even men wouldn’t be allowed to join the Seals over age 30.Plus she is 11 years older today than the highest age by exception can be.Age discrimination has nothing to do with it,it’s the military requirements of physical, mental, advanced training and lots of other requirements that men and women must meet; as they get older they have lost the super peak physical powers of under age 30. There are a lot of requirements for the job, just like if you are trying to get a job as an accountant without math training.And it’s definitely not sex discrimination, see article next post. Her asking to be reinstated at age 41 is just nuts.This is just a women’s lib hoax, she’s trying to break age and sex discrimination but under military rules it applies to men and women. It’s just the requirements to do the job.)
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/41-year-old-wannabe-gi-jane-sues-u/
See requirements next post..