A Long Island-based lawyer who aspires to be the US Navy 's "first female SEAL commando " has sued the naval force, allegedly because it first "delayed" her application and later rejected it as she was "too old."
Amanda S Reynolds told the New York Post, “The opportunity . . . was kind of taken away from me. I would like that to be reinstated. I would just like the outcome to be determined by the merits instead of by some sort of technicality."
She added, “I could have gone to officer candidate school in February, but they delayed my application without reason or cause and then they told me I was too old."
According to court papers, Navy officials first "failed" to advance the application of Reynolds, 41. Then, they told her in the fall she would no longer qualify for Naval Officer Training Command in Newport, Rhode Island, because she would be over the age limit of 42 by the time she graduated.
Reynolds, who first sought to join the Navy in 2018 by when she had been working in litigation for 12 years, further said she "kind of got burnt out working 24/7" and the special forces “kind of jibed with my physical pursuits.”
The Woodbury resident, an avid long-distance runner and swimmer who is SCUBA certified, in a personal statement submitted as part of her efforts to enlist wrote of her “Viking-like pursuit” to be a SEAL.
According to Reynolds, her grandfather served in the Norwegian Ski Patrol; her uncle was an American World War II pilot shot down in the Pacific, and her older brother is an FBI agent.
She is representing herself in her Brooklyn Federal Court age-discrimination case against the US Navy, and has also claimed she was “sworn into” the Navy in Brooklyn in 2018 but was "never assigned anywhere or deployed.”
However, as per the Navy, she filled out “enlistment paperwork” in 2019 and it had “no record of service” for her.
Reynolds then relocated to Utah, where she worked as a lawyer and revisited her enlistment in 2020. In July that year, she was arrested in for allegedly driving under the influence; the case was dismissed in 2023.
The United States Department of Defense opened the military’s elite units, such as the SEALs and the Army’s Green Berets, to women in 2016. No woman has ever finished the process to become a SEAL.
Amanda S Reynolds told the New York Post, “The opportunity . . . was kind of taken away from me. I would like that to be reinstated. I would just like the outcome to be determined by the merits instead of by some sort of technicality."
She added, “I could have gone to officer candidate school in February, but they delayed my application without reason or cause and then they told me I was too old."
According to court papers, Navy officials first "failed" to advance the application of Reynolds, 41. Then, they told her in the fall she would no longer qualify for Naval Officer Training Command in Newport, Rhode Island, because she would be over the age limit of 42 by the time she graduated.
Reynolds, who first sought to join the Navy in 2018 by when she had been working in litigation for 12 years, further said she "kind of got burnt out working 24/7" and the special forces “kind of jibed with my physical pursuits.”
The Woodbury resident, an avid long-distance runner and swimmer who is SCUBA certified, in a personal statement submitted as part of her efforts to enlist wrote of her “Viking-like pursuit” to be a SEAL.
According to Reynolds, her grandfather served in the Norwegian Ski Patrol; her uncle was an American World War II pilot shot down in the Pacific, and her older brother is an FBI agent.
She is representing herself in her Brooklyn Federal Court age-discrimination case against the US Navy, and has also claimed she was “sworn into” the Navy in Brooklyn in 2018 but was "never assigned anywhere or deployed.”
However, as per the Navy, she filled out “enlistment paperwork” in 2019 and it had “no record of service” for her.
Reynolds then relocated to Utah, where she worked as a lawyer and revisited her enlistment in 2020. In July that year, she was arrested in for allegedly driving under the influence; the case was dismissed in 2023.
The United States Department of Defense opened the military’s elite units, such as the SEALs and the Army’s Green Berets, to women in 2016. No woman has ever finished the process to become a SEAL.
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