She never even wanted to be a SEAL in the first place? >the candidate had not listed the SEALs as her top-choice warfighting community. She was awarded placement in her top choice So she passed SOAS and then said "I don't want to be a SEAL. I want to be something else." so she was not placed into BUD/S. That's mind boggling. Is there something else that SOAS is a requirement for that I am not aware of? Some secret military intelligence positions or something? Because otherwise it means one of two things. Either she chickened out for some reason or it was never about being a SEAL... it was about proving a Woman could do it. I lean towards the second explination because my understanding of it is that SOAS is the hard part and BUD/S is the fun part. SOAS is designed to make you fail to weed out the week. BUD/S is about making you grow and learn and is designed to make you succeed.