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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Navy SEALs to open to women

CRS 1Women may start training in Coronado as Navy SEALs in 2016, according to an Associated Press report Monday, which also said female sailors may join Navy Riverine units for initial training next month.

Details of the Pentagon’s plan for allowing women into the last bastions of male-only combat are expected to be announced today. In addition to the SEALs, Army Ranger units would open to women for training by mid-2015.

These changes would be especially felt in San Diego. All SEALs go through initial training at the Coronado compound off the Silver Strand, where the parent Naval Special Warfare Command also resides.

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