The dream of an aspiring Gi Jane of becoming the first Seal of the Navy ended because the military recruiters delayed her request for so long that she aged, she said in a lawsuit.
The US Navy officials failed to advance in the application of Amanda S. Reynolds, and then told him in the fall that he would no longer qualify for the Naval Officers Training Command in Newport, RI, because he would be more than the age of the Court. The time you graduate.
“The opportunity.” I would like the result to be determined by merits instead of some type of technicalism.
“I could have gone to the school candidates in February, [but] They delayed my request without reason or cause and then they told me it was too old, “he said.
Long Island’s lawyer first sought to join the Navy in 2018.
“I was working in litigation for 12 years, and I burned working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week,” said Woodbury resident, calling the seals “such a noble cause.”
Reynolds, an avid long -term corridor and swimmer who is certified by SCUBA, said the special forces “masturbated with my physical activities.”
In a personal statement presented as part of his efforts to enlist, Reynolds wrote or his “Viking search” to be a stamp.
“As a American, I was born with what I can only describe as an inexpressible and indefatigable nature to dream,” he wrote. “And so, I dream that I do it, never forget it is only under the auspices of this great army of nations that protects my inalienable right to do so so that it can.”
The service is executed in the family, said Reynolds. His grandfather served in the Norwegian ski patrol; His uncle was an American pilot of World War II demolished in the Pacific, and his older brother is an FBI agent.
“I hope to serve as the first Navy Seal officer in this country, so it can be a second, a third, and an infinitesimal many more candidates who could over you these shared values in the same way,” the same.
But his dream stopped almost from the first moment.
Reynolds, who represents Herelf in his case of age discrimination of the Federal Court of Brooklyn against the US Navy.
Reynolds completed “enlistment paper” in 2019, according to the Navy, which had no “service record” for her.
He then moved to Utah, where she worked as a lawyer and reviewed her enlistment in 2020. But she was arrested in July 2020 for allegedly driving under the influence, a curse was dismissed in 2023, as shown in the judicial records.
He returned to Long Island and again pursued his dreams of joining the seals, but discovered that the recruiters rushed to urge her to use their legal skills in the general judge of the military judge.
She states that recruiters told her that “age could always be obtained.
“I was really preparing to participate in the pipeline, really taking all the right steps to process with the application,” he said. But the application “was not presented” by recruiters and “unjustificially delayed,” he said.
The Navy declined to comment on the litigation.
The Department of Defense opened the elite units of the Army, such as the Army’s green seals and berets, women in 2016, but no woman has finished the process to become a stamp.
“A bee with a stamp was never really about me, it was only me, a seal that turned out to be a woman,” he said.