Mere days after two women completed the Army’s rigorous Ranger School, the Navy is making moves to integrate women into its own elite force.

The Navy SEALs have never accepted women into its ranks, but times are a-changing. Adm. Jon Greenert told the Navy Times that any woman who can complete the six-month long Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training has a right to become a SEAL.

“Why shouldn’t anybody who can meet these [standards] be accepted? And the answer is, there is no reason,” Greenert said. “So we’re on a track to say, ‘Hey look, anybody who can meet the gender non-specific standards, then you can become a SEAL.'”

The official approval for integrating women into the Navy SEALs is still pending. The Navy’s special forces currently boasts very few women, and the service does not yet know how many women will attempt to join the SEALs if given the opportunity.

SEAL training is a whole different animal than Ranger training. In addition to being six months long, BUD/S training is infamous for scaring off applicants with its rigorous and sometimes painful regimen. The training includes three phases–basic conditioning, diving and land warfare–and students will be pushed to their limits in the aptly named Hell Week.

Think that sounds like a vacation? The SEAL website begs to differ:

Physical discomfort and pain will cause many to decide it isn’t worth it. The miserable wet-cold approaching hypothermia will make others quit. Sheer fatigue and sleep deprivation will cause every candidate to question his core values, motivations, limits, and everything he’s made of and stands for.

It wasn’t easy for the women who passed Ranger School to earn their tabs, and it won’t be easy to conquer SEAL training. If the option isn’t open, we’ll never know if there any woman capable of joining the SEALs.