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She is my choice this season. Some interesting info about her: http://www.npr.org/templa...ory.php?storyId=90015810

 Nina Acosta, a former police officer who worked in the department's select Metro division, says she was one of those women who were kept out.

In the 1990s, she tried out to become a SWAT officer twice. She passed the grueling fitness tests but was not selected to enter the training program. She says she was devastated.

"There could have been only one reason and that was because I was a woman," Acosta says. "I did very well in the tryouts. And when we got the tapes, because they taped the whole process, it proved exactly what I knew all along, that I had beaten most of those guys in the head to head competition."

She sued the LAPD for discrimination in 1994 and won. The jury awarded her more than $2 million in damages.

Acosta says the lieutenant in charge was "very arrogant about saying women do not belong in SWAT." She says she was given the message that "you guys can work in the field and work in juvenile detectives or work the front desk and all that stuff, but SWAT's where all the men play."

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 There also seems to be a bit of diva in her. When she found out another woman had become the first female S.W.A.T member, her response was: "I really feel like I deserved to be the first woman in SWAT". No "Congratulations", nothing 

 Also... LOVE her picking Sue Hawk as her favorite survivor.

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She's borne of the template of first boots, but who knows. What happened to the $2 million dollars she won for playing the court system?

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Anybody have a non USA-only video of nina's pre-show interview?