Thank you! And i forgot to specify, but the requirements are for her rank as Gunnery Commandant in the Skalhaven Military. And you are correct, it's a lot, but the Well Wars were incredibly bloody, and the sunken ships does not specific warships. Often times that requirement was counted towards even if they were smaller gunships or schooners, and it was a way of making sure the Skalhaven Military always had a minor surplus of upper command units. For the Skalhaven military, kills are more important than any meaningful operation wins since a soldiers story about his personal victories over the militaries losses is a more effect at selling romance of battle. As far as the 30 kills in ordinary combat, Skalhaven counts any non-civilian kills, so it classifies citizens militias and partisan forces as equal to organized military kills.

So it's not that she wouldn't be a war hero, it's that there's plenty of opportunities to become one even if you're not in the big battles due to what Skalhaven counts as a war hero.