[pfflier]

Tou are right. In the pecking order of special operations you have, at the lowest level the common grunt. The next level up is usually Airborne training. At the third tier is Ranger training then at the top is the special forces (Green Berets) who have gone through all of the previous steps.

[joesnuffy]

Except after a prolonged period of actual war...when the wheat is separted from the chaff in all branches and units....the cream rises to the top ...regardless of what kind of hat you wear...
or school you went to...
It just takes the fire of war to reveal the gold from the dross...
enough metaphors? :)