Who are the most educated and skilled people of the special forces? Everybody thinks the Navy Seals are the most elite, because they have to be the most physically and mentally tough, but are they the most skillful and clever of the special forces? Which special operations force has the highest average IQ among operators?
>Who are the most educated and skilled people of the special forces?
Impossible to know and doesn't fucking mater anyway.
I've heard that the Delta Force trains their operators to do all sorts of based shit, including escape and evasion, including from typical law enforcement, and how to drive a car like a professional racer to evade capture. It seems like they have a lot of the same skillset as a lot of professional criminals, and I find it hilariously based that they're taught these skills by the US government through the military. From what I've heard, it seems like they are selected more for intelligence than those of other special operations forces.
any data on asvab and where people end up?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Services_Vocational_Aptitude_Battery
>most educated
I would assume the SAS
Why is that?
the accent
>Which special operations force has the highest average IQ among operators?
IQ is a meme
That being said probably all of AFSOC considering they careers like SOST among them
>IQ is a meme
You have either never met legitimate retards, or you are a delusional midwit who thinks those with IQs in the 80s and 70s aren't actually that dumb, and that maybe it's the result of a lack of education, instead of noticing that they clearly think way more slowly.
The only people who brag about IQ are people who have nothing else.
>t. brainlet
IQ is, and always has been, secondary to social intelligence. High IQ people don't lead, the work under leaders or become "he had so much potential".
>t. Person with nothing else
Try to be more unique than a computer ok?
IQs are not a adequate way to judge intelligence unless you're stuck up about empirical evidences no matter their methodology. Alot of the people in 100 iq ramge are retards too.
>IQs are not a adequate way to judge intelligence
IQ is one of the most predictive and statistically valid metrics in the entire field of psychology. Intelligence is the first thing anyone studied and the most studied thing in the field. We have over a century of knowledge on what intelligence is and how to measure it, and what it means.
IQ is a very adequate way to judge intelligence.
nagger, I already said they are relevant if you are obsessed with thinking about empiricle evidences. But aside from that, IQ is no adequate way of showing intelligence because there are many variables in being an intelligent person. There are many retards with high IQs that don't know how to innovate.
It depends how you define intelligence. You seem to be defining it very expansively - intelligence is "how well you can perform a task." I have no real reason for disliking this definition, but I do.
Whatever.
shut up retard
>delta
they're lookin for gnarly tards who can learn crazy shit fast with stuntmen physiques and next-level rucking prowess
> those with IQs in the 80s and 70s
These people have severe issues understanding basic cause and effect, they can't plan very far into the future or their plans are not realistic at all. You can instantly spot them when you talk with them...
>High IQ people don't lead
Leading sounds great but it's not, you manage people and resources or study market research reports. People love the image of being brave leaders who are above others and know what to do but don't even know what such positions actually require you to do - or how much overtime these people have to do (their contracts don't even have specified work hours).
Tell me about SOST. It sounds like theyre just a forward deployed surgical team, what makes them special forces? Is it just because theyre attached to the highspeed guys?
Intelligence Support Activity
SAS, SASR, NZSAS, Delta, and AFSOC.
NG ODAs. Doctors, lawyers, etc. That's where you'll find the most credentialed people- nobody anywhere else has the time to acquire credentials. But the reality is it doesn't matter. You have to be a little retarded to buy the song and dance- the smartest guys do it for kicks, but that also comes with externalities also commonly found with people who exhibit "experience seeking" behavior. Basically, you're either dealing with authoritarian personalities or "death before disco" types. More like pick your flavor of weaponized autism.
USMC is now considered a tier 1 unit and holding the awards of the biggest brawns
>Obligiatory "haha crayon eater retards 20IQ"
But you are right, USMC are a LOT smarter than the 90s and 2000s grunts
They dont go to school houses, there is no "screener", and most important is there is no more combat experience
The Joint Medical Augmentation Unit (JMAU).
These guys are actually Special Forces soldiers who also have completed the medical school and surgery specialization.
They are part of the Tier 1 units such Delta Force, DEVGRU and STS.
Green berets because they're cooler than your favorite unit. Also they standardized glock 17 gen5 and g45.
What makes you think people in the special forces even have big brains?
The limit for "functional" intelligence is an IQ of like 120-130. That's what most successful people have. 140 is probably a hard cap. Once you go beyond that into the 150s and 160s people start to break down, like when you're running a machine beyond its design specs.
t. 155 IQ
I'd imagine most doods in the special forces have an IQ of ~110-120. It's not a hugely cognitively demanding job but the competitive nature of selection would drive out anyone dumb. Smarter people tend to win even at competitions that don't involve intelligence just because being smart means you can train more effectively. Coaching mitigates this in elite sports (e.g. bodybuilding, NFL, whatever) but you wouldn't get that kind of individualised training for a selection board.
>What makes you think people in the special forces even have big brains?
people think all special forces operators are jason bourne for some reason
in reality they are mostly hicks and southern christians who kick doors in
watch any interview with any former tier 1 guy (on shawn ryan ect) and you wont be particularly impressed with their intelligence
There is a difference between intelligent and educated. Additionally a lot of those southern guys with the funny accents that we assume are dumb as a box of rocks are in fact pretty highly skilled, even if they're not always especially worldly. I spent two years assuming some old man I chatted with every once in a while was just a dumb hillbilly who loved to fish, only to discover that he was a retired engineer who had worked for Northrop.
>it's the classic failed clerk differentiates himself from other whites by using accents to pretend he's justasgood as an engineer (or scientist, or operator, or whatever arbitrary dick-measuring makes him feel less of a man when their woman walks by).
Midwits never learn.
Probably green berret because their job also involves learning about language, history and culture of the places they are deployed
>Probably green berret because their job also involves learning about language, history and culture of the places they are deployed
Language takes a while and some discipline to learn, and requires you to at least be a midwit, but I don't think they learn that much of it. All those other things don't take very long to learn at all, but I bet they draw out the process in whatever schools they attend, because some of them are too low-IQ to learn that kind of stuff quickly. You could literally teach yourself the entirely of calculus 1 and 2 within a couple months if you're intelligent and disciplined enough, and this would be while studying other subjects.
Believe it or not, I actually want to use professional criminals, like professional israeliteelry store and bank robbers, as a standard to measure how much shit special forces would need to learn and how many skills they need to acquire, since some of those guys are extremely clever at their craft, even though it's very risky. They need to know all kinds of shit, from every detail of the place they're planning on robbing, like who works there, when they show up, what they do, where everything is located, what kinds of safes there are, and how to break into them, what kinds of security systems are present, and how to sabotage them, among other things like human psychology, to how to deal with police, which involves having a really good grasp of the law, both local and federal, escape and evasion from police, how a lot of different tech works, classical hacking skills, like social engineering, and how to hack others to acquire more intelligence, how to have the best opsec possible and leave as little evidence as possible, and then they need to know what to do with the stolen goods, which involves knowing how to do business in the professional criminal world. They often depend on fences, but some of the more advanced ones have better means of getting rid of the stolen goods all themselves to maximize profits. They even need to have decent medical knowledge and have decent medical equipment on hand in case they or someone else in the process of conducting their craft gets harmed. They even need to know how to perform surgery, or have connections to someone like a veterinarian, or an actual medical surgeon, if they've got good enough connections. Obviously, if they're making so much money, then they'll simply be able to buy, or acquire through other means, a lot of the medical equipment and medications needed. Some of the highest IQ people are professional criminals.
lol
you realize those retards have almost died out everyone anyone cares?
No, they've become more sophisticated. There are still people who get away with israeliteelry store and bank robberies. Look up the Pink Panthers. One of their members literally escaped a maximum security prison on a stolen helicopter in France, despite the fact the facility had anti-helicopter netting nearly everywhere. They rob israeliteelry stores all over the world, but they avoid the US, because American cops are fucking psychos who will shoot at your person for simply trying to get away non-violently, and because the federal system is insane in sentencing and American prisons are literally third-world tier.
>educated and skilled people of the special forces
Accountants.
Uh dude my gaydar is going off for like every guy in this photo... what gives.
airforce ghosts
https://asc.army.mil/web/news-alt-ond19-life-as-a-ghost/
probably one of the SOARs by simple virtue of "only college grads are allowed to pilot aircraft"
this is probably the case if you're looking at mean "raw IQ", but if you're talking about acquired skills the title probably belongs to CAG or CIA's SAC
I would assume the biggest brains end up getting poached by the CIA for obvious reasons.