QUOTE (kzt @ Dec 18 2012, 02:09 PM)

He's wrong or misleading for dramatic effect. The failure rate is not comparable. There was a 42% graduation rate from Ranger school last year IIRC. What is the graduation rate from boot camp? I'm told it is career death for the few Marines who get selected to go to ranger school to fail, but they select officers and NCOs to attend and they select and train to avoid becoming the 60% of failures who fail in the first 3 days due to PT, Land Nav, 15.5 mile foot march or the combat water survival course (in other words, they were not properly prepared).
I didn't say anything about the failure rate, I was talking about the whole experience. The PT, the DIs, the length, the mental stress - all of it. Also note I said Army Rangers and not Delta Force or Pararescue - there are definite degrees of elite out there.
We can go back and forth with different branches and their _____ contests, but from everything I've seen, read, and heard, Marine boot is worse than some other branches' lower-tier special ops.