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Originally Posted by nik1979
It is interesting why seals and even soldiers are so high in point value. The difference between them and civilians is that the government is paying for their training and civilians have to pay their own way. Its not actually that they are "better" than other people, but there is a greater investment in them.
So basically, in a non-combat setting, a "state" can actually create any highly-skilled career individual of their choosing. A bit OT. On the other hand, an organization of sufficient resources can invest such levels of ability to their members- like the Nobles of Fading Suns.
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I could be wrong, but I'd expect SEALs and other elites to be skewed toward people with applicable talents and natural gifts. Certainly they are extremely heavily trained, and that accounts for the greater part of their overall point value, but it seems probable that they were above average going in as well.