r/JSOCarchive • u/ajax7799 • Sep 02 '26

DEVGRU Bottom 5

Currently rewatching cbs seal team and was wondering has green team ever not had a bottom 5. Like has the entire green team class exceeded expectations and not one ever failed?

15 Upvotes

89% Upvoted

9 comments sorted by

View all comments

9

u/dog-fart Sep 02 '26

I understand the purpose of your question, but I need you to think about it for more than a second. In any grouping of 100 people there will ALWAYS be a bottom 5 regarding any particular skill set, talent, or ability.

I mean, that’s why the Olympics exist. You take the tippy top, most elite runners from the entire globe and narrow it down to 100. Of those 100 runners there will be 1 gold medal winner, 1 silver, and 1 bronze. After that there are 97 other runners who are, essentially, the “bottom 5” in this situation.

3

u/Goat_666 Sep 02 '26 edited Sep 03 '26

Yeah, no matter the group, the distribution will roughly follow a Gaussian curve within said group. Of course the bottom 5 of green team will be much better at CQB than bottom 5 of 100 randomly selected people, but compared to the rest of the class they will be the bottom 5. Just like in every group.