The Royal Navy's treatment of Tribal-class destroyer crews offers a comparison with the Marine Raider controversy. Destroyer sailors already saw themselves as elite, but the Tribals gave them a higher standard to pursue. The idea was that one prestigious formation could raise expectations across the destroyer force. This approach answered the fear of creating an 'elite within an elite' by making the specialist unit a benchmark for its peers.
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The Tribal-class elite-standard analogy
A Royal Navy comparison shows how a prestigious specialist formation can raise standards across an organization rather than merely divide it.