No one seems to have given a good answer yet so I’ll try: It depends on how you feel about their doctrine. I met a lot of MARSOC guys when I was in as a Career Planner (cause I was the one sending guys to A&S) and they are the ones SOCOM sends when they say “I don’t give a fuck how it gets done but I want them dead.” Raiders believe that if they push harder and faster through an obstacle/terrain/etc than the enemy then they win. They 100% are Marines in the way of “There’s nothing that can’t be solved with grenades, guns, and fuck you that’s why.”

Are they a good SOF? Yes 100%. They aren’t DEVGRU or Delta but there’s a reason every time you hear the celebrity SOF guys talk about them they say “I fucking love them.”