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A recurring complaint made by Army generals in WWII was that the then glamourous Navy was poaching all the highest quality men and they were left with the cretins. As a sample of the best, consider US presidents: JFK, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Bush all served in the Navy.
The old aristocratic prestige of naval officers seems strange now, I think largely because war movies have made more exciting, face to face killing seem so much more prestigious. Of all Pres candidates since the war only Dole was a genuine blood and guts infantry hero.
My Navy-veteran calculus teacher referred to Army soldiers as cannon fodder.
Wasn't the Navy a good option for career-focussed well connected people though? Not a bad deal to patrol Floridian waters for 3 years and get some medals. JFK didn't have the clout so ended up actually in the Pacific.
JFK was actually very well connected and I think wanted combat, believing correctly it would boost his prestige. After PT-109 made him a hero his handsome older brother Joe tried to outdo him by bombing V-2 bunkers but ended up dead.
None of those guys were fighters, except Bush (enormously brave) and maybe the glory hound JFK. The Navy was certainly more aristocratic, no doubt.
you forgot ted turner 
Same in Israel with the Air Force.
Nah. The IAF's contribution to the civilian leadership has been small compared to Matkal, Maglan, MAMRAM and 8200. The washout rates in the pilots' course are astronomical, and one of the things they select against is too big of a brain.
You forgot Johnson.
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