"Do you think all those people who went to train them were wasting their time?" Alleria said. "Do you know how many people were training them back then? Even Arcane Knights went to the Steel Torrent as instructors to teach them cavalry charge tactics.
"Do you know how much effort everyone put into it? How much do you know about the joint combat drills between the various kinds of Battle-Pet Rangers? Besides, you applied for rare-grade uniforms for every soldier back then, and excellent-grade uniforms for all the officers.
"Go on, tell me what other unit could afford such extravagance. Only your Bloodhawk Company could get equipment like that approved back then. Other units couldn't even dream of it. Why? Because your unit had people from almost every legion in it, so everyone got a share once the request was approved. The Royalist Party Faction got the biggest share, and they approved it faster than anyone!"
"...I admit we got whatever we wanted back then, but... without any high-ranking fighters among them, calling them elite was a bit of a stretch," Yu Lin Bloodhawk said. "Besides, now they're just a flock of little birds. Without the larger force behind them, aren't those hundred little birds just easy prey?"
"Oh! I get it! Your idea of an elite unit is one made up entirely of high-ranking fighters!" Alleria said. "In all of Quel'Thalas, only the King's Household Guard is entirely high-ranking!"
"Uh... seriously?" Yu Lin Bloodhawk hadn't expected that answer. "Surely at least half of them have to be high-ranking to count as elite! Like your Frostwolf Clan Regiment!"
"Who told you half the Windrunners' Frostwolf Clan Regiment was high-ranking?" Alleria asked.
...Yu Lin Bloodhawk thought for a long while. Indeed, he had never heard anyone say that all Frostwolf Rangers