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Benjamin!
Personally, I've always felt that the Spartan-IIIs portrayed in GoO are comparitively worse trained. They receive better training, but it's condensed and they don't truly get given the time to develop to their true potential, Seeing as they're sent on suicide missions in their early teens, and aren't given chance to fully adapt to their augmentations.
On top of this, since most of their missions undertaken are of such high danger ratings that survival is unlikely, they'd most likely never truly gain the first hand experience that makes veteran soldiers so effective.
But, this could be attributed to circumstance, seeing as the Spartan IIs were trained when mankind's impending extinction was not an issue, and so had the time to train fully.
But, on the topic, I do think that it would be possible for a Spartan I to take out a Spartan III, but very difficult.
A normal human can kill an Elite, and Elites are vaguely analogous to Spartans, all depends on the scenario.
But in general, Spartan IIIs >>>>>>>>>>>> Spartan Is.
[Edited on 08.15.2011 11:50 AM PDT]