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Dorian answered by pointing at the large round protrusion at the bottom of his rifle, indicating the custom-mounted grenade-launcher; "Can never be sure nobody fiddles with it if I so much as turn my back to it, and with explosive ordnance like that, you HAVE to be sure." He snarked while noting that Lt Watters had a similar mount; but being a scattergun, friendly-fire wasn't of nearly as much concern for her, but all the same she treated those tools like they were her babies; very big deadly babies.

Being low-man on the totem-pole had the perk of not really needing to plan something more than a few clicks ahead of himself, then worry about contingency plans, and then have the nervous-breakdown of all of those plans going to hell in a handbasket within five minutes of a drop. He just had to make sure he was smarter and faster than a covvie grunt when his time came.

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eyesonlyhacker said
So I did have one question that came to mind just now. Lasko is our Squad Leader, but who will be your 2 fire team leaders? A made a list of everyone already approved and their specialty by rank. This should help anyone needing clarification.

CPT Sam Lasko - Rifleman/Squad Leader
1st LT Jennifer Watters - CQC/Stealth
SSG Keni Mathers - EOD/Demo
SGT Lee Mcgarren - CQC
CPL Matthias Makinen - Scout/Medic
LCpl Anders Björkgård - Sniper
SPC Dorien Pella - Rifleman/Grenadier

Command Group
CPT Sam Lasko - Rifleman/Squad Leader
1st LT Jennifer Watters - CQC/Stealth
CPL Matthias Makinen - Scout/Medic

'spolsive-group
SSG Keni Mathers - EOD/Demo
SPC Dorien Pella - Rifleman/Grenadier

'sport group
SGT Lee Mcgarren - CQC
LCpl Anders Björkgård - Sniper

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Specialist Pella had cleaned -and re-cleaned- his weapons, making sure the grenade-launcher had fit snug under the barrel of his battle-rifle, even going so far as to get the EB-Green out and giving it a few more wraps. The scope was also quickly double-checked for zero with a boresight-indicator, and the smartlink on his M7S recalibrated. Only after being absolutely sure of a good weapons-fit did he lock his rifle back onto the wall-mount and holster his sidearm.

He was the youngest, and had since basic learned to at least try and keep his mouth shut, especially whenever he 'thought' he recognized someone of higher rank from previous missions. The only exception being Lance Corporal Björkgård, Anders. They were only Privates back on Arcadia, but their actions both resulted in promotions, of sorts. And then there was Jennifer, big girl, supposedly had been an ODST since forever based on her rank, but never heard of a single combat-drop she ever partook in. Definitely a spook, or a spook-puppet.

Then there was their CO, an Army-grunt with ODST-certification and a chip on his shoulder going by the name of Lasky. Being the planet's 'bucket brigade' to put down fire-fights meant that this was going to be a mostly-army affair, allowing them greater free-use of pelicans rather than HEVs and trying to hitch-hike their way out. However, Pelicans were deathtraps. So he made sure to bring a parachute.

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I thought we'd be taking SOEIVs?

Nallore said
Why no one tell me a Halo rp was up?! Is this still open or no?

Oh, sorry, forgot you were into that sort of thing.

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Well, they also make body-armors (including MJOLNIR V(M) variant), and warthogs.

Also on mars: The sole manufacturer of the M808 MBT

Anyways, in the 'Mare is Tricode Village.

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Just gonna toss this out there, but its In-canon that Misrah armory continued functioning right on through this battle, and into the end of the war.

Where else did you think the BR-85s came from?

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Pepperm1nts said
Air support could be limited. If the Covenant control the skies, it's understandable to not have much air support, but it is not unheard of to make exceptions and prioritization for units based on the importance of their mission. If there is any degree of air power available, - and I assume there is considering you are being dropped in pods - it'd be special units like yours would be getting air support.

I was actually suggesting to augment ODST's assets with atmospheric-assets from the factories due to the fact that the Covvie fleet had stripped the planet of orbital assets.
-That, and Covvie-ships kinda suck in atmosphere.

And a Falcon is a ton faster than a mongoose.

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And trying to evac vehicles which themselves aren't rated for space-combat in unarmed transports, in front of said 3 supercarriers...
-Heck, even after the factories were gutted, tanks still rolled out of Stalingrad and Lenningrad still upgraded and repaired tanks.

The Covvies also had this bad habit of mistakening Human tech for forunner artifacts.
-Which is entirely why Cleveland, Ohio was never glassed. As the Colenel would say, "You're welcome."

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BTW, since it is feck'n MARS, I'd say there's a pretty high Army presence, similar to that of Reach/ODST, as such, expect a fairly high number of cheaper and quite capable UH-144s and a smattering of the lighter Hornets to be attached to assist the ODSTs.

In Halo nomenclature, VMX = Marine, so AMX = Army... seems logical.

Also, unlike the other Spartans, S-III was an Army program.

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3rd MEU looks good.

Quick rundown on Spartan production vs ODST ranks:
1 - 300
1.1 - ~7
2 - Less than 75, Less than 16 survived the Fall of Reach
3 - 1200+
4 - ~500

ODST - 'several divisions' (at least 3 are named), 20,000 members each

Since Halo loves Spartans, and treats everything else as mook-redshirts unless scripted otherwise... records of entire military strength is hard if not impossible to determine.
-Usually as big as the difficulty level demands.

On top of that, the organization is... messy.