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Subject: Why is he called Master Chief?
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I mean, all the guys he runs around with are Marines, why isn't he? Why did Bungie decide to make him a Navy man? Does anyone know?

Sorry if this question has been asked before, but it's really been bugging me.

  • 11.09.2004 9:21 AM PDT
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Because Navy just isn't cool enough. You can't really make a badass video game about a guy in the navy. I don't think that would be possible.

  • 11.09.2004 9:23 AM PDT
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But he is a Navy man. Master Chief is a Navy rank. They should have made him a Marine and called him Gunny or something.

  • 11.09.2004 9:42 AM PDT
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according to "the fall of reach" he is petty officer first class master chief, i belive

  • 11.09.2004 10:47 AM PDT
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Does anyone know why they chose to make him a Navy man? It had to be intentional because all of the people he fights with are Marines.

  • 11.09.2004 11:40 AM PDT
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thats how he was born

duh






that was a joke

  • 11.09.2004 12:00 PM PDT
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well this might not b true but heres my 2 sense on it

the marines r a sub branch of the navy, the navy r like there superiors(but dont tell a marine u know that though) they send marines in for the suicide missions but this time the suicide mission was way to important so they had to have a higher caliber soldier and that soldier was the master chief

  • 11.10.2004 8:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: Caracarn
well this might not b true but heres my 2 sense on it

the marines r a sub branch of the navy, the navy r like there superiors(but dont tell a marine u know that though) they send marines in for the suicide missions but this time the suicide mission was way to important so they had to have a higher caliber soldier and that soldier was the master chief



You have got to be kidding! Higher caliber soldier? Navy?

  • 11.10.2004 12:05 PM PDT
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ACtually, no. See, his rank is Master Chief Petty Officer. Plus, he is a higher caliber soldier. We don't have an army. Why? Because, half of our fights are on other planets. And since earth became one giant country, who needs an army?

  • 11.10.2004 12:42 PM PDT

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The marines are generally the first soldiers on the beach and are the army of the navy. since space ships are ships they are navy, so the pilots must be navy. he is navy because he has the knoledge of how to fly ships and he isnt just a ground guy like a marine.

  • 11.10.2004 1:08 PM PDT
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he was called m c because he was the leader.
He was the master cheif (as it says so in the book/manual)

  • 11.10.2004 1:18 PM PDT
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Master Chief and Master Chief Petty Officer are the same thing. Whice is a Navy rank. Master Chief is sort of a nick-name.

Why didn't they make him a Marine? The troops he fights with are Marines because that is a job that would be handled by them. But they specifically made him a squid. Why? It had to be intentional. What was the reason behind it? If they wanted him to be Navy so badly then why not have him fight with a futuristic version of the SEALs instead of a futuristic version of the Marines?

  • 11.10.2004 1:20 PM PDT
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the halo xox manual explaines most of it
and halo bungie org explaines the rest. see the story then the charactors.

  • 11.10.2004 1:23 PM PDT
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Posted by: tapeman1
But he is a Navy man. Master Chief is a Navy rank. They should have made him a Marine and called him Gunny or something.


Called him "Gunny"? I don't think that many people would play if their hero was named "Gunny"... lol

  • 11.11.2004 6:49 PM PDT
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The Marines, as mentioned above, are part of the Navy. Look at the Joint Chiefs of Staff: Navy, Army and Air Force. I don't see Marines as one of them. Marines were the soldiers who accompanied sailors on military ships. Their job was to boarded enemy ships and fight on land. Thus the two forces are historically linked.

  • 11.11.2004 8:36 PM PDT
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Master cheif is a navy rank right? he is in the navy because he is the highest ranking Spartan created. He is also part of the space fleet which is kind of like the Navy.

  • 11.13.2004 6:21 AM PDT
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He is in the navy because the Spartan-II program was invented by an ONI scientist (Dr. Halsey) and they were trained by ONI. (Office of Naval Inteligence)

  • 11.13.2004 7:39 AM PDT
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He's part if the Navy because he was created to be part of the star ship fleet which is the equivlant of the Navy in the time period the game was created.

  • 11.13.2004 9:03 PM PDT
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Why is who called Masterchief?

  • 11.13.2004 10:51 PM PDT
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hes the chief... AND HE CANT BE DEFETED MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA

  • 11.13.2004 10:54 PM PDT

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im the halo universe there is only two branches of armed forces left the marines(infantry) and the navy (shipmen and scientists). So since the Spartans where in truth a big science project he was in the navy naturally. If you read the book it tells you that since he is the best leader figgure of the spartans he is promoted to the rank of Petty Officer Master Chief. Actually now that i think about it if you read the books it tells you all of this. Damn people go read a book!...........lol
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  • 11.14.2004 1:50 AM PDT

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Faith is my Shield,
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And you may live to reap the rewards.

"The Important Thing Is To Never Stop Questioning,"

Actaually i was in the marines and they do have a Joint Cheif Of Staff, true they are historically linked but the marines were originally created from an army force and are now there own Military Branch, they just still get there paychecks from the navy because u either get it from navy or army so............
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Snowman

  • 11.14.2004 1:53 AM PDT

Discipline is my Sword,
Faith is my Shield,
Do not leap blindly into uncertainty,
And you may live to reap the rewards.

"The Important Thing Is To Never Stop Questioning,"

oh yea and just to say.lol......half the replies on this subject were some of the dumbest -blam!- i have ever heard...... i mean damn do u people know anything about the military(yes i do im in it so shut up)..................do you even know anything about the halo univers or do you just play the games?..............................i mean i understand if your new to it but damn if you dont know dont come up with some bull-blam!- and act like you do.............hahaha.....sorry its just some of those answers .............hahahahahahaha.............damn
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  • 11.14.2004 1:59 AM PDT
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its just because hes a master

  • 11.14.2004 5:39 PM PDT
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Master Chief was ol' Johnny's rank.

  • 11.14.2004 5:46 PM PDT

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