- Zombine
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I think that the Rookie is actually James, and here is why.
His body was never recovered, and we don't even know if he died. We know he drifted off into space, and wasn't found before John boarded the Pillar of Autumn, and jumped to Halo. He could have been drifting, found by ONI, and reinstated as an ODST similar to Kirk in Ghosts of Onyx.
Earlier in the Fall of Reach, his arm was melted off by a Hunter's plasma cannon. His prosthetic could simply not be very strong, thus he can't dual wield.
Also, the Rookie's initials are J.D. Most think that means John Doe, or my friend Zekkalkan things he is a character from Scrubs. It could easily be James, but we don't know his last name.
To sum it all up, James could easily be the Rookie. I think this makes more sense that him being some random ODST, who just happens to be in this squad, or some other crazy theory.