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Posted by: Plasma Prestige
"We have Spartans on the ground" does not imply that the speaker is a Spartan at all. I don't see how some people are automatically connecting this, but it is flawed. I will give you an example; if I am a marine on the battlefield and my commanding officer radios in to tell us to retreat, I could say "we have tanks on the battlefield" but that would not mean I am a tank, would it. Sierra can be used to refer to a Spartan, but it can also be sniper, special ops, or pilots. 259 isn't a classification code for any of the Spartan divisions.
No, but the CO wouldn't have you telling him that you have tanks on the battlefield. He would call the tank drivers. Furthermore, they were given no order to retreat and Spartans work alone (unlike tanks).