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Posted by: JDYeash937 MkII
Posted by: Killed by Pasta
Posted by: OrderedComa
The SIIIs, from what I have read, were not made solely for fighting the Covenant as you said, they were created to ensure the survival of Humanity, granted their service was devoted for the most part in attacking the Covenant, but they still had other purposes, such as dealing with Insurrectionist activity. Basically they just do whatever mission their CO needs done. I see no reason for why an SIII team would not be called on to attack Insurrectionists, you take what's available to you, and Spartans of either type would do a hell of a better job than any Marine or Army grunt.
There were specifcally designed to take out Covenant High Value Targets. Ackerson said that when he presented his project to ONI leaders.However, Alpha Company spent more than half their missions fighting insurrectionists, before their military record culminated in the massacre of OPERATION PROMETHEUS. We hear about their operations just before Kurt is debriefed as to PROMETHEUS.
Noble has officer ranks to give them more independcency in the field, and they're army, not Navy, and the whole III program works a little differently than the SII.
Re-read that. It makes no sense.
Well, they work for an army officer (Colonel Holland), and if they were Navy SPARTANS, they would be under ONI control. So Halsey would not need to inform them they 'belonged to ONI' at the end of the game.
However, Warrant Officer, Commander and Lt.Commander are all Navy ranks, and they are under command of the mainline UNSC Army.
So it is not clear at all what is going on here.
I believe what she says is "you belong to ONI now" I could be wrong though, I haven't played campaign in a while.
Navy and Army have quite a few of the same ranks at least in name, I believe, like both have sergeants, privates, captains, and then some of the higher ranks in the Reach ranking system are strictly army, like General, Lt. Colonel., and Major, the only ones that I would even consider being navy is Commander. And I didn't see any Lt. Commander, and I just looked through the rank list for Reach.
Noble being army, they have army ranks.