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Subject: Why hasn't the Chief been promoted?
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I wanna know.

  • 05.18.2004 7:11 PM PDT
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I think the ranking "Master Chief" is as high as one can go.

For a straight up soldier at least.

  • 05.18.2004 7:14 PM PDT
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Captain, Major, General, blah blah Admiral :)

  • 05.18.2004 7:15 PM PDT
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It's like a thorn in my leg, i need answers!

  • 05.18.2004 7:15 PM PDT
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I have thought about that before, I was thinking if he had been fighting for almost 30 years against the Covenant and had recieved every military honor except for the Prisoner of War medal, that he would at least be an officer now. But I reached the conclusion that his purpose is fighting, not sitting back giving orders. So they wouldnt want to promote him too high.

  • 05.18.2004 7:20 PM PDT
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I doubt the MC is much of a tactician, I'm guessing he was designed to be the ultimate "Super Soldier" sorta thing. Having him at the base giving orders, rather then being at the battle front kinda seems to be a counter-productive move on the Marines part. And more importantly, it wouldn't make for a very interesting game. ("COMING SOON! The followup to the best FPS ever, HALO: COMMANDER, control whole squads of Marines in this new RTS from Bungie!", just doesn't seem to have the same appeal, hehe)

[Edited on 5/18/2004 7:25:52 PM]

  • 05.18.2004 7:23 PM PDT
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The master cheif is has awesome tactics and hes a real good fighter thats why they need him on the ground he kills good and can get his team out alive

  • 05.18.2004 7:26 PM PDT
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Then why did they genetically enhance the chiefs intelligence if they didnt want him to be a commander. Seems weird to me.

  • 05.18.2004 7:28 PM PDT
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He's an 'enlisted man' not an officer, so he can go no higher.

  • 05.18.2004 7:28 PM PDT
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Posted by: Abolitionofman
He's an 'enlisted man' not an officer, so he can go no higher.

Not technically he didnt enlist.

  • 05.18.2004 7:37 PM PDT
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either way, he's an nco. Unless the UNSC higherups decide to give him a bf commision, he will stay a MC.

  • 05.18.2004 7:39 PM PDT
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What I want to know is, what the heck will we call him if gets promoted?

  • 05.18.2004 7:43 PM PDT
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Since we don't know his last name, we'll call him Lieutenant John. =P

  • 05.18.2004 7:48 PM PDT
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Uh, 2nd LT? I have no idea.

  • 05.18.2004 7:48 PM PDT
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He CAN'T be promoted. The idea behind it is that enlisted men (in this case anyone who hasn't gone to officer's school) cannot be anything higher than a Master Chief in the Navy.

  • 05.18.2004 7:49 PM PDT
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Navy? I thought he was marines... now I'm confused.

  • 05.18.2004 7:59 PM PDT
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MC is part of the intergalactic navy that helps keep earth from the covies. the marines are the actual party that stay on earth or on plantes to defend or attack the covenant. the thing was with the pillar is that it was a navy vessel holding several marines for an attack on the covenant homeworld. make sense at all now? no? ok, good. i confused myself too :).

  • 05.18.2004 8:05 PM PDT
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Something you should consider is that this is about 500 years in the future and the ranking system could have changed.

  • 05.18.2004 8:05 PM PDT
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[color=white]There's three ways to join the military. 1) Lifestyle. Those people enlist for like 6 years and then when that's up, they re-enlist. They don't go to school to become an officer or anything. They join to kill people. 2) Reserves. They don't go to school. They don't go for lifestyle. They fight on certain weekends. "Weekend warriors." ;D and 3) People that go to school then join. They're the higher ranking people. Basically they join to order people around. As odd as it sounds, it's necessary. You need smart people telling the soldiers what to do.

Phew. So that having been said, people that join for life cannot go above "Non com", I think. And that's what the MC is. A non commissioned officer. (If I'm wrong anywhere let me know. I might have typed all this too fast or didn't think clear enough.)[/color]

(*Edit* Spelling corrections.)

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  • 05.18.2004 8:08 PM PDT
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Sooo he's like some sorta new Uber Seal or something? Cool thanks for the run down, I always though he was marine, what with him always being surrounded by them like the WHOLE way through the game, hmph.

And I agree with Strider, it's the future (alternate universe perhaps) so things could be completely discombobulated... like MCs being in the marines! It makes sense now :P

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  • 05.18.2004 8:08 PM PDT
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Yea I'm pretty sure your right Rewin.

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  • 05.18.2004 8:13 PM PDT
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Yeah, the Master Cheif is a non-commisioned officer (NCO). He can't be promoted any higher withing the Navy unless he is given a battlefield commission which temporarily gives him officer status. In first strike though, he can command Lt. Haverson, his superior, because he was given tactical command directly from UNSC High Command, whose authority supercedes that of Lt. Haverson.

  • 05.18.2004 8:35 PM PDT