Editing Red Team

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*[[Fall of Reach]]
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'''Red Team''' was a team of [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II commandos]] subordinate to the [[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]] [[UNSC Navy|Naval]] [[UNSC Special Forces|Special Warfare Command]].

==Background==
Red Team was composed of around two dozen SPARTAN-IIs, although they did not always serve together. They actively participated in several battles, including the [[Battle of Arcadia]], the [[Battle of Sigma Octanus IV]] and the [[Fall of Reach]].

==History==
[[File:BL Black vs Red.png|300px|thumb|Red Team competing with [[Team Black|Black Team]] during a training exercise.]]
In 2531, Red Team was under the leadership of [[Jerome-092]]. The team was a three-person unit, comprised of Jerome, [[Douglas-042]] and [[Alice-130]]. Red Team participated in the [[Battle of Arcadia]], where they assisted forces from the {{UNSCShip|Spirit of Fire}} to evacuate Arcadian civilians and to destroy a Covenant excavation operation at a [[Arcadia Forerunner ruins|complex of Forerunner ruins]]. After Covenant forces had been driven from Arcadia, Jerome, Douglas, and Alice remained with the ship's forces. After the ''Spirit of Fire'''s crew managed to destroy a Forerunner [[Shield 0459|Shield World]] in order to destroy a fleet of [[Unidentified Forerunner dreadnought class|Forerunner ships]] which the Covenant planned to reverse-engineer and use to swiftly destroy humanity, the three SPARTANs were presumed [[missing in action]] with the rest of the ship's crew. Ultimately, command of Red Team was then passed to [[Frederic-104]].

[[File:Hw-prima-blog-04-01.jpg|thumb|Red Team in [[2531]].]]
===Fall of Reach===
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On August 23<sup>rd</sup>, 2552, Red Team was deployed to defend civilian evacuation operations on Reach.<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach]]''', level ''[[New Alexandria (level)|New Alexandria'']]</ref> By August 30<sup>th</sup>, they had been assigned to the {{UNSCship|Pillar of Autumn}} to participate in [[Operation: RED FLAG]]. However, before the ''Autumn'' could exit the system and initiate the mission, all UNSC ships were recalled to defend Reach. Red Team was deployed to the surface of [[Reach]] to defend the [[Orbital Defense Generator|generators]] that powered the planet's twenty [[Orbital Defense Platform]]s.

Though they inflicted heavy damage on the Covenant, including destroying a [[Covenant cruiser]] and a military base set up to secure the ground, many members of Red Team were killed during their insertion and in the engagements that followed.

During the Fall of Reach, and many other campaigns that came before and after, Red Team was split up into four smaller teams: [[Team Alpha]], [[Team Beta]], [[Team Gamma]], and [[Team Delta]].

==Known members==
Although Red Team generally operated at a size of around six members, other Spartans could be selected as members of Red Team for missions where a larger number were required.

*[[Li-008]]
*[[Joshua-029]]
*[[Vinh-030]]
*[[Isaac-039]]
*[[Douglas-042]]
*[[William-043]]
*[[Anton-044]]
*[[Malcolm-059]]
*[[Kelly-087]] - Second in command of Red Team during the Fall of Reach but soon joined Blue Team due to the majority of SPARTAN deaths during the Fall of Reach.
*[[Jerome-092]] - Commander during the Outer Colony campaigns of [[2531]]. 
*[[Grace-093]]
*[[Frederic-104]] - Commander until the Battle of Onyx. 
*[[Alice-130]]
*[[Beta Red Actual]] - Leader of Team Beta during the Fall of Reach.
*[[Red-Fifteen]]

==Splinter arrangement==
During the Battle of Reach, the 23 surviving members of Red team were split into four groups: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
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'''Alpha'''
*[[Frederic-104]]
*[[Kelly-087]]
*[[Joshua-029]]
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'''Beta'''
*[[Beta Red Actual]]
*[[Red-Fifteen]]
*Nine unknown SPARTANs
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'''Gamma'''
*[[Li-008]]
*[[Anton-044]]
*[[Grace-093]].
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'''Delta'''
*[[William-043]], 
*[[Isaac-039]], 
*[[Vinh-030]], 
*Three unknown SPARTANs
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==Game unit==
[[File:HaloWars_-_RedVideo.png|thumb|300px|A member of Red Team firing a MA5B assault rifle.]]
In ''[[Halo Wars]]'', Red Team has a regenerating shield bar, in addition to a health bar. The regenerating shield bar recharges after a short time and makes the classic depletion and recharge sounds from the original trilogy. All three Spartans count as [[Hero Units]]; if their health is depleted, instead of dying, they are "downed", at which point their health bar begins to regenerate. Once the health bar is at least half full, the downed Spartan can be revived by touching them with any other unit under your control. The Spartans are capable of hijacking enemy vehicles and commandeering friendly vehicles, similar to the [[John-117|Master Chief]] in the original trilogy, but at a much slower rate. Additionally, there is a neural implant upgrade that can be obtained, which gives Spartans the power to hi-jack vehicles much more effectively. Because Spartans are more effective than standard soldiers with the same equipment, any vehicle driven by a Spartan receives a stat boost compared to standard vehicles of the same type. Spartans cannot be damaged by [[Flood infection form]]s while their shields are intact, but as Hero units, they are immune to being Infected anyway. 

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo Wars]]''
*''[[Halo: Reach]]'' {{Mo}}
*''[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: First Strike]]''
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]''

==Sources==
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{{SPARTAN Teams}}
[[Category:UNSC Military Units]]