Forum:How is Black Team a secret?

Whenever I read about the Spartan-II Black Team, it always talks about them being a secret even to their peers. But if you read the Halo: Bloodlines comic they train and fight with all the other Spartan recruits, at one point standing in front of every other recruit in the mess hall. So how are they a secret from every other Spartan-II?


 * The other Spartans knew that Black Team  used to  exist. However, ONI pretended that they had died during the augmentation procedures; the other Spartans were deceived into believing that all four team members had died in 2525. They had no idea that the team had been performing ONI-sanctioned black operations throughout the war. In other words, Black Team's existence isn't a secret: their survival is. --Courage never dies. 23:12, 30 July 2011 (EDT)


 * As far as the other Spartans were concerned they no longer existed. ONI did it's job and there would only one true person who could possibly know or theorize their current situation or location, that individual would be Halsey. She holds a high enough ONI clearance level to even possibly know of their existence. It's possible due to the war many Spartans could've lost track of their fellow comrades, some were in fact MIA while others were truly KIA, and so the other Spartans would've assumed them lost.--BSGSGHalo 21:36, 31 July 2011 (EDT)