Forum:Noble Team is a JSOC unit

...or whatever the 26th century equivalent of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command is. While I mean it in a quite literal term referring to America's JSOC organization, it's pretty simple when comparing it to Noble Team and the Navy SPECWARCOM or Army SPECWARCOM question. Thankfully both the new Halo: The Essential Visual Guide reference book and our friends over at 343 Industries cleared it up for us HERE. You'll have to buy the book yourself, which is quite a good read I must say!

TL;DR, Vociferous is stating that while both the second and third generation programs of the Spartans are operationally under Fleet Command's control (i.e. NAVSPECWARCOM and ONI's daddy), Noble Team is essentially an Army funded, operated, and led element within their own Special Warfare branch. Because of this, the Spartans of Noble Team retain their Navy ranks (Commander, LCDR, Lieutenant, etc.), however, they are temporarily personnel within ARMYSPECWAR during their time with the elite team.

Super TL;DR, Noble Team is full of pirates under command of land lubbers.

Hope that cleared it up!

Cheers,

I was suspecting this. Nice to see my suspicions to be confirmed =) Missing Mandible 01:35, 10 July 2011 (EDT)