Editing Fire Team Charlie

{{Status|Canon}}
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|affiliation=[[United Nations Space Command|UNSC]]
|branch=[[UNSC Marine Corps]]
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|battles=
*[[Fall of Reach]]
*[[Battle of Installation 04]]
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|notable-title=Notable commanders
|notable=*[[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson|Avery Johnson]]
*[[Sergeant]] [[Parker]]
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'''Fire Team Charlie''' was a [[United Nations Space Command]] [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] unit stationed aboard the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} that actively participated in the [[Battle of Installation 04]].{{Ref/Game|HCE}}{{Ref/Novel|Halo: The Flood}}

==Background==
Fire Team Charlie was led by [[John-117]] to rescue [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes|Keyes]], who had been captured by the [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]]. Although many were killed, some still survived. Eventually, Keyes led the remaining Marines to a "weapons cache", where most of the team was killed or infected by the [[The Flood|Flood]].

==History==
===Fall of Reach===
{{Main|Fall of Reach}}

During the final stages of the of [[Fall of Reach|Fall of]] [[Reach]], an element of Fire Team Charlie, consisting of [[Sergeant Johnson]] and Privates [[O'Brien (Reach)|O'Brien]], [[Bisenti]] and [[Wallace Jenkins|Jenkins]] were stationed aboard [[Gamma Station]] above the planet. The team were struggling to take out a large group of [[Kig-Yar]] [[Kig-Yar Ranger|Rangers]] when a group of [[SPARTAN-II program|SPARTAN-IIs]] led by [[John-117]] intervened. The Marines assisted the SPARTANs with their objective, destroying the NAV database of the [[UNSC Circumference|UNSC ''Circumference'']] which was docked in the station. After this was accomplished, the Marines left the station and boarded the ''Pillar of Autumn''. The ''Autumn'', with Fire Team Charlie aboard, then [[slipstream space|jumped]] away from the battle.{{Ref/Novel|Halo: The Fall of Reach|Chapter=37}}

===Battle of Installation 04===
{{Main|Battle of Installation 04}}

When the ''Autumn'' arrived at [[Installation 04]], it found itself under immediate attack from the [[Covenant]], who had followed the ship from Reach. In response, Captain [[Jacob Keyes]] ordered all personnel to evacuate the ship and make landfall on the ring. Fire Team Charlie managed to repel the enemy long enough for them to escape via a [[Bumblebee escape pod]].

Some pods had been destroyed on impact, killing the unprotected Marines within.{{Ref/Level|HCE|The Pillar of Autumn (Halo: Combat Evolved level)|The Pillar of Autumn}} The escape pods who had survived were spread out, and as a result, the Covenant located them quickly, attacking the Marine survivors. Fire Team Charlie soon found themselves under attack by Covenant strike teams. Thankfully, the Master Chief, who had landed in a nearby valley, arrived to provide assistance. The SPARTAN helped the Marines hold out until a [[Echo 419|Pelican]] dropship arrived to pick them up. The team was brought to [[Alpha Base (Installation 04)|Alpha Base]] while the Master Chief went on a mission to rescue other surviving Marines. Part of Fire Team Charlie was assigned to board and rescue Captain Keyes, who had been captured by the Covenant and was being held aboard the {{Pattern|Ket|battlecruiser}} ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]''. The team was deployed to assist the Master Chief and a team of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|ODSTs]] who had secured the ship's [[gravity lift]].{{Ref/Level|Id=TnR|HCE|The Truth and Reconciliation}}

During the assault on the ''Truth and Reconciliation'', Fire Team Charlie, led by [[Sergeant]] [[Parker]], remained at the ship's bridge while the Master Chief continued alone to rescue Keyes. Once separated from the SPARTAN, the team were killed by [[Stealth Sangheili]] armed with [[Type-1 energy sword|energy swords]]. However, from Cortana's reports, the Marines put up a good fight against their attackers, as John-117 came across several Covenant [[Sangheili]] corpses ridden with bullet holes. Fire Team Charlie did not die in vain: Captain Keyes was freed from his Covenant prison cell by the Chief and successfully extracted from the ship.{{Ref/Reuse|Id=TnR}}

The remaining portion of Fire Team Charlie, led by [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Johnson]], went with Captain Keyes to search for a [[weapons]] cache that turned out to be a [[Flood containment facility]].{{Ref/Level|HCE|343 Guilty Spark (level)|343 Guilty Spark}} Fire Team Charlie's Marines were either turned into [[Flood]] [[Flood combat form|combat forms]] or went [[Missing in action|MIA]]. Sergeant Johnson managed to escape from the facility, killing several of his infected comrades. PFC [[Chips Dubbo]] managed to link up with Corporal [[Lovik|Lovik's]] [[Second squad (Pillar of Autumn)|squad]] and was extracted by Echo 419. The only other known "survivor" of the expedition to search for the "weapons" was Jenkins, who was controlled by a weaker Pod infector.

Jenkins proceeded to alert the Marines of the Flood's presence below Alpha Base, allowing them to exterminate them. Later he was brought onboard the newly captured ''Truth and Reconciliation''. His actions lead to the destruction of the ship, preventing the Flood from escaping Halo. The victims of the [[Pod infector]]s were either killed by Johnson during his flight from the weapons cache, destroyed by the Master Chief during his escape from the facility, defeated by [[Melissa McKay|McKay]]'s ODST Platoon, destroyed aboard the ''[[Infinite Succor]]'', killed either by [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] troops, when the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' crashed, or during the destruction of [[Installation 04|Halo]].

==Known Members==
*[[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Junior Johnson]]
*[[Sergeant]] [[Parker]]
*[[Private First Class]] [[Chips Dubbo]]
*Private First Class [[Wallace A. Jenkins]]
*Private First Class [[M. Fitzgerald]]
*Private [[Manuel Mendoza]]
*Private [[Kappus]] (technical specialist)
*Private [[Bisenti]]
*Private [[Riley]]
*Private [[O'Brien (Marine)|O'Brien]]
*"[[Paranoid Marine]]"

==Gallery==
===Halo: Combat Evolved===
<gallery>
File:HCE_Fireteam_Charlie_1.jpg|Fire Team Charlie stand at attention as Sergeant Johnson rallies the Marines.
File:HCE_Fireteam_Charlie_2.jpg|Sergeant Johnson gives a speech to Fire Team Charlie.
File:HCE_Fireteam_Charlie_3.jpg|Fire Team Charlie reply in the affirmative to Johnson.
File:HCE_FireteamCharlie_Swamp.jpg|Fire Team Charlie moves through a rainy swamp and into a Forerunner structure.
File:HCE_FireteamCharlie_Keyes.jpg|Fire Team Charlie, accompanied by Captain Keyes, hold their position outside a locked door.
</gallery>
===Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary===
<gallery>
File:HCEA Johnson&Marines.jpg|Fire Team Charlie stand at attention as Sergeant Johnson rallies the Marines.
File:HCEA FireTeamCharlieVsCovies.png|Fire Team Charlie engaging Covenant forces on the surface of Installation 04.
File:TRGravLiftCEA.jpg|Fire Team Charlie and John-117 about to board ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
File:HCEA Lat'RavameeSlash.png|A member of Fire Team Charlie is killed by [[Lat 'Ravamee]].
File:HTMCC-HCEA Terminal 3.jpg|Members of Fire Team Charlie onboard ''Truth and Reconciliation''.
</gallery>

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Combat Evolved]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: The Flood]]''
*''[[Halo Graphic Novel]]''
**''[[The Last Voyage of the Infinite Succor]]''
**''[[Breaking Quarantine]]''
*''[[Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary]]''

==Sources==
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[[Category:UNSC Marine Corps fireteams]]