Editing Nolan Byrne

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|weapons=[[M7/Caseless Submachine Gun]], [[BR55 Battle Rifle]], [[M99 Stanchion]]

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'''Staff Sergeant Nolan Byrne''' is an [[UNSC]] [[Marine]], a Team Leader on [[ORION Project]], and a possible [[SPARTAN-I]].<ref>[http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?type=topnews&cid=12911 Bungie.net ''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'' Prologue] </ref><ref>The fight between him and Johnson "They made us killers"</ref> He was in [[Operation: TREBUCHET]] with [[Avery J. Johnson]], until he was severely injured from an [[insurrectionist]] bomb. Byrne was then reassigned to the planet [[Harvest]] to train a local militia with [[Avery J. Johnson]].

==Career in UNSC Marine Corps and NAVSPECWAR==

Byrne participated in [[Operation: TREBUCHET]] in [[2524]] leading [[Bravo Squad]] of a platoon of [[UNSC Special Forces|NAVSPECWAR]] marines alongside [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery J. Johnson]]. Their squads used [[Hornets]] to conduct air assaults on multiple targets in efforts to eliminate [[Rebel]] bomb making factories. However, when a rebel (armed with a bomb) was cornered in a [[Jim Dandy]] restaurant, Byrne told Johnson to fire an [[M99 Special Application Scoped Rifle]], (A.K.A gauss-rifle), at an [[Insurrectionist]] holding a child hostage. Johnson did not have a clear shot at the rebel, which lead to a civilian (a man trying to rescue his son) tackling the female rebel, who then detonated her explosives, which destroyed the Jim Dandy restaurant, along with many of the Marines in Byrne's squad and thirty eight civilians.

===[[First Battle of Harvest|Battle of Harvest]]===

After recovering from his injuries, Byrne was re-assigned along with Johnson to train the [[Colonial Militia of Harvest|Colonial Militia]] on Harvest, but their actual mission was to create an covert anti-insurgency unit, and to lay an ambush on insurgent forces suspected in the disappearances of DCS freighters around [[Harvest]]. However, He and Johnson fought four [[Jackal]]s in the first battle between the UNSC and [[Covenant]],on board the human freighter called ''This End Up'', and they successfully defeated them. Byrne and Johnson (with the rest of the militia of harvest) were also present at the initial negotiations between the [[Brutes]] and the [[Humans]]. They also fought [[Tartarus]], [[Maccabeus]] and several [[Grunts]]. One [[Osmo|militia soldier]] was torn apart by a Grunt, which sparked the firefight. As the conflict heated up, Byrne continued to defend the planet from Covenant hostiles and he received multiple injuries in the conflict. He was fortunate enough to live through the battle, and evacuated with Johnson, [[Jilan al-Cygni]], and the rest of the [[Colonial Militia]] in a Pod heading from the [[Tiara]]. What Byrne participated more in in the [[Human-Covenant War]] is currently unknown.

*Byrne lost a tooth after a prolonged scuffle with [[Sergeant Johnson]].

*In ''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'', Byrne's call sign is '''Creeper'''.<ref>''[[Halo:Contact Harvest]]'', page 208</ref>

*He is most likely [[HEV]] Orbital Drop qualified given the fact he has the same training as [[Sergeant Johnson]] while in [[UNSC Special Forces|NAVSPECWAR]].<ref>''[[Halo:Contact Harvest]]'', page 350</ref>

*It is possible that Nolan Byrne was a [[Spartan-I]] alongside fellow [[Sergeant Johnson]]. This is because in the fight they have in the beginning of the book, Byrne said: "They taught BOTH of us to be killers". But this could just be a reference to their NAVSPECWAR training or even their basic training.

*Byrne is the only character mentioned in the Halo series who is Irish.

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