Editing Nolan Byrne

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'''Sergeant Major Nolan Byrne''' ([[service number]] '''48780-19114-NB'''{{Ref/Reuse|Catalog}}) was a [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine]] and a possible [[SPARTAN-I]].<ref>[http://halo.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 took part in [[Operation: TREBUCHET]] with [[Avery J. Johnson]], until he was severely injured by an [[insurrectionist]] bomb. Byrne was then reassigned to the planet [[Harvest]] to train the local militia with Johnson.

==Biography==
===Early life===
Byrne was born in Ireland, on [[Earth]] at some point during the twenty-fifth century. While his life prior to his involvement in the [[Insurrection]] is largely unknown, it is known that he was familiar with Avery Johnson before working with him in [[Operation: TREBUCHET]].<ref>''Halo: Contact Harvest'' page 83; "''I've known him a long time.''"</ref>

===Insurrection===
{{Quote|Nail the bitch, or I will!|Nolan Byrne urging [[Avery Johnson]] to shoot the Insurrectionist at the Jim Dandy diner}}
During the Insurrection, then-Staff Sergeant 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 a [[M99 Special Application Scoped Rifle|M99 Stanchion Gauss rifle]] at an [[Insurrectionist]] holding a child hostage. Johnson did not have a clear shot at the rebel, which led to the boy's father tackling the female rebel, who then detonated her explosives, destroying the Jim Dandy restaurant and killing most of the Marines in Byrne's squad plus thirty-eight civilians.

===Battle of Harvest===
{{Main|First Battle of Harvest}}
After recovering from his injuries, Byrne was reassigned, along with Johnson, to train the [[Harvest Militia|Colonial Militia]] on Harvest. He had felt great resentment at Johnson's hesitation on Tribute, and picked a fight with him as soon as he arrived on Harvest. Byrne had almost killed Johnson if [[Captain (Ground forces)|Captain]] [[Ponder]] had not intervened. Their actual mission was to create a covert anti-insurgency unit, as revealed by [[ONI]] officer [[Lieutenant Commander|Lt. Cdr.]] [[Jilan al-Cygni|al-Cygni]], and to lay an ambush on insurgent forces suspected in the disappearances of [[DCS light freighter|DCS freighter]]s around [[Harvest]]. However, he and Johnson fought four [[Kig-Yar|Jackal]]s in the first battle between the UNSC and [[Covenant]], on board a human freighter, 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 [[Jiralhanae]] and the [[human]]s. 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 managed to live through the battle, and was evacuated with Johnson, [[Jilan al-Cygni]], and the rest of the [[Colonial Militia]] in a pod heading from the [[Tiara]].

===Death===
Byrne, by this point a [[Sergeant Major]], was [[killed in action]] during the [[Battle of Earth]] on [[2552#November|November 17, 2552]].{{Ref/Reuse|Catalog}}

==Trivia==
*During the militia exercise, Byrne's call sign was '''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 Johnson while in [[UNSC Special Forces|NAVSPECWAR]].<ref>'''[[Halo:Contact Harvest]]''', page 350</ref>
*Byrne is one of two characters mentioned in the ''Halo'' series who is of Irish descent. There was also a Marine who appeared in the non-canon [[Halo E3 2000 Trailer]].
*In ''[[Halo 3]]'', with the IWHBYD Skull on, Marines may say when they throw a frag grenade on Legendary on [[Floodgate]] "this one's for Byrne!".
*Byrne's fitting death date on November 17, alongside the Marines stating his name on ''Floodgate'' and the scripted Marine dialogue in case they live, led to the speculation Byrne was the sergeant who died and was infected by the Flood on the start of the level.<ref name="Floodgate">'''Halo 3''', ''Floodgate''</ref>
==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]'' {{Mo}}

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