Talk:S/VRC-8

Why is this a group of Marines?
This marking on the Halo 3 Pelican seems to be exactly the same as the marking seen on the Warthog and Mongoose in that the follow the same form X/XXX-X. In the case of the Warthog, M/AAV-20 stands for Marines/All-purpose Armored Vehicle. Similarly, the Halo 3 Mongoose sports M/LAT-16 which is Marines/Light Armored Transport. Logically, S/VRC-8 would be some initialism that would designate the Pelican as an aircraft. It would also imply the Halo 3 variant is the 8th such version of the vehicle. I haven't found as yet what each letter means but I am working on it. I'm not sure where the Marines interpretation came from in this article considering how the other Halo 3 vehicles mentioned have their letters spelled out and known.

Incidentally, it's a known internal error with 343i that the Reach Mongoose was erroneously tagged with the M/AAV-20 tag meant for the Warthog. (It had to do with the master texture file that contained several logos and decals.) I tried to get the pictures in the first Visual Guide to not show it but it didn't work. It did influence it not being applied to the Halo 4 version. The designation of the Halo 4 Mongoose is inferred in the Halo 4 Visual Guide's text as M/LAT-17 by me (there now being 17 versions of the Mongoose by that time). -ScaleMaster117 (talk) 08:02, 6 July 2014 (EDT)