Phoenix Logs/UNSC Units/Major Vaughan


 * lst Squad, lst Platoon, B Company, 9th Shock Troops Battalion.


 * Major Vaughan's command squad, callsign Sunray 1-1, is the lead element of
 * Boomerang Company, the UNSC's most elite force of Orbital Drop Shock
 * Troopers [though that's what they all say].


 * The Mustang.


 * Born to a family of politicians and corporate executives, Vaughan lived a life of
 * privilege and luxury in the most prestigious of Earth's arcologies. But when a
 * family squabble escalated, a rebellious young Vaughan made the worst and best
 * decision of his life by enlisting in the UNSC Marines.


 * Rammed through boot camp during the height of the insurrection, Vaughan
 * had no time to regret his decision before shipping off to war against terrorists
 * and separatist movements in the Outer Colonies. His first duty station as a
 * green recruit was the Spirit of Fire, an old ship retasked with transporting
 * UNSC military and police forces to colonies it once established. Few appreciated
 * the irony more than Vaughan, given the role his own family played in
 * exacerbating colonial tensions.


 * Years later he found himself on the Spirit of Fire again, this time as a
 * commissioned ODST officer on a campaign against the alien Covenant that
 * would take him from half-glassed colonies to ancient Forerunner shield worlds,
 * and beyond. It's been a long road, but Vaughan takes solace in the fact that
 * this is definitely not the course his family had pre—charted for him.


 * The Spirit of Fire's unusual situation makes Vaughan one of the highest-ranking
 * UNSC officers in the Ark conflict, but he prefers to leave strategy and high—level
 * operational planning to the experts. He's a Helljumper, and his place is in a drop
 * pod plunging feet-first and on fire into the cauldron of battle. In addition to
 * coordinating Boomerang Company's deployments and leading the command
 * squad, Vaughan carries the squad's SPNKr rocket launcher, which he
 * occasionally uses as a blunt teaching instrument to knock sense into younger
 * ODSTs.