Fire Team Charlie

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Fire Team Charlie was a United Nations Space Command Orbital Drop Shock Trooper unit stationed aboard the Pillar of Autumn that actively participated in the Battle of Installation 04.

Appearances
During the assault on the Truth and Reconciliation, Fire Team Charlie, led by Sergeant Parker, helped SPARTAN-117 assault the Covenant ship to rescue Captain Jacob Keyes. This marine strike team was professionally murdered by Stealth Elites armed with Energy Swords once separated from SPARTAN-117. However, from Cortana's reports, the marines gave a good fight against their attackers, as SPARTAN-117 came across several Covenant Elite corpses, ridden with bullet holes. Fire Team Charlie did not die in vain: Captain Jacob Keyes was freed from his Covenant prison cell by the SPARTAN-117. It is presumed that some of Fire Team Charlie survived the battle on the Truth and Reconciliation because some of the Marines were kept in reserves.

Fire Team Charlie also was seen in Halo: Combat Evolved in the first scene of level Pillar of Autumn, but were not named until the second level, Halo. This Fire Team Charlie was part of Staff Sergeant Johnson's Platoon and was with Captain Keyes and Johnson when they went searching for a weapons cache that turned out to be the Flood in 343 Guilty Spark (Level). Fire Team Charlie's Marines were either turned into Flood Combat Forms or went MIA either onboard the Truth and Reconciliation, or near Alpha Base. The only known "survivor" of the expedition to search for the "weapons" was Jenkins, who was controlled by a weaker Infection Form. He proceeded to alert the Marines of the Flood's presence below Alpha Base and the newly captured Truth and Reconciliation, his actions leading to the marines destroying and going down with their ship, all hands with it- but preventing the Flood from escaping Halo. The victims of the Infection Forms were either killed by Johnson during his flee from the weapons cache, destroyed by SPARTAN-117 during his escape from the facility, defeated by McKay's ODST Platoon, destroyed aboard the Infinite Succor, or were killed during the destruction of Halo.

Members

 * Avery Junior Johnson - Staff Sergeant
 * Chips Dubbo - Private First Class - reassigned to Second Squad for Weapons caché mission.
 * Manuel Mendoza - Private
 * Wallace A. Jenkins - Private First Class
 * Kappus - Private, technical specialist
 * Bisenti - Private
 * Fitzgerald - Private First Class
 * Riley - Private
 * O'Brien - Private (possibly reassigned after Battle of Reach)
 * "Crazy Marine" - unknown rank - assigned to Charlie Team for Weapons Caché mission.

Trivia

 * Interestingly, though it is not known if really related, the first letters (or 'initials') of "Fire Team Charlie" (FTC) are the reverse of the 'initials' for the incredibly popular gametype, "Capture the Flag" (CTF).
 * Strangely, Chips Dubbo was the only survivor of Fire Team Charlie from the weapons cache mission. He was either lucky to have survived or did not participate in the mission.
 * Fire Team Charlie is actually misnamed. The correct term is Combat team.

Internal Links

 * UNSC Marine Corps
 * Fire Team Zulu