Wallace Jenkins

"Jenkins! Fire your weapon!"

- Sergeant Johnson, during the fight inside the Flood Containment Facility

"There are too many, Sarge!"

- Jenkins

Private First Class Wallace A. Jenkins was a Marine who appeared in Halo: Combat Evolved, Halo: The Fall of Reach, Halo: The Flood, and in the Halo Graphic Novel. He fought and died in the Battle of Installation 04.

Jenkins is first introduced in the novel Halo: Contact Harvest. He is a recruit for the makeshift militia organized to protect the planet Harvest from the impending Covenant attacks. Jenkins is a noted sharpshooter and is assigned one of the prototype BR55's. During the fight against the Covenant on Harvest, Jenkins' whole family is killed. After escaping from Harvest, Staff Sergeant Johnson offers Jenkins the chance to become a real Marine in Johnson's unit ( Halo: Contact Harvest ).

He also appears in the Halo Universe when his FOF tag is detected by SPARTAN-117 and SPARTAN-058 aboard Reach Station Gamma during the Battle of Reach. He is a member of Staff Sergeant Johnson's squad. The group is fighting a pack of Jackals and with the help of SPARTAN-117, they manage to destroy the database of the Circumference and escape the station aboard a Pelican. Then they proceed to board the Pillar of Autumn and travel to Installation 04. Once there, the ship is attacked by the Covenant once again, and it is assumed that Jenkins escapes the ship in the same lifeboat as Sergeant Johnson and his squad. After meeting up with the Chief, they take Pelican Echo 419 to where the ODST detachment of the vessel is encamped. He then goes to Alpha Base with the sergeant and his squad. There he is not mentioned for some time.

Later he takes Pelican Victor 933 to what his squad thinks is a Covenant weapons cache, but turns out to be one of the Flood Containment Facilities. There, he, Captain Keyes, Sergeant Johnson, Private Bisenti, and Private Manuel Mendoza, and others are attacked by the Flood for the first time in Halo. In the fight a Infection Form latches on to him and takes over his body.

He drops his helmet, which is later picked up by the Chief, who watches the horrifying attack via the Recorder Chip of Jenkins' Helmet Recorder. The video ends suddenly, right as the flood form hits Jenkins, infects, and then kills him.



He and his entire squad, except Johnson, are turned into Combat Forms. However, in Jenkins' case, his Infection Form is weakened from the centuries of containment, and it cannot control him fully. He watches in terror as he loses control of his mutated body and the form moves his body around and attacks his mind.

Jenkins' combat form follows a group of Flood to the surface where they attack a group of Marines under command of First Lieutenant Melissa McKay. Without complete control over his body, Jenkins, who is desperate to end his own life, attempts to get killed while assaulting the Lieutenant, but instead he is captured by the ODSTs, who take him prisoner. Major Antonio Silva tries to interrogate him and Jenkins reveals an imminent threat to the base from the Flood. He is later taken to the Truth and Reconciliation while the Marines assault the ship. Jenkins, knowing that Silva plans to take the ship home to Earth, overwhelms the Infection form inside him and tries to destroy the ship, because he knows that there are more Flood present aboard it and that they would inevitably escape and destroy Earth. He fails to do so, but Lieutenant McKay, seeing the truth as well, destroys the vessel for him. The destruction then takes his life, mercifully ending his suffering.

Trivia

 * He was one of the first people to use the BR55 Battle Rifle, which entered service in 2524.
 * Jenkins was trained as Harvest colonial militia by Avery Johnson, and when Harvest was lost and Jenkins' parents were killed in the attack, Johnson offered Jenkins the chance to become a real UNSC marine.
 * Jenkins is voiced by voice actor Chris Wicklund.