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Kurt's leadership skills were correctly observed, as he later became one of the earliest known leaders of the Spartan-IIs' Green Team, which would often beat John's [[Blue Team]] in field exercises.<ref name="GOOpage33"/> | Kurt's leadership skills were correctly observed, as he later became one of the earliest known leaders of the Spartan-IIs' Green Team, which would often beat John's [[Blue Team]] in field exercises.<ref name="GOOpage33"/> | ||
On [[2526|March 5, 2526]], Kurt-051 led Spartan Green Team on an operation to recover Covenant technology, specifically by capturing a [[Covenant]] [[Radiant Arrow|vessel]]. Working alongside them were Spartan teams Blue and [[Gold Team|Gold]], for a total of twelve Spartans. This attempt at capture went awry when the starship’s [[self-destruct]] sequence was activated by its [[Shipmaster]], forcing Kurt and the other Spartans to evacuate.<ref>’’’[[Halo: Silent Storm]]’’’,’’chapters 1-3’’</ref> Just two days later, all three teams were assigned to Operation: SILENT STORM, a mission intended to give the UNSC time to develop effective countermeasures against the Covenant.<ref>’’’[[Halo: Silent Storm]]’’’,’’chapter 5’’</ref> | |||
Kurt took part in the raid on [[Biko]]’s moon [[Seoba]], where [[Task Force Yama]] intended to stage its first attack on an inbound Covenant fleet. Unbeknownst to the task force until their arrival, [[Insurrectionist]] forces had already chosen the moon as a place to negotiate with the Covenant<ref>’’’[[Halo: Silent Storm]]’’’,’’page 133’’</ref>, but these were quickly routed by the Spartans and their [[21st Space Assault Battalion|Black Dagger ODST]] allies, and the survivors taken prisoner. When the Covenant attacked, a prowler known as the [[UNSC Starry Night|Starry Night]] was shot down, but not destroyed. Kurt and Green Team helped to rescue the few surviving passengers, and fend off Covenant forces before they could steal anything from the prowler. Later, when [[Marmon Crowther|Colonel Marmon Crowther]] sent the Spartans on a covert mission to attack a Covenant logistics train over the planet [[Etalan]], Kurt and teams Green and Gold would be tasked with piloting [[S-14 Baselard]]s, for the purpose of infiltrating logistics vessels and placing [[HAVOK tactical nuclear weapon|Havok nukes]] within their hulls. Once the Baselards were close enough to their targets, Kurt and the others would exit the fighter craft (which would then serve as decoys) and use extra-vehicular activity to board the enemy ships.<ref>’’’[[Halo: Silent Storm]]’’’,’’page 251’’</ref> He and the other seven Spartans successfully destroyed four logistics vessels using these tactics. When their prowler escorts moved to extract them from orbit, it created an unintentional diversion that helped Blue Team deliver the killing punch to the convoy’s munitions carriers.<ref>’’’[[Halo: Silent Storm]]’’’,’’chapter 20’’</ref> | |||
Kurt’s final mission as part of SILENT STORM would follow three weeks later, when he, the Spartan teams, and what remained of the Black Daggers all ventured into Covenant space, to strike at the heart of one of their supply depots.<ref>'''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]''',''chapter 24''</ref> The Spartans ended up inserting on the surface of [[Naraka]], a planet that housed Forerunner cities, and was the anchor for a massive Covenant support station, a ring structure aptly titled [[“The Ring of Mighty Abundance.”]]<ref>'''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]''',''page 342''</ref> They were ferried down to the surface by their prowlers, but because this was an improvised plan, Covenant resistance was too heavy for some of the prowlers to finish the insertion run. Only Green and Blue Teams made it to the ground, while Gold Team’s prowlers were forced to withdraw, and Green’s ship crashed during the final drop. However, Kurt, his team, and a handful of Black Daggers survived, and made their way up into the ring structure via one of the massive gravity lifts connecting the station to the surface. Each Spartan was equipped with a Havok nuke, and two tubs of [[octanitrocubane]] explosives; the ODSTs also carried octas.<ref>’’’[[Halo: Silent Storm]]’’’,’’page 329’’</ref> With these, Green Team managed to destroy roughly three sections of the ring, greatly assisting Blue in the process. The ring became unstable, and after a final detonation from Blue Team, it collapsed and began to crumble into the atmosphere. Kurt and Green Team evacuated, and were picked up by the prowler [[UNSC Night Watch|Night Watch]], as were most of the other survivors of Operation: SILENT STORM.<ref>’’’[[Halo: Silent Storm]]’’’,’’chapter 27’’</ref> Safely on board the Night Watch, Kurt sat with his fellow Spartans and Sergeant [[Avery Johnson]], and viewed the ongoing destruction of the Ring of Mighty Abundance. When it came time for the octas carried by fallen or captured “Green Team” Daggers to automatically detonate, he and the others saw eight corresponding explosions, six of which were in the nearby Covenant support fleet. Thus concluded Kurt-051’s involvement in Operation: SILENT STORM.<ref>’’’[[Halo: Silent Storm]]’’’,’’epilogue’’</ref> | |||
===Camp New Hope=== | ===Camp New Hope=== | ||
