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In the morning of 17 November, 2552, Sergeant Major Avery Johnson would lead [[First Squad]] and [[Second Squad#Recovering Spartan-117|Second Squad]] into the jungles of Tanzania to recover John-117, using the triangulation data acquired by forces [[Battle of Sector Six|fighting]] near the [[Pakistan]]-Afghanistan border in [[Sector Six]]. [[Bravo Team]], led by [[Sergeant]] [[Reynolds]], was also deployed nearby.

Johnson and his team discovered the Spartan lying in a supine position at the end of an impact crater with his [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark VI|armor]] locked into place by it's [[Hydrostatic gel|gel layer]]. The Spartan remained unconscious until the [[Unidentified Corpsman|Corpsman]] partially unlocked John's armor, and woke up just as Johnson instructed his Marines to call in heavy lifting gear to extract the Spartan. After John-117 reported Cortana had remained on High Charity, the Corpsman fully unlocked Spartan’s armor.  

The recovery team was joined by [[Arbiter]] [[Thel 'Vadam]], who, upon disengaging his [[active camouflage]], was briefly accosted by John-117. Johnson quickly defused the situation, and the ‘Vadam reported the Jiralhanar has caught their scent.{{Ref/Reuse|arrival}}  

Johnson ordered First Squad to scout ahead of the rest of the unit. The squad moved ahead, with Second Squad along with himself, John and Thel following behind. As they made their way through a path in the jungle, Johnson informed [[Reynolds|Gunnery Sergeant Reynolds]] of [[Bravo Team]] that they had recovered the Master Chief. A short distance ahead, the group heard a Jiralhanae howling and Reynolds radioed in warning Johnson of the presence of Covenant troops in the jungle, having spotted a [[pack]] of Jiralhanae but the transmission was laced with static. As the team approached a waterfall, they were forced to take cover as a [[Type-52 Phantom]] flew overhead. Fearful that they would be spotted more quickly in a large unit, Johnson split the team. John and Thel went with First Squad, which was led by [[Marcus Stacker|Gunnery Sergeant Stacker]] while he took command of Second Squad and ascended the nearby cliff-face to take an alternate route to the extraction point at a nearby river. As John and his team passed a nearby fallen log, they spotted a Jiralhanae [[Jiralhanae Captain Major|Captain Major]] standing on a large rock, ordering its [[Unggoy]] subordinates to find the humans. With a Marine's warning of the Brute's [[Jiralhanae power armor|power armor]], the group engaged the scouting patrol. When the Jiralhanae collapsed dead, Thel remarked that they were foolish to do the bidding of the deceitful [[San'Shyuum]]. As the team approached a larger pond, a Phantom swooped down, it's [[Unggoy Heavy|gunner]] providing suppressing fire with the dropship's side-mounted [[Type-52 plasma cannon|plasma cannon]] while its complement of infantry deployed and another dropship unloaded more troops further along the water's edge. The team managed to fight their way through, killing a number of Jiralhanae Captains and their Unggoy soldiers before regrouping at a nearby cave entrance. As the Marines noted the more valorous nature of the Unggoy, Thel stated that this was due to their fear of their Jiralhanae commanders. On the other side of the small cave, the group came upon a large open area where Covenant troops were encamped. A Marine suggested that John take advantage of the sleeping Unggoy on their side of the camp to thin down the enemy numbers silently. Eventually the group was spotted and the camp erupted in gunfire, with several Jiralhanae officers leading large numbers of Unggoy and [[Kig-Yar]] against the humans and Sangheili. After clearing the Covenant camp, Sergeant Johnson radioed the Chief, telling him that [[D77H-TCI Pelican|Pelicans]] were on their way to the river but he had been unable to raise Bravo Team. Around the next bend, they discovered a Jiralhanae Captain holding Reynolds on top of a collapsed log. The Covenant officer demanded the location of the [[Crow's Nest (location)|nearby UNSC base]], to which the Gunnery Sergeant refused to answer. Before the Brute could kill the Marine, John managed to eliminate the Captain and his subordinates. After arming himself with a nearby assault rifle, Reynolds reported that his team had been attacked by a Phantom and Covenant troops led by a [[Jiralhanae Chieftain]] who had killed the rest of his team. The group, now accompanied by Reynolds, proceeded towards the river, killing another unit of Covenant soldiers as they went.{{Ref/Reuse|s117}}