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• March: Dr. Graham Alban, one of ONI's scientists who worked on the SPARTAN-II Program, becomes disillusioned with the ethical implications of the project, and commits suicide.
• July 19: From a classified location, Codename: COALMINER sends a transmission to Codename: SURGEON at the Reach Military Complex, discussing Operation: HYPODERMIC and the beginning of the SPARTAN-III Program.
• August 24: Paul DeMarco is born.
• December 27: The children for the SPARTAN-III Program's Alpha Company are brought on Onyx and undergo a test to determine who will stay or wash out.
• Photojournalist Jake Courage gets into a disagreement with his editor. Although the details remain ambiguous, it is believed that Courage wanted to print a series of pictures from a deadly Grunt attack. His editor refuses on the grounds that they are too graphic, and so Courage leaves the paper and staged his own exhibition. The photos won him critical acclaim and set him up as a well-respected war photographer.

• Randall goes MIA (possibly KIA).