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Two years later, Mendez took them to a training mission in the [[Military Wilderness Training Preserve]]. Pieces of paper were distributed, fragments of a map of the local region that had been shredded. They were set down alone to navigate to the marked extraction point and picked up there by an [[D96-TCE Albatross|Albatross dropship]]. They were told that the last one to the extraction point would be left behind and have to walk back.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 63''</ref> | Two years later, Mendez took them to a training mission in the [[Military Wilderness Training Preserve]]. Pieces of paper were distributed, fragments of a map of the local region that had been shredded. They were set down alone to navigate to the marked extraction point and picked up there by an [[D96-TCE Albatross|Albatross dropship]]. They were told that the last one to the extraction point would be left behind and have to walk back.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 63''</ref> | ||
Instead, however, the Spartans combined their strengths to meet up together at a lake near to the LZ. They discovered | Instead, however, the Spartans combined their strengths to meet up together at a lake near to the LZ. They discovered an Albatross dropship, as promised, but the occupants were not in uniform and carried live-ammunition weapons. The Spartans lured the men into an ambush, either knocking them out or killing them. They then hijacked the Albatross and John contacted Déjà, who remotely piloted the dropship back to base. John made sure he was last to board the Albatross to make sure that nobody else would have to walk home.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 71''</ref> | ||
John was made team leader for his planning of the Spartans reaction to the training operation.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 72''</ref> | John was made team leader for his planning of the Spartans reaction to the training operation.<ref>'''Halo: The Fall of Reach''', ''page 72''</ref> | ||