- Spartans are genetically-altered super soldiers with inhuman speed, strength, and reflexes. Spartans like Sierra 117 have even saved the galaxy nearly single-handedly. - Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, despite having no genetic alterations, are dropped into hostile orbit in pods which have cooked their occupants alive in the past. These soldiers slam into the ground, pop their pods’ hatches, and immediately run past burning plasma bolts in order to overpower the enemy. Out of these two UNSC branches, which is the coolest?
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> - Spartans are genetically-altered super soldiers with inhuman speed, strength, and reflexes. Spartans like Sierra 117 have even saved the galaxy nearly single-handedly. - Orbital Drop Shock Troopers, despite having no genetic alterations, are dropped into hostile orbit in pods which have cooked their occupants alive in the past. These soldiers slam into the ground, pop their pods’ hatches, and immediately run past burning plasma bolts in order to overpower the enemy.Out of these two UNSC branches, which is the coolest?
Well for starters, the ODST’s are not their own branch. Spartans have also been known for dropping in on SOEIV’s just like the ODSt’s.
As as far as the coolness factor is concerned I think most people would be inclined to think that the Spartans are super cool, being humanities savior in all but I think it takes a special type of person to volunteer and then successfully become an ODST. So there’s that.
As previously mentioned ODSTs are only a Military Occupational Speciality (MOS) of the UNSC Marine Corps they are not their own Branch, every ODST is drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps and their funding and equipment allocation all goes through Naval Logistical Operations Command and then through the UNSC Marine Corps. Also Spartan IIs do not fall under the purview of Spartan Operations (the Spartan Branch) as all Spartan IIs were produced by the Office of Naval Intelligence and were thus on paper under the purview of the UNSC Navy and as such were enlisted as Sailors and were under the command of the Naval Special Warfare Command and Naval Special Weapons. If you’re looking for examples of Spartan Operations that would be a limited number of Spartan IIIs and Spartan IVs. As to the actual question I’ve always quite liked ODSTs more simply because of the fact that they are a natural evolution of US Army Pathfinders, US Army Rangers (though I don’t like the fact that they’re drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps, even now US Army Special Operations rely on other branches to move them from point to point so the idea that the military would suddenly decide to be hyper-logical doesn’t gel with my understanding of DOD politics).
The UNSC Marine Corps is by far my favorite.
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> As previously mentioned ODSTs are only a Military Occupational Speciality (MOS) of the UNSC Marine Corps they are not their own Branch, every ODST is drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps and their funding and equipment allocation all goes through Naval Logistical Operations Command and then through the UNSC Marine Corps. Also Spartan IIs do not fall under the purview of Spartan Operations (the Spartan Branch) as all Spartan IIs were produced by the Office of Naval Intelligence and were thus on paper under the purview of the UNSC Navy and as such were enlisted as Sailors and were under the command of the Naval Special Warfare Command and Naval Special Weapons. If you’re looking for examples of Spartan Operations that would be a limited number of Spartan IIIs and Spartan IVs. As to the actual question I’ve always quite liked ODSTs more simply because of the fact that they are a natural evolution of US Army Pathfinders, US Army Rangers (though I don’t like the fact that they’re drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps, even now US Army Special Operations rely on other branches to move them from point to point so the idea that the military would suddenly decide to be hyper-logical doesn’t gel with my understanding of DOD politics).
I think the IIs got folded into the Spartan Branch at some point, at least OFFICIALLY.
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> > As previously mentioned ODSTs are only a Military Occupational Speciality (MOS) of the UNSC Marine Corps they are not their own Branch, every ODST is drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps and their funding and equipment allocation all goes through Naval Logistical Operations Command and then through the UNSC Marine Corps. Also Spartan IIs do not fall under the purview of Spartan Operations (the Spartan Branch) as all Spartan IIs were produced by the Office of Naval Intelligence and were thus on paper under the purview of the UNSC Navy and as such were enlisted as Sailors and were under the command of the Naval Special Warfare Command and Naval Special Weapons. If you’re looking for examples of Spartan Operations that would be a limited number of Spartan IIIs and Spartan IVs. As to the actual question I’ve always quite liked ODSTs more simply because of the fact that they are a natural evolution of US Army Pathfinders, US Army Rangers (though I don’t like the fact that they’re drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps, even now US Army Special Operations rely on other branches to move them from point to point so the idea that the military would suddenly decide to be hyper-logical doesn’t gel with my understanding of DOD politics).
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No, Blue Team still retained their rates, if they’d been officially folded into Spartan Operations officially they would have had to reneged their rates.
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> > > As previously mentioned ODSTs are only a Military Occupational Speciality (MOS) of the UNSC Marine Corps they are not their own Branch, every ODST is drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps and their funding and equipment allocation all goes through Naval Logistical Operations Command and then through the UNSC Marine Corps. Also Spartan IIs do not fall under the purview of Spartan Operations (the Spartan Branch) as all Spartan IIs were produced by the Office of Naval Intelligence and were thus on paper under the purview of the UNSC Navy and as such were enlisted as Sailors and were under the command of the Naval Special Warfare Command and Naval Special Weapons. If you’re looking for examples of Spartan Operations that would be a limited number of Spartan IIIs and Spartan IVs. As to the actual question I’ve always quite liked ODSTs more simply because of the fact that they are a natural evolution of US Army Pathfinders, US Army Rangers (though I don’t like the fact that they’re drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps, even now US Army Special Operations rely on other branches to move them from point to point so the idea that the military would suddenly decide to be hyper-logical doesn’t gel with my understanding of DOD politics).
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I think thats so they can boss all the other Spartans around if they get into the field, same as how Kurt was given a LTs rank when he worked with the S-IIIs, or how Carter was a Commander.
Ranks are fiddly little things with Spartans.
Spartans all day. Both are cool but it’s an easy answer for me.
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> > > > As previously mentioned ODSTs are only a Military Occupational Speciality (MOS) of the UNSC Marine Corps they are not their own Branch, every ODST is drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps and their funding and equipment allocation all goes through Naval Logistical Operations Command and then through the UNSC Marine Corps. Also Spartan IIs do not fall under the purview of Spartan Operations (the Spartan Branch) as all Spartan IIs were produced by the Office of Naval Intelligence and were thus on paper under the purview of the UNSC Navy and as such were enlisted as Sailors and were under the command of the Naval Special Warfare Command and Naval Special Weapons. If you’re looking for examples of Spartan Operations that would be a limited number of Spartan IIIs and Spartan IVs. As to the actual question I’ve always quite liked ODSTs more simply because of the fact that they are a natural evolution of US Army Pathfinders, US Army Rangers (though I don’t like the fact that they’re drawn from the UNSC Marine Corps, even now US Army Special Operations rely on other branches to move them from point to point so the idea that the military would suddenly decide to be hyper-logical doesn’t gel with my understanding of DOD politics).
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Firstly, Spartan IVs hold no rank, Vice Admiral Musa, Squad Leaders and Spartan Company Commanders are the only real exceptions but further to the point, what Kurt was given was just a promotion nothing more than that, he was still apart of ONI, and the Spartan IIIs were under Section 3 so still apart of the Navy so that’s nothing new as for the SIIs not being folded into Spartan Operations. I have Catalog for you. Every example of rank before the Spartan Branch was when they were apart of another Branch of the military.
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Quote: “Theoretically all of Blue team has the rank Spartan now, so command may be given back to John.”
Correction: Current [frumentarii] records indicate [exploratores] designated “Blue Team” (ref: SPARTAN-II; ref: [ref: Halo Encyclopedia, p. 112) remain under NAVSPECWARCOM [ADCON]. Multiple [bureaucratic tactical] vectors by [frumentarii] to acquire full command authority.[9] - Reference: <ref>[https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/db05ce78845f4120b062c50816008e5d/topics/spoilers-john-117-is-no-longer-blue-leader/00e462e3-9293-42ac-8f61-12c0dcc878df/posts?page=2#post16 ‘’‘Halo Waypoint’’’: ‘’(Spoilers) John-117 is no longer blue leader’’ (post 2963582)]</ref>
I say ODSTs. The Spartans are cool and all, but they were made for what they do, and don’t really have much of a choice. ODSTs choose to join and put their life on the line for what they believe in
Spartan branch
I am a jun spartans are better and stronger, but i’m getting bored of my spartan so marines.
Jesus ODSTs,people thinking they are their own branch.They are just marines and otherwise referred to as Orbital Down Syndrome Troopers.But take it from the prospective of time frame and Section of the UNSC.All UNSC groups for some reason have more than the normal branches etc take for example Unicom or Highcom if I recall correctly one of those two sections literally have a branched just devoted to Security.For me it would easily be Naval Special a Warfare otherwise known as Naval Special Weapons due their highly confidential actions during the human Covenant war and before then or post operations take for example operations at the ONI outpost Argent Moon executed by Spartan-II Blue Team.Or their actions on Gao Spartan-II Blue team at the time consisting of Fred-104,Linda-058,Kelly-087,Mark G313,Ash G099,Olivia G291,Tom B292,and Lucy B091.This was easily one of my favorite times NavSpecWep/War did beautiful operations with the utmost of Caution and great execution,and shows their diversity in combat.