SPARTAN III's (?)

Did anyone else notice the soldiers in the background behind the Chief during the campaign trailer? There was two of them and they had a similar-looking helmet to the Mark V B helmet (the default helm in Halo Reach), which certainly made me think immediately of SPARTAN III’s.

Of course, they could just be a graphically updated design of ODST’s or Marines.

The one with white armor’s probably a marine.

The one’s in the background I suspect will be the Player 2/3/4 player models.

Edit: They’re not S-III’s since all S-III’s are already in the S-IV program. Any S-IV could be a S-III.

I think they’re either ODSTs or Spartan-IVs.

Spartan IVs can wear the same armor

> The one with white armor’s probably a marine.
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> The one’s in the background I suspect will be the Player 2/3/4 player models.
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> Edit: They’re not S-III’s since all S-III’s are already in the S-IV program. Any S-IV could be a S-III.

Ah, so they were all moved and upgraded into the S-IV program after they were evacuated from the Onyx shieldworld.

Btw, did the S-II’s also get moved into the S-IV program?

> > The one with white armor’s probably a marine.
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> > The one’s in the background I suspect will be the Player 2/3/4 player models.
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> > Edit: They’re not S-III’s since all S-III’s are already in the S-IV program. Any S-IV could be a S-III.
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> Ah, so they were all moved and upgraded into the S-IV program after they were evacuated from the Onyx shieldworld.
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> Btw, did the S-II’s also get moved into the S-IV program?

Yes, all surviving S-III’s and probably the S-II’s were integrated into the S-IV program.