John, Frederick, Kelly and Linda grew together and the game described them as a family. Blue Team is family and they call them by their name except one person. Why Blue Team is calling Master Chief Chief? Isn’t better to call him John instead of Chief while everyone else is calling him Master Chief or Chief. Make Blue Team call him John. That would sound more friendly and give more feeling of “family”.
In forward unto down master chief himself said call him master chief to the recruits he rescued so maybe he just preferred to be called chief. Every one has always called him chief… except Dr. Hasley.
He is called Chief for many reasons
- Rank - Distinguish him as leader - Respect - Admiration - There previous leader and teacher was sometimes called Chief by the IIs - Nickname (Kelly was known as Rabbit so all the IIs could have an inside nickname)John made a habit of trying to distance himself from his teammates friend wise during missions and instead focused on looking like a confident leader that the rest of them could trust and look up to instead of being apprehensive or worried, I assume the Chief part was just naturally added by the other Spartan IIs over the years.
Someone else would probably give a better explanation than I have but its essentially about showing him as something the other IIs can look up to, its been ages since ive read why myself.
They are like family but they call the MC chief because of respect and aggressive indoctrination; he was their leader throughout training and on many of their missions. This also explains why Fred defers matters to the chief despite outranking him.
They put some respek on his name.
Even though they are considered family, they were all brought up in a military program. It’s probably a habit, as well as a sign of respect for John-117.
Elites in H3 called him “Reclaimer”
Buck was the one who made the family analogy and he doesn’t really know any of them except for the Chief, unless he’s met the others in some novel or comic book. They may very well be “like family”, though a military family. And as others have said calling him Chief is probably old habit. Besides, even Cortana calls him Chief and she’s maybe even closer to him than Blue Team. Though she hasn’t known him as long. She calls him John as well, but also calls him Chief a lot, all the way through Halo 4. I don’t recall her calling him that in Guardians as she mostly calls him by his name. But as Chief pointed out she was using psychological tactics, saying his name, playing nice.
In Naval tradition the rank of Chief was something of great respect as the Command Officer had to appoint you to Chief (at the time of it’s creation) based a need to keep a technical expert in the Navy or to fill a leadership need. The rank of Master Chief at its creation was meant to prolong the US Navy Sailor career even longer past the rank of Chief. It is a sign of respect that 1) John made it such a young age/so quickly 2) because it is a sign of his overall leadership to the team, as junior officers, which are considered ensigns to LTs, are “trained” by Chiefs when they first enter into Naval service, and is what rank Fred is 3) Remember that all of the these Spartans have been enlisted/conscripted for nearly 30+ years and he is the only one with a “high” rank. As in the Halo 5 extras that came with the upgraded versions Kelly and Linda are only Petty Officer 1st Classes (“middle” ranks sixth of nine) while Fred is an LT (the third officer rank of nine). Both of these ranks can be made within 5-8 years typically in current Naval service, Master Chief on the other hand can take upwards of 15-20 years of service.
I agree , maybe because in the newest movie made halo fall of reach it explains how he was the leader of there squad , maybe its just coincidental slang they use beings he was the leader
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> John, Frederick, Kelly and Linda grew together and the game described them as a family. Blue Team is family and they call them by their name except one person. Why Blue Team is calling Master Chief Chief? Isn’t better to call him John instead of Chief while everyone else is calling him Master Chief or Chief. Make Blue Team call him John. That would sound more friendly and give more feeling of “family”.
It’s out of respect.
Respect and habit. Calling someone another name over time starts to just fall in line if that makes sense.
For example though it won’t relate to much. My name is Rudolph, but family, friends and myself refer to me as Rudy. Overtime people just started to use that over my actual name. Sometimes Rudolph slips through the cracks but very rarely. So for MC calling someone MC or Chief over many years they just become Chief.
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> They put some respek on his name.
2-1-6!
Because 343i doesn’t realize how close Blue Team is to Chief and didn’t make them call him John like they always have.
Even though they respect Master Chief and he led them throughout boot camp and missions. I think it’s better to call him John than Chief for Blue Team.
I think John would be appropriate in a non battlefield setting
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> He is called Chief for many reasons
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> - Rank
> - Distinguish him as leader
> - Respect
> - Admiration
> - There previous leader and teacher was sometimes called Chief by the IIs
> - Nickname (Kelly was known as Rabbit so all the IIs could have an inside nickname)
> John made a habit of trying to distance himself from his teammates friend wise during missions and instead focused on looking like a confident leader that the rest of them could trust and look up to instead of being apprehensive or worried, I assume the Chief part was just naturally added by the other Spartan IIs over the years.
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> Someone else would probably give a better explanation than I have but its essentially about showing him as something the other IIs can look up to, its been ages since ive read why myself.
100% agree
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> In Naval tradition the rank of Chief was something of great respect as the Command Officer had to appoint you to Chief (at the time of it’s creation) based a need to keep a technical expert in the Navy or to fill a leadership need. The rank of Master Chief at its creation was meant to prolong the US Navy Sailor career even longer past the rank of Chief. It is a sign of respect that 1) John made it such a young age/so quickly 2) because it is a sign of his overall leadership to the team, as junior officers, which are considered ensigns to LTs, are “trained” by Chiefs when they first enter into Naval service, and is what rank Fred is 3) Remember that all of the these Spartans have been enlisted/conscripted for nearly 30+ years and he is the only one with a “high” rank. As in the Halo 5 extras that came with the upgraded versions Kelly and Linda are only Petty Officer 1st Classes (“middle” ranks sixth of nine) while Fred is an LT (the third officer rank of nine). Both of these ranks can be made within 5-8 years typically in current Naval service, Master Chief on the other hand can take upwards of 15-20 years of service.
Great posting, although Chiefs are now appointed by Congress, and the Commanding Officer does not have the authority to take the rank away like they do other ranks. They are the experts in their field and leaders as well, training both officer and enlisted in whatever field they specialize in.
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> > In Naval tradition the rank of Chief was something of great respect as the Command Officer had to appoint you to Chief (at the time of it’s creation) based a need to keep a technical expert in the Navy or to fill a leadership need. The rank of Master Chief at its creation was meant to prolong the US Navy Sailor career even longer past the rank of Chief. It is a sign of respect that 1) John made it such a young age/so quickly 2) because it is a sign of his overall leadership to the team, as junior officers, which are considered ensigns to LTs, are “trained” by Chiefs when they first enter into Naval service, and is what rank Fred is 3) Remember that all of the these Spartans have been enlisted/conscripted for nearly 30+ years and he is the only one with a “high” rank. As in the Halo 5 extras that came with the upgraded versions Kelly and Linda are only Petty Officer 1st Classes (“middle” ranks sixth of nine) while Fred is an LT (the third officer rank of nine). Both of these ranks can be made within 5-8 years typically in current Naval service, Master Chief on the other hand can take upwards of 15-20 years of service.
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> Great posting, although Chiefs are now appointed by Congress, and the Commanding Officer does not have the authority to take the rank away like they do other ranks. They are the experts in their field and leaders as well, training both officer and enlisted in whatever field they specialize in.
It indeed a good post but there are Spartans who have been given the commission to the officer ranks. As can be seen by Fred being a LT.
The UNSC is obviously modeled after modern USN and USMC ranking models. A very noticeable difference is that the UNSC is very slow to promote in some cases (Buck should be a Master Gunnery Sergeant and the other ODST in Halo 3: ODST should definitely NOT be privates and Lance corporals.) On the other hand, you have Lasky who was somehow the XO and then the CO of the UNSC Flagship, which one would imagine be Lord Hoods ship.
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> Elites in H3 called him “Reclaimer”
That’s because humans are the reclaimers, the heirs to what the forerunners left.