In the opening scene, Captain Del Rio is scene rocking the Army Service Ribbon, a National Defense Medal, and a Southwest Asia Campaign Medal (Gulf/Iraq War). All of these are current ARMY medals. This leads me to one of several theories:
- Del Rio is an immortal soldier possibly working with ONI (which explains why he such a -Yoink-…)
- The UNSC is WAAAAAYYYY lax on “Stolen Valor” in the future…
- Somebody in 343’s character design department is so damn lazy they can’t even come up with some colored futuristic military medals…
Come on, dude.
If I talk on forums enough, I won’t have to type this out anymore. Yay…