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'''"Doc" Valdez''' was a [[Hospital Corpsman]] assigned to the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} and its [[Twenty-Second Tactical|contingent]] of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|Marine Shock Troops]].
'''"Doc" Valdez''' was a [[Hospital Corpsman]] assigned to the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} and its [[Twenty-Second Tactical|contingent]] of [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper|Marine Shock Troops]].<ref name="HTFC1">''[[Halo: The Flood]]'', Chapter 1</ref>


==Biography==
==Biography==
When the ''Pillar of Autumn'' fled during the [[Battle of Reach]] and found itself at [[Installation 04]], Valdez persisted in his duties tending the wounded and dead even as the [[Covenant]] began to board the ship. As the fight progressed he, together with the remaining ODSTs, sought to defend the engine room where his medical skills were used to treat [[First Lieutenant]] [[Melissa McKay]] for a [[plasma]] burn on her arm <ref>'''[[Halo: The Flood]]''', Chapter 1, ''page 34'' (2003 paperback); ''page 37'' (2010 paperback)</ref>
When the ''Pillar of Autumn'' fled during the [[Battle of Reach]] and found itself at [[Installation 04]], Valdez persisted in his duties tending the wounded and dead even as the [[Covenant]] began to board the ship. As the fight progressed he, together with the remaining ODSTs, sought to defend the engine room where his medical skills were used to treat [[First Lieutenant]] [[Melissa McKay]] for a [[plasma]] burn on her arm.<ref name="HTFC1"/>


Valdez' fate is unknown as is whether he died aboard the ''Pillar of Autumn'' or evacuated to the surface of the Installation, as he is not mentioned afterward. His death is confirmed when either the captured ''Truth and Reconciliation'' was destroyed or when John-117 destroyed Halo.
Valdez' fate is unknown as is whether he died aboard the ''Pillar of Autumn'' or evacuated to the surface of the Installation, as he is not mentioned afterward. His death is confirmed when either the captured ''Truth and Reconciliation'' was destroyed or when John-117 destroyed Halo.