Editing Gomez (ODST)

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{{Center|''For the [[UNSC Navy|Naval officer]] from ''[[Halo: Escalation]]'', see [[Gomez]].''}}
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{{Quote|You know Gogo. Loves to make an entrance.|[[Svensdottir]] on her squadmate's driving during the [[Battle of Sargasso]]<ref name="nb35">'''[[Halo: New Blood]]''', ''page 35''</ref>}}

'''Gomez''', nicknamed '''Gogo''', was a [[UNSC Marine Corps|UNSC Marine]] [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers|Shock Trooper]], who served during the [[Battle of Sargasso]] in 2546 as a member of [[Edward Buck]]'s squad, [[Alpha-Nine]].<ref name="nb29">'''Halo: New Blood''', ''page 29''</ref>

==Biography==
{{Main|Battle of Sargasso}}
During the battle, Alpha-Nine was sent in to retrieve an important data chip from a [[Lethbridge Industrial]] facility in the town of [[Belisk]] while [[Gamma-Six|another squad]] provided their distraction.<ref name="nb29">'''Halo: New Blood''', ''page 29''</ref>

Gomez complained of sore legs after being dropped off outside the city by the team's transport. After being thrown from the cargo bay of a hotwired truck by a [[plasma]] missile, Buck ordered Gomez to help an injured [[Svensdottir]] to safety, later reporting in to Buck that she was OK. Gomez breached the door to the facility and helped eliminate a [[Covenant]] [[lance]] in the foyer.<ref name="nb32">'''Halo: New Blood''', ''page 32''</ref> He later found a flatbed truck for their extraction and smashed it into the foyer, picking up the squad and speeding to their extraction point, but was eventually forced to double-back into the town once Buck picked up Gamma-Six's distress call from its [[Sarah Palmer|sole survivor]]. Once in the main plaza, Gomez took out a group of Brutes by side-sweeping the flatbed into their encampment and later helped recover fallen ODSTs from Gamma-Six.<ref name="nb38">'''Halo: New Blood''', ''page 38''</ref>

Following the battle, Gomez laughed at Buck's attempt to explain his insubordination to their [[Office of Naval Intelligence]] mission handler, [[Veronica Dare]]. He was then dismissed from the room with the rest of Alpha-Nine.<ref name="nb41">'''Halo: New Blood''', ''page 41''</ref>

Gomez would later perish in the war well before it was over.<ref name="nb40">'''Halo: New Blood''', ''page 40''</ref>

==Trivia==
Given his surname, it is likely that he was of Spanish descent.

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: New Blood]]'' {{1st}}

==Sources==
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