Editing Taylor Miles

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{{Character Infobox|variant=Human

|image       = [[File:DutchODST.png|300px]]

|homeworld   = [[Losantiville]], [[Seven Hills]], [[Mars]]<ref name="ENC">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 61''</ref>

|birth       = [[2519|June 3, 2519]]<ref name="ENC"/>

|rank        = [[Corporal]]

|species     = [[Human]]

|gender     = Male

|height     = {{Convert|190|cm|ft}}<ref name="visual">'''[[Halo: The Essential Visual Guide]]''', ''page 53''</ref>

|mass       = {{Convert|91|kg|lb}}<ref name="ENC"/>

|hair       = Brown

*Blonde (as depicted in ''[[Halo Legends]]'')

|eyes        = Brown

*Blue (as depicted in ''Halo Legends'')

|sn=21175-12121-TM

|affiliation = [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine Corps]]

'''Corporal Taylor H. "Dutch" Miles'''<ref name="ENC"/> ([[service number]] '''21175-12121-TM''') is a [[Corporal|non-commissioned officer]] in the [[UNSC Marine Corps]] and an [[Orbital Drop Shock Trooper]].<ref name="fieldguide">[http://www.bungie.net/projects/odst/guide.aspx '''Bungie.net''': ''Halo 3: ODST Field Guide'']</ref> He served in a [[Buck's squad|squad]] led by [[Gunnery Sergeant]] [[Edward Buck]] during the [[Battle of Earth]]. He is married to [[Gretchen Ketola]], a fellow ODST.

=== Early life and military career===

Taylor H. Miles was born in [[2519]] in [[Losantiville]], [[Seven Hills]], [[Mars]]. Originally a road-train driver before becoming an ODST, his former occupation has prepared him for the arduous tasks of a heavy weapons specialist and driver in the ODSTs. He also went to university for some time, studying religion and philosophy, as he was interested in the subjects at the time.<ref name="oni"/> During this time, he adopted a world view he would carry for the rest of his life.<ref name="video"/>

He was drafted while attending university<ref name="video"/> and properly enlisted on [[2540|September 9th, 2540]]; he eventually became a corporal.<ref name="fieldguide"/> The last time he visited Earth prior to the Battle of Earth was at a weekend pass, the day before he applied to the ODSTs. During his time in the Marine Corps, he befriended [[Kojo Agu|Romeo]] and became romantically involved with another marine, [[Gretchen Ketola]], who he later married. Gretchen's injury by an [[Insurrectionist]] mine changed Miles' personality and he became more serious than before.<ref name="helljumper"/> He also served in operations on the [[Coral]] asteroid belt, and the [[Jericho Space Elevator]].<ref name="oni"/>

{{Main|Raid on Heian}}

Some time before 2551, Miles was stationed on [[Unidentified destroyer (The Babysitter)|destroyer ''DD-933'']] as a part of a squad led by [[Master Sergeant]] [[Cortez]], along with a contingent of ODSTs from the [[105th Shock Troops Division]].<ref>'''Halo Legends:''' ''The Babysitter''</ref><ref> As Miles enlisted in 2540, the mission on Heian had to have occurred during or after 2540. During the mission, Cal-141 wore the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark IV|Mark IV MJOLNIR armor]], which was replaced by the [[MJOLNIR Powered Assault Armor/Mark V|Mark V]] in November 2551.</ref> During his time on the vessel, he was deployed on a mission to assassinate a [[Unidentified Prophet (Heian)|Prophet]] on the Covenant-controlled world [[Heian]], where alien ruins had been uncovered. During the mission, he worked alongside [[Cal-141]], a [[SPARTAN-II Program|SPARTAN-II supersoldier]], much to the chagrin of [[O'Brien (Heian)|O'Brien]], the squad's backup sniper. During the mission, Miles continuously teased O'Brien about the fact that the sniper owed Cal his life twice and that he should thank the Spartan.

===Battle of Ariel===

[[File:Dutch with Uzi.jpg|thumb|Miles kicking in a door on Ariel.]]

{{Main|Battle of Ariel}}

During the [[Battle of Ariel]] in [[2552#January|January 2552]], Miles served in the same unit with [[Kojo Agu|Romeo]] under the command of [[Master Sergeant|MSgt]] [[Frost]]. Before deployment, they were stationed aboard a [[UNSC frigate]]. Miles broke up a fight Romeo had started, and because of this, Sgt. Frost confined both of them to their quarters. While in his quarters, Miles viewed a video message from Gretchen, who was still healing from her injury.

After this, the ODSTs were deployed to the UNSC colony world of [[Ariel]], where all the colonists seemed to have mysteriously disappeared.<ref name="helljumper"/> After the ODSTs split into two-man teams, Miles and Romeo entered a structure, where they encountered a heavy [[Covenant Empire|Covenant]] presence. After a brief engagement with two [[Sangheili]], the colony's generators went critical, forcing Miles and Romeo to grab the corpses and use them as personal shields against the blast. Miles then decided to tell Romeo his "last words": he was going to get a transfer.

After using improvised explosives to bring a canyon's walls down on a large number of Covenant and then evading the survivors, they formulated a plan to steal a Covenant [[Type-52 Troop Carrier|Phantom]]. First, they killed a Sangheili and an Unggoy, using the latter's body to fool the other Unggoy into thinking that Miles was being taken captive, before killing them all. They then took control of the Phantom, though what Miles believed to be lift-off thrusters were actually weapons, which killed a number of Covenant returning to the ship. As they took off, one Sangheili managed to damage the Phantom with his [[Fuel Rod Gun]], causing the Phantom to crash to the ground. They abandon ship, as the Phantom crashed into a company of Sangheili. Miles crashed through a building's skylight, and found the missing colonists inside, held prisoner by several Unggoy.

[[File:DutchRomeo evade.png|thumb|Miles and Romeo make their way over the laser traps in the Forerunner complex.]]

After neutralizing the guards, Miles and Romeo then learned from the colonists that the Covenant were forcing them to dig down below, setting off a number of booby traps in the entrance to [[Ariel Forerunner complex|an alien complex]]. Thus the two ODSTs went down below to free the other enslaved colonists. They first scared two Unggoy with inactive bombs, causing them run right into a laser trap, before Miles tackled the Sangheili into them as well. He and Romeo then made their way past the lasers, before finding what the Covenant was looking for on Ariel: an [[Forerunner|alien]] [[Artificial Intelligence|construct]] called [[the Knowing]]. Though Miles believed that the AI would be beneficial to the UNSC, per ONI [[Xeno orders|standing orders]], Romeo preferred that they destroy it to prevent the Covenant from getting their hands on the data. Romeo asked Knowing to activate its self-destruct and direct them out of the complex. As they made their way out, Romeo tripped over a Unggoy's body and broke his ankle. Miles carried him and managed to escape the blast. When they got back to the surface, they were reunited with their squad, who had seen the Covenant fleeing the planet because of Knowing's destruction.

Later, Miles visited Romeo while he was on the the infirmary bed. Romeo stated that he filed in a transfer to be with Miles; he told his friend that he withdrew his. They both tried Rock, Paper, Scissors to decide who would go.

After the Battle of Ariel, Miles volunteered in time to participate [[Battle of Tribute]], where he witnessed the destruction of the majority of UNSC naval forces present. This gave him a deep respect for Naval personnel.<ref>'''[[Halo 3: ODST]]''', ''Firefight character description''</ref> He also participated in the [[Battle of Reach]].<ref name="video"/>

===Battle of Earth===

{{Main|Battle of Earth}}

During the [[Battle of Earth]] in [[2552#October|October 20, 2552]], Miles was stationed aboard the {{UNSCShip|Say My Name}} as a part of the squad led by [[Gunnery Sergeant]] [[Edward Buck]], which was part of a larger detachment of the [[105th Shock Troops Division]] that was to be dropped from orbit right onto the ''[[Solemn Penance]]'' stationed over the city of [[New Mombasa]].<ref>[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/intel/related/video/into-hell-1/6c327f74-5bc0-43c4-ac92-0feef4a712b0 '''Halo Waypoint''': ''Into Hell 1'']</ref>  Coincidentally, the squad was chosen by the [[Office of Naval Intelligence|ONI]] operative [[Veronica Dare]] to partake on a classified mission, which was not revealed to the squad members until in mid-drop, when Dare ordered the squad to adjust their [[Single Occupant Exoatmospheric Insertion Vehicle|drop pods]]' trajectories away from the [[Assault Carrier|Carrier]]. However, Miles could barely hear her new orders, and didn't adjust his pod soon enough.<ref>'''Halo 3: ODST''', campaign level, ''[[Prepare To Drop (level)|Prepare To Drop]]''</ref>

Miles and his allies made his way to the second platoon's location, fighting through more Covenant armor. On the way to second platoon's location he learned that the mission objectives were to seize Regret's Carrier's LZ, and secure a [[Vergil|Tier One asset]]. When he finally arrived at second platoon's location they were under heavy fire from additional Covenant armor. Once the Covenant were defeated, the moved across a bridge to find the Colonel near the Covenant LZ, only to watch as the [[Mombasa Tether|space elevator]] collapsed. The Colonel, mortally wounded, ordered the rest of the Marines to move out before more debris came down. Miles and the Marines on the bridge decided to make their way up the hill and out of the park. On their way up they faced off against much more heavy Covenant resistance. Eventually they made it to the Assault Carrier's old LZ where a group of Marines were pinned down by more Covenant armor. After making it to the top of the hill and defeating the last of the Covenant armor, and a Jiralhanae war chieftain, Miles found a hole in the wall made by debris, driving his vehicle off the edge and back into the city.

Later that day, he defended an entrance to the Marine rally point, with a pair of Gauss turrets fighting off Covenant armor. He ordered one of the Marines to hold his fire, and than focus his fire on the Wraith that just arrived, but was angered when the Marine panicked, and opened fire randomly on Covenant troops. At this point he made contact with [[Michael Crespo|Mickey]], who was making his way to the rally point in a [[M808B Main Battle Tank|tank]]. After the armor was defeated, he and Mickey made their way to the rally point to defend it from Covenant troops. After defeating waves of Covenant troops, he asked if Mickey had made contact with the rest of the squad, which Mickey was unable to. Mickey had suggested to stay at the rally point and wait for back up, at this point an [[NMPD]] officer showed up and asked them for assistance in the defense of the [[ONI Alpha Site]], to which Miles overruled Mickey and ordered him to go and assist the situation.

Later, Miles and Mickey defended the ONI Alpha Site. Miles personally armed three of the charges to destroy the only bridge to the Alpha Site. After the [[Superintendent]] finally gave them access, Miles detonated the charges and temporarily halted the Covenant advance. Mickey than noticed the Covenant were landing beyond the wall, and they moved to defend the building from more Covenant troops, after defending the courtyard for a while, they were overwhelmed and forced to retreat inside. Here they found a group of police officers planting charges to destroy the building, which Miles questioned as of why they were doing so. The officer in charge said he had orders to prevent the Covenant from accessing ONI's and the Superintendent's data, which meant blowing up the building if necessary. Eventually they were overwhelmed again and forced to retreat up an elevator, where they were attacked by [[Yanme'e]], and had to fight them off as well. Finally they made it up to the roof, after fighting off another group of Covenant they evacuated on NMPD Police Pelican, and finally made contact with Buck who was with Romeo at the [[NMPD Headquarters]], Miles and Mickey decided to go and pick them up. Once at a safe distance Mickey detonated the charges destroying the building.

Later, the [[D77C-NMPD Pelican Dropship|Pelican dropship]], prepared to pick up Romeo and Buck from a landing pad in the NMPD Headquarters building. However, two [[Type-26 Ground Support Aircraft|Banshees]] appeared and shot the Pelican down, leaving Miles and Mickey to crash land onto an adjacent building. Miles, Mickey and another NMPD officer survived the crash and defended the area, waiting for Buck and Romeo to arrive. After the other two arrived at the crash site, they defended the crash site from multiple waves of Covenant infantry and Banshees. Eventually a [[Jiralhanae Chieftain|Chieftain]] was dropped into the middle of the squad, attacking Romeo. Miles helped Mickey and Buck take down the Chieftain with a well placed melee before it could finish off Romeo, who was badly injured.

They made their way to [[Kikowani Station]] intending to take the train out of the city, only to find the tunnels flooded. Buck decided to steal a Phantom, he had Miles wait there with Romeo as they attempted to secure it. Once Mickey took control, he picked up Miles and Romeo, Miles manned one of the Phantom's plasma turrets. During their fight through the station they encountered a Scarab. The squad finally makes it out of the station, but Buck realizes where [[Captain (Navy)|Capt.]] Dare might be, he had the squad go back into the city, where Miles, along with Mickey and Romeo waited with the Phantom at a safe location, to pick up Buck at a later time.

When Miles and the squad arrived at Buck's location later that day, it was under fire from two [[Wraith]]s on the highway, which Miles, Mickey and Romeo took out with the Phantom. Miles along with the rest of the squad finally evacuated the city as the Covenant fleet began to glass it. Miles was last seen a month later on an [[ONI orbital facility]], with the rest of the squad guarding the [[Huragok]] holding the data of the [[Vergil]] subroutine of the Superintendent. He then watched as [[Avery Junior Johnson|Sgt. Johnson]] interrogated the Huragok, about what the Covenant had uncovered in New Mombasa.<ref>'''Halo 3: ODST''', campaign level, ''[[Coastal Highway]]''</ref>

{{Quote|Behind the death's head rictus, jolly roger, and layer upon layer of black and gray armor is a man of deep spiritual convictions and respect for those he serves alongside.|Description<ref name="fieldguide"/>}}

Miles is the second oldest member of Buck's squad and is good friends with the squad's marksman, [[Kojo Agu]].<ref name="helljumper">'''[[Halo: Helljumper]]''' - ''[[Halo: Helljumper Issue 1|Issue One]]''</ref> He has extensive experience in close-quarters combat.<ref name="oni">[[ONI Candidate Assessment Program V5.02A]]</ref> Miles' last known place of residence is [[Paris Island]] on Mars, where he is also a citizen. His civilian occupation is listed as road train driver.<ref name="fieldguide"/>

Though Miles takes his occupation and duty very seriously, he is characterized by boisterous remarks and quips during combat. Miles is [[Religion|religious]], a world view he adopted during his studies in university,<ref name="video">[http://halo.xbox.com/en-us/Universe/Detail/heavy-weapons-specialist-dutch/5aaa10a7-9a34-44bc-884b-2d9443561b68 '''Halo Waypoint''' - ''Heavy Weapons Specialist Dutch'']</ref> though he does not appear to take his faith with particular seriousness; he is known to occasionally "paraphrase" the Bible in a lighthearted manner.<ref>'''Halo 3: ODST''', campaign level ''Kikowani Station'' (''"As the Good Book says, 'Payback's a bitch!'"'' -''"I don't think it actually says that, Dutch."'' -''"I'm paraphrasing, ya heathen!"'')</ref>

In accordance with his specialty, Dutch's BDU is optimized for close-quarters combat. He wears a specialized ODST-HS Combat Helmet, which is equipped with extra metallic reinforcement to protect from head trauma.<ref name="visual"/> Miles has the upper half of a jaw bone painted onto his helmet right below his visor, and a Jolly Roger on his chest plate, making him the only member of the squad with an emblem on his chest plate. He carries an M/LBE Hard Case backpack.<ref name="visual"/>

*In ''Halo 3: ODST'', Miles was voiced by [[Adam Baldwin]], who also voiced a UNSC Marine in ''[[Halo 3]]''. Baldwin is best known for his role as [[w:c:firefly:Jayne Cobb|Jayne Cobb]] on the television program ''Firefly'', alongside [[Nathan Fillion]] and [[Alan Tudyk]]. This is alluded to in several lines of dialog, most notably through references to [[w:c:firefly:Vera|"Vera"]], Cobb's favorite weapon, as well as use of the expletive ''"Gorram!"''

**On occasion he may also say, ''"Haven't you ever seen ''[[wikipedia:Full Metal Jacket|Full Metal Jacket]]''?"'', in reference to Adam Baldwin's role in that film.

*In ''The Babysitter'', he was voiced by [[Wikipedia:Rob Mungle|Rob Mungle]].<ref>'''Halo Legends''', ''credits''</ref>

*Dutch is unlocked for [[Firefight]] by obtaining the [[Uplift Reserve (Achievement)|Uplift Reserve Achievement]].

*Dutch was likely inspired by the [[wikipedia:List_of_characters_in_the_Predator_series#Dutch|character of the same name]] in the 1987 movie, ''[[wikipedia:Predator (film)|Predator]]'', which influenced ''Halo'' in many ways. His name may also be a reference to [[w:c:starshiptroopers:Dutch|Private Dutch Bamburger]], a Mobile Infantryman from the novel ''[[wikipedia:Starship Troopers|Starship Troopers]]''; the Mobile Infantry were a primary source of inspiration for the ODSTs.

*One of the trucks Miles drove while on Mars was called the [[Flying Dutchman]], possibly inspiring him to take the nickname "Dutch".

*When the player switches to a Spartan Laser as Dutch, he will sometimes say ''"Don't nobody cross my stream!"'' This is a reference to ''[[wikipedia:Ghostbusters|Ghostbusters]]'', in which it is highly dangerous to cross the proton streams.

*When "12121", the last five numbers of Miles' service number, are added together, one ends up with 7, which is another "7" reference.

File:V502A - Miles.png|Dutch as he appeared in [[ONI Candidate Assessment Program V5.02A]].

File:Babysitter_Dutch.jpg|Dutch as he appears in the [[Halo Legends]] episode, ''[[The Babysitter]]''.

File:CheckDutch.jpg|Dutch and [[Checkman]] when off-duty.

File:Cortez squad.jpg|From left, Dutch, O'Brien and Checkman getting debriefed by their commanding officer, [[Cortez]]

File:DutchRomeo observing.png|Dutch and Romeo observe Covenant forces in a canyon on Ariel.

File:Dutch_surprise.png|Dutch surprises a Sangheili guarding a Phantom.

File:DutchRomeo_escape.png|Romeo and Dutch emerge from the ruins of the underground complex on Ariel.

*''[[ONI Candidate Assessment Program V5.02A]]''

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