Editing UNSC Prowler Corps

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|role= Intelligence, stealth infiltration and exfiltration
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|battles= [[Onyx Conflict]]
|commanders= *[[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Greene]]
*Captain [[Iglesias]]
*[[Commander]] [[Dmitri Zheng]]
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The '''Prowler Corps''' is a division of the [[United Nations Space Command]]'s [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 35''</ref> All permanent crew aboard [[Prowler|ONI prowler]]s serve in this sub-branch. The Prowler Corps apparently has an earlier mandatory retirement age than the rest of the Navy branches.<ref>'''Halo: Ghosts of Onyx''', ''page 326'' (''"Cho was technically past the mandatory retirement age in the UNSC Prowler Corps."'')</ref> The human colony of [[Falaknuma]] served as a base for a section of the Prowler Corps, alongside several Navy [[UNSC frigate|frigates]].<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 343''</ref>

==History==
Prior to [[2526]], [[Hector Nyeto]] gained control of [[Ghost Flight]] of at least four {{Class|Razor|prowler|prowlers}}. Because flight commanders approve all crew replacements, he was able to slowly fill his unit with [[Insurrectionist]] crewmen. Such an effort was estimated to have taken years or decades.<ref name="HSSC25">'''Halo: Silent Storm''', ''Chapter 25'', ''page 333''</ref>

At some point, [[Akio Watanabe]] was captured by [[Insurrectionist]]s and was physically tortured. The Prowler Corps rescued him from the insurgents, and thus he became very loyal to them.<ref name="cp96">'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 96''</ref> While recovering from the injuries he obtained, Watanabe began working with the Prowler Corps. He soon discovered that modified [[Covenant]] weaponry was appearing in the hands of civilians and insurgents through the [[human colonies]]. To end the distribution of the weapons, the Prowler Corps worked with another section of ONI to find the origins of the weapons.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 99''</ref>

Several months before the [[Cole Protocol]] was put into effect, the Prowler Corps put together several missions to sneak behind enemy lines and remove any existing human navigation data that could lead to [[Earth]] or other human colonies.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 81''</ref> The Prowler Corps would deploy units to locations where they thought the navigation data could still exist. In [[2535]], [[Spartan-II]] [[Gray Team]] was sent to [[the Rubble]] in the [[23 Librae]] system to ensure no data was still existing.<ref>'''Halo: The Cole Protocol''', ''page 71''</ref>

==Known Prowler Corps personnel==
*[[Major (UNSC)|Major]] [[Akio Watanabe]]

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*[[Commander]] [[Tobias Foucault]] - [[Commanding officer|CO]]

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*[[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Greene]] - CO

===''{{UNSCShip|Ghost Song}}''===
*[[Lieutenant Commander]] [[Hector Nyeto]] - CO, commander of [[Ghost Flight]]. Defected with the remnants of his unit to the [[Gao Republic]].

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*Captain [[Halima Ascot]] - CO, original commander of [[Task Force Yama]]. Killed when her ship was shot down during the [[Battle of Seoba]].

==List of appearances==
*''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'' {{1st}}
*''[[Halo: The Cole Protocol]]''
*''[[Halo: Evolutions - Essential Tales of the Halo Universe]]''
**''[[The Mona Lisa]]''
*''[[Halo: Silent Storm]]''

==Sources==
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[[Category:Office of Naval Intelligence]]