Editing Wallace Jenkins

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{{Human Character Infobox

|name=Wallace A. Jenkins  

|image=[[Image:Jenkins PoA.png|250px]]

|birth=[[2506]]

|death=[[2552#September 22, 2552|September 22^nd, 2552]]

|rank=[[Private First Class]]

|weapons=*[[MA5B Assault Rifle]]

|vehicles=

|hair= Auburn

|eyes= Brown

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

{{quote|What about my family?!|Jenkins during the [[First Battle of Harvest]].}}

'''Private First Class Wallace A. Jenkins''' was an infantryman in the [[UNSC]] [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marine Corps]]. PFC Jenkins was stationed aboard the {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}} during the [[Battle of Installation 04]] in [[2552#September|September 2552]].

 

 

Wallace Jenkins was born on the Outer Colony world of [[Harvest]], to a farming family. In [[2524]], he joined the [[Colonial Militia of Harvest]] in an effort to make use of himself. His ambition was to join the [[UNSC]] [[Marine Corps]] as an officer. Though [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Johnson|Johnson]] frequently criticized him, he proved to be an extremely quick thinker and a competent Marine. One major event was when he and [[Forsell]] were running a training exercise with all of the other recruits in the Colonial Militia, he and Forsell were able to quickly determine the situation and go around the mock attack staged by Johnson and [[Byrne]]. By doing so they were almost able to win the exercise, though a recruit named [[Osmo]] beat them to it. By proving that they were competent Marines who could think out-of-the-box, they earned the trust of Staff Sergeant Johnson, and developed a close relationship over the First Battle of Harvest.

{{Quote|[[Avery J. Johnson|Staff Sergeant]]...[[Forsell|he]]'s all I've got left.|Jenkins, after the glassing of [[Harvest]]}}

Jenkins was a natural sharpshooter and was assigned one of the [[Prototype BR-55|prototype Battle Rifles]]. During the fight against the [[Covenant]] on Harvest, Jenkins' entire family was killed when [[Gladsheim]] was attacked by the Covenant. He was deeply depressed after losing his family and used his anger to fuel his hatred of the [[Covenant]]. The only person close to him to survive was his fellow sharpshooter and friend [[Forsell]], who had saved his life when Jenkins was blinded by rage and attempted to kill [[Tartarus]]. After escaping from [[Harvest]], [[Staff Sergeant]] [[Avery Johnson|Johnson]] offered Jenkins, Forsell, and the remaining militiamen the chance to become real [[UNSC Marine]]s in his unit.<ref>[[Halo: Contact Harvest]] Epilogue</ref> It remains unknown what Jenkins did when he became a Marine, but by [[2552]] he was stationed on [[Reach Station Gamma]], a space station above [[Reach]].

==The Battle of Reach==

During the war he presumably fought at the [[Siege of Paris IV]]. He was on board [[Reach Station Gamma]] during the [[Battle of Reach]], still fighting alongside [[Sergeant Johnson]]. The other marines with him included [[Private (UNSC)|Privates]] [[Bisenti]] and [[O'Brien (Marine)|O'Brien]]. Their Friend Or Foe (FOF) tags were detected by [[SPARTAN-117]] and [[SPARTAN-058]]. The group was fighting a pack of [[Jackal]] [[Ranger]]s, defeated them with the help of the Spartans, and with the help of SPARTAN-117, they managed to destroy the database of the ''[[Circumference]]'' and escape the station aboard a [[D77-TC|Pelican]].<ref>[[Halo: The Fall of Reach]], Pages 326-327</ref> They then proceeded to board the ''[[UNSC Pillar of Autumn|Pillar of Autumn]]'', and traveled to [[Installation 04]].

 

==The Battle of Installation 04==

Once there, the ''Pillar of Autumn'' is attacked by the [[Covenant]], and Jenkins escaped the ship in the same lifeboat as [[Sergeant Johnson]] and his squad. After meeting up with the [[Master Chief|Chief]] and fighting off Covenant patrols, they took [[D77-TC|Pelican]] [[Echo 419]] to [[Alpha Base]].

[[Image:FloodJenkins.jpg|right|thumb|180px|The [[Flood]] infected Jenkins.]]

Later, Jenkins, along with the rest of [[Fire Team Charlie]] (excluding [[Chips Dubbo]]), were taken on [[D77-TC|Pelican]] [[Victor 933]] to what they believed to be a Covenant weapons cache, but it turned out to be one of the [[Flood Containment Facilities]]. There, he, [[Captain (Navy)|Captain]] [[Jacob Keyes|Keyes]], [[Sergeant Johnson]], [[Private (UNSC)|Privates]] [[Bisenti]], [[Manuel Mendoza|Mendoza]] [[Kappus]], and [[Riley]] encountered the [[Flood]] for the first time on Halo. In the fight, Jenkins panicked and an [[Infection Form]], weakened by a millennia-long hibernation period, latched on to him and took over his body.<ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], Page 175</ref> He dropped his video-recording helmet, which was later found by the [[Master Chief]], who watched the horrifying attack via the [[Recorder Chip]] of Jenkins' [[Helmet Recorder]].<ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], page 206</ref> The video ended suddenly, right as the [[infection form]] hit Jenkins, and infected him.

He and his entire squad, except [[Avery Johnson|Johnson]] and [[Bisenti]], were turned into [[Combat Forms]]. However, in Jenkins' case, his [[Infection Form]] was weakened from the centuries of containment, and could not fully control him. <ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], page 176</ref> He watched in terror as he lost control of his mutated body and the Infection Form moved his body around and assaulted his mind. Thus, he could control himself when the "other" was in pain. When it had total command, he could not do anything except see what he was doing.

===Survival and Death===

Jenkins' combat form followed a group of [[Flood]] to the surface where they attacked a group of [[ODST]]s under command of [[First Lieutenant]], [[Melissa McKay]]. Without complete control over his body, Jenkins, who was desperate to end his own life, attempted to get killed while assaulting the Lieutenant, but instead he was captured by the [[ODSTs]]. [[Major (UNSC)|Major]] [[Antonio Silva]] tried to interrogate him. While being interrogated, the [[infection form]] inside of Jenkins attempted to attack its interrogators by extending a tentacle ''through'' Jenkins' hand, snapping the bones and veins. As Jenkins described it, it was a "living hell". However, the infection form was knocked unconscious by the pain. This gave Jenkins the chance to reveal the imminent threat of the Flood beneath the base.<ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], page 275/276</ref>. Lieutenant McKay correctly interpreted this and ordered a squad to exterminate them. He was later taken to the ''[[Truth and Reconciliation]]'' while the [[UNSC Marine Corps|Marines]] assaulted the ship. Jenkins, knowing that Silva planned to take the ship home to [[Earth]], overwhelmed the Infection form inside him and tried to destroy the ship because he knew that there were more [[Flood]] present aboard it and that they would inevitably escape and destroy [[Earth]]. He failed to do so, but [[Lieutenant McKay]], seeing the truth as well, destroyed the vessel for him. The destruction of the ''Truth and Reconciliation'' mercifully ended his suffering. <ref>[[Halo: The Flood]], page 332</ref> Before he died, he managed to mouth the words "Thank you" to the Lieutenant.

*He was one of the first people to use the [[Prototype BR-55|Prototype Battle Rifle]], which entered service in [[2524]].

*Jenkins is voiced by voice actor [[Chris Wicklund]].

*Jenkins is the only Marine mentioned to be infected by an [[Infection Form]], weakened by the long hibernation the [[Flood]] form had undergone. Because of this, he is able to control his body to a certain limit during times as the Flood Form retracts into a corner of their shared mind.

*Jenkins was 18 in the year 2524, which meant that he was older than [[John-117|the Master Chief]].

*Though he was appointed a ''Sharpshooter'' in his platoon by Johnson in the events of Contact Harvest; in the Flood containment area in [[Halo: Combat Evolved]] he was seen wielding an [[MA5B]] instead of his favorable [[BR55 Battle Rifle]]. This is most likely because the only weapons that survived the Battle of Reach, were "standard Marine weapons" and the Battle Rifle was still not the main weapon used by Marines, so it would have been stored in special lockers, which were all destroyed along with the Spartans' weapons lockers during the Fall of Reach. It was also stated that they were prototypes in [[Contact Harvest]].

*He may have some connection with [[L. Jenkins]].

*An interesting fact is that in this picture he is wearing a Boonie hat, but in both the Graphic Novel and the cutscene where his squad is attacked by the [[Flood]], he is wearing the standard issue helmet that other Marines wear.

*For having such a small appearance in Halo: CE, Jenkins has become a very popular character. This is most likely due to his appearances in ''Halo: The Flood'' and ''Halo: Contact Harvest''.

*Even though Jenkins wears the same helmet as [[Riley]], in the cutscene in [[343 Guilty Spark (Level)|343 Guilty Spark]], he has a standard marine helmet

*It is strange how he was the only Marine in [[Fire Team Charlie]] wearing armor and a helmet, as the others were wearing bandannas, Boonie caps, Sergeant caps, or no headgear, and not even Johnson was wearing armor.

*It seems strange that he was such a low rank for someone being in the [[UNSC]] Corps for so long and especially since he was one of the first people to fight the Covenant and survive the First Battle of Harvest. It is possible he is not the same character in ''[[Halo: Contact Harvest]]'',

*Although his first name was never mentioned in Halo: Contact Harvest, we can safely assume this is the same Jenkins for the simple fact that at the end of the book Seargent Johnson personnaly asked to have Jenkins in his squad so when Johnson's team became [[Fire Team Charlie]] Jenkins was dragged along with it.

*Jenkins dislikes [[Flip music|flip music]].

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