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Following his graduation, the Spartan-IIIs were placed under the authority of the Navy's [[UNSC Special Forces|Naval Special Weapons]] within the [[UNSC Special Forces]]. Jun proved to be one of the Spartan-IIIs' best assets, standing out from his peers within Alpha Company and attracting the attention of Kurt and Mendez. Like a number of other Spartans who showed particular promise, Jun was removed from Alpha Company's mainline deployment roster and his skill as a sniper soon had him leading a [[Headhunters|Headhunter]] team conducting missions directly for the Office of Naval Intelligence. Though he rarely speaks of this period, his performance was exemplary, as Jun was responsible for tracking down and assassinating a number of [[insurrectionist]] leaders who broke the tentative ceasefire between the [[United Nations Space Command]] and insurgent factions after the [[Covenant]] [[First Battle of Harvest|attacked]] the [[Outer Colony]] of [[Harvest]] in [[2525]].<ref name="universe"/> Because of his special assignment, Jun and a handful of other Spartans did not accompany most of Alpha Company to their demise in [[Operation: PROMETHEUS]].<ref>[http://www.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24040 '''Bungie.net''': ''Communique from Kurt to Mendez'']</ref>

Attaining the rank of [[UNSC rank structure|warrant officer]], Jun was reassigned to the Army's [[Special Warfare Group Three]] under the [[Unified Special Warfare Command]] as a member of [[NOBLE Team]], an elite [[fireteam]] of Spartans led by [[Commander]] [[Carter-A259]] and also consisting of Lieutenant Commander [[Kat-B320]] as the team's second in command.<ref name="reports">[http://www.bungie.net/News/content.aspx?cid=24530 '''Bungie.net''': ''NOBLE TEAM PERFORMANCE REPORTS'']</ref> Jun was personally selected as the team's sniper and scout by Carter.<ref name="carter"/> With Jun holding the [[call sign]] of "Noble Three", NOBLE Team served in several engagements under the command of Colonel [[Urban Holland]].<ref name="reports"/> Throughout these engagements, Jun was one of the few members to consistently make it back as part of the team, along with Carter and Kat.<ref name="gi"/> By the final year of the Covenant War, the team consisted of Carter, Kat, Jun, [[UNSC rank structure|Chief Warrant Officer]] [[Jorge-052]], Warrant Officer [[Emile-A239]], and [[Thom-A293]].<ref name="reports"/>

That day, NOBLE Team was sent to investigate a disturbance at the [[Visegrád Relay]] on Reach. During the operation, Jun spotted targets for the team from a [[UH-144 Falcon]], providing intel on enemy and friendly troop deployments. After they were engaged by Covenant forces, Jun, Emile, and Kat flew directly to the relay to get it operational and send a message to Holland, informing him that the Covenant had [[Fall of Reach|discovered]] Reach.<ref name="winter contingency">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[Winter Contingency (level)|Winter Contingency]]''</ref> Two days later, the team was deployed to defend ONI's [[Sword Base]] near the [[Babd Catha Ice Shelf]], which was under attack by Covenant forces. While Kat and SPARTAN-B312 were defending the base's exterior, Jun and the rest of the team made their way to the base's main atrium. After the main threat was neutralized, the team was debriefed by Doctor [[Catherine Halsey]].<ref>'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[ONI: Sword Base]]''</ref>

On [[2552#August|August 12]], Jun and Noble Six, designated [[Recon Team Bravo]], participated in a reconnaissance operation to assess the Covenant force deployments in the [[Viery Territory]] on Reach, with some support from the [[Reach militia|local militia]]. They made their way through several Covenant outposts and discovered a Covenant [[stealth pylon]], to which Jun planted an [[Unidentified UNSC explosive|explosive charge]]. They then proceeded further into Covenant-occupied territory and discovered a massive Covenant ground force deployed by the [[Fleet of Valiant Prudence]] massing on a plain in the valley below. They informed Command and mounted a counter-attack the next morning.<ref name="nightfall">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[Nightfall]]''</ref>

Afterward, NOBLE Team split up, performing different operations to defend the planet. When most of the NOBLE Team members went to [[Farkas Lake]] to initiate [[Operation: UPPER CUT]] to destroy {{Class|CSO|supercarrier}} ''[[Long Night of Solace]]'', Jun, in a Falcon, extracted Carter and Kat from the [[YSS-1000 Sabre]] [[Sabre Program Launch/Research Range|launch facility]] while Jorge and Noble Six participated further in the operation. While the operation proved successful, Jorge died when he sacrificed himself to blow up the supercarrier from within. However, his death proved to be in vain as a much larger [[Covenant fleet]] arrived at Reach directly after.<ref name="lnos">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[Long Night of Solace (level)|Long Night of Solace]]''</ref> Jun participated in the following [[Siege of New Alexandria|Siege]] of [[New Alexandria]] on August 23. He and NOBLE Team later regrouped in the now-compromised [[Olympic Tower]] in the city, where Holland assigned the Spartans were destroying Sword Base which the Covenant now occupied. Just then, the Covenant began [[glassing]] the city dangerously close to NOBLE Team's position. As the Spartans fled, Kat was killed by a [[Sangheili]] marksman. The survivors attempted to kill the Sangheili, to no avail. On August 26, NOBLE Team emerged from a fallout bunker beneath the ruins of the Olympic Tower to be picked up by a Pelican.<ref name="newalex">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[New Alexandria (level)|New Alexandria]]''</ref>

On August 29, the remaining members of NOBLE Team arrived at the Covenant-occupied remnants of Sword Base; they were to demolish the base in order to prevent Halsey's excavation data from falling into Covenant hands. Jun, Emile, and Carter remained in a Falcon while Noble Six and a team of [[Orbital Drop Shock Troopers]] eliminated a pair of [[Type-38 Tyrant]] anti-aircraft emplacements. After the cannons were disabled, NOBLE Team fought their way into the interior of the base. Once they arrived at the designated coordinates, which seemed to be a dead end with no load-bearing structures, [[dumb AI]] [[Auntie Dot]] revealed that the team had been given a new objective. They were to rendezvous with Halsey over a kilometer away and two thousand feet below ground. The team soon arrived at the crash site of a [[Forerunner]] [[Babd Catha Forerunner vessel|vessel]] beneath the ice shelf. Halsey insisted upon the importance of the site and demanded NOBLE Team's support while she completed transferring critical data in her laboratory. Jun and the other Spartans defended Halsey's lab from several waves of Covenant forces, who had found an entrance to the ruins. Eventually, Halsey ushered the Spartans inside, where she revealed the data she had transferred: a fragment of the [[Smart AI|smart]] [[artificial intelligence]] [[Cortana]] that carried a "latchkey" discovery found from within the ruins. She ordered NOBLE Team to escort the package to {{UNSCShip|Pillar of Autumn}}, a {{Class|Halcyon|light cruiser}} that was drydocked at the [[Aszod ship breaking yards|ship-breaking yards]] in [[Aszod]] preparing to depart from the planet.<ref name="pack">'''Halo: Reach''', campaign level, ''[[The Package (level)|The Package]]''</ref>

===A new class of Spartans===

{{Quote|Most of them are alright, Musa. And they'll get better. But some of them… some of them are much better.|Jun, while overseeing the training of the first Spartan-IVs<ref name="hi2">'''Halo: Initiation''', ''[[Halo: Initiation Issue 2|Issue #2]]''</ref>}}

Following the end of the Covenant War, Jun was selected to lead the development of the [[SPARTAN-IV program]], alongside Commander [[Musa-096]]. Technically retiring from active service and becoming a [[civilian]], Jun served as the SPARTAN-IV program's head recruiter.<ref name="universe"/> In [[2553|January 2553]], he met with ODST [[Lance Corporal]] [[Sarah Palmer]] aboard [[Lockhart medical station|''Lockhart'' medical station]] and recruited her into the first class of Spartan-IVs.<ref name="hi1"/> On [[2553#February|February 15, 2553]],<ref>[https://twitter.com/bsangel/status/699269947944382464 '''Twitter''': ''Today in Halo 2/15/2553'']</ref> Jun traveled to the colony of [[Sundown]] in a shuttle to personally offer Edward Buck a place in the first class of Spartan-IVs. Much to Jun's surprise, Buck declined the offer, as he felt that he might have to abandon [[Alpha-Nine|his team]] and his girlfriend, ONI [[Captain]] [[Veronica Dare]]. Buck became the first prospect to decline Jun's offer and the only one to do so within the first class of Spartans.<ref name="nb49">'''Halo: New Blood''', ''pages 49-55'' (Google Play edition)</ref>

==Personality and traits==

{{Quote|I kill the enemy, but do not hate them.|Jun-A266<ref name="firefight">'''Halo: Reach''', ''Armory''</ref>}}

Calm and well-practiced,<ref name="enc115">'''[[Halo Encyclopedia]]''', ''page 115'' (2011)</ref> Jun is regarded as "rock solid under pressure" and not arrogant about his exceptional skills as a sniper.<ref name="profile">[http://www.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24522 '''Bungie.net''': ''Jun-A266 Personnel Profile'']</ref> Though he is confident in his skills as one of the best marksmen within the entire [[United Nations Space Command]],<ref name="vis"/> Jun is reluctant to boast such. Somewhat a loner by nature, Jun competes only with himself and feels as if he has little time for trivial personality conflicts that impede efficiency.<ref name="universe"/> Generally unusual for a [[SPARTAN-III program|Spartan]], Jun is intriguingly conversational<ref name="enc115"/> and rather talkative during missions, sometimes to a degree considered against noise discipline protocols within the UNSC. However, this is often overlooked in the field by his peers, due to the informational bent of his chatter.<ref name="profile"/> Though Jun is quite vocal and unafraid to speak his mind, he is always tightly focused on the mission at hand. Some have mistaken this character trait for a deep philosophy, but in truth, it is more pragmatic than mystical.<ref name="universe"/> Jun is known for remaining unwaveringly composed, even under the highest of pressures.<ref name="gi"/> However, Jun is not one to show mercy to his opponents; Musa-096 believed he would assuredly have killed a former ally who betrayed him and defected from the UNSC.<ref>'''Halo: New Blood''', ''page 179'' (Google Play edition)</ref>

==Skills and abilities==

{{Quote|Jun, Noble Three. As a sniper, his skills are unmatched.|Doctor Catherine Halsey, speaking of Jun's skills during his time on NOBLE Team<ref>'''[[Halo: Reach ViDoc: A Spartan Will Rise]]'''</ref>}}

An expert marksman and a seasoned warrior,<ref name="vis"/> Jun is widely recognized across the [[United Nations Space Command]] as one of the most talented snipers alive. Although he has since retired from active service and rarely has the opportunity to use his skills in the field, Jun remains a deadly combatant who is more than capable of holding his own, even alongside the [[SPARTAN-IV program|Spartan-IVs]]. As a child conscripted into [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]] of the [[SPARTAN-III program]], Jun quickly proved himself to be a skilled marksman and seasoned scout. Following his [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|augmentations]], Jun became one of Alpha Company's greatest assets, as his skill as a sniper led him to carry out [[operation]]s directly under the authority of the [[Office of Naval Intelligence]].<ref name="universe"/> Jun's primary [[Military Occupational Specialty]] is listed as 180B.<ref name="profile"/>

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File:ReachConcept - Jun.png|Early concept of Jun for ''[[Halo: Reach]]''.

File:Jun Initiation.png|Jun as an envoy for the SPARTAN-IV program in ''[[Halo: Initiation]]''.

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