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| {{Quote|We've been very lucky with β so far — very lucky — to get 312 out directly after training. An opportunity like that is not liable to happen ever again.|Lieutenant Commander [[Kurt Ambrose]]<ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24040 '''Bungie.net''': ''Beta Company Assessment'']</ref>}} | | {{Quote|We've been very lucky with β so far — very lucky — to get 312 out directly after training. An opportunity like that is not liable to happen ever again.|Lieutenant Commander [[Kurt Ambrose]]<ref>[http://halo.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24040 '''Bungie.net''': ''Beta Company Assessment'']</ref>}} |
| The boy who would become Spartan-B312 volunteered for the [[Spartan-III program]] after being orphaned due to the [[Human-Covenant War|war]] with the [[Covenant]], becoming one of four hundred and eighteen children making up its [[SPARTAN-III Beta Company|second company]].<ref name="HGOO9">''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', ''Chapter 9''</ref> Only three hundred and seventy-five had been confidently identified for participation by [[2537#July|July 30, 2537]], but the full company was formed by the next day.<ref name="HM76"/><ref name="HGOO8">''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', ''Chapter 8''</ref> Beta Company was trained from that point on by the [[Spartan-II]] Lieutenant [[Kurt Ambrose]] and Chief Petty Officer [[Franklin Mendez]] at the [[Camp Currahee]] complex on the planet [[Onyx]] in the [[Zeta Doradus system]].<ref name="HOSFM84">''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'', ''page 84''</ref> The regimen mirrored that of the [[Spartan-II]]s', with intensive physical conditioning and education conducted by hand-picked trainers and multiple on-site A.I.s. All training and indoctrination emphasized the significance of achieving objectives at any cost and a willingness to sacrifice for the UNSC.<ref name="HOSFM84"/> Beta Company's drill instructors also counted washouts from [[SPARTAN-III Alpha Company|Alpha Company]] among their ranks, who always seemed to go out of their way to make things as hard as possible for the trainees.<ref name="HGOO9"/> On [[2541#August|August 24, 2541]] all four hundred and eighteen recruits were given an exercise near Camp Currahee in which their respective teams were tasked with [[Ring the Bell|ringing a bell]] atop a poll in a field. Impeding their progress were their drill instructors, who were shielded by [[Semi-Powered Infiltration armor#Mark II|Mark II semi-powered infiltration armor]]. [[SPARTAN-III Beta Company|Beta Company]]'s members, conversely, only had sweat suits and light boots for protection against [[stun round]]s. Kurt had previously announced that eventually only three hundred slots would be made available for continuation as a [[Spartan]], and ringing the bell was required in order to advance. The lieutenant had also let it be known that grades would be a factor in the selection process, so the kids were as a whole exhausting themselves each night with studying before falling asleep. The exercise this day began at 1420 hours.<ref name="HGOO9"/> B312 eventually underwent the [[Project CHRYSANTHEMUM|biological augmentation]] processes required of Spartans. Beta Company graduated at some point during the first few months of [[2545]] and by May 30 at least some of its members had been deployed for [[Operation: CARTWHEEL]].<ref name="HOSFM85">''[[Halo: Official Spartan Field Manual]]'', ''page 85''</ref><ref name="Intel">[http://halo.bungie.net/projects/reach/article.aspx?ucc=personnel&cid=24040 '''Bungie.net''' - ''Intel, Personnel'']</ref> Three hundred were deployed to the [[51 Pegasi system]] on July 3 of that year for [[Operation: TORPEDO]] following a number of other missions the company had completed, but B312 was not among these, having been detached from the rest of his comrades for special assignment.<ref name="HM76">''[[Halo Mythos]]'', ''page 76''</ref><ref name="HGOOP">''[[Halo: Ghosts of Onyx]]'', ''Prologue''</ref> Soon after this separation he was given [[Mjolnir]] armor.<ref name="HM76"/> Because of the concealed nature of his survival, B312's existence became classified and the Spartan was deployed as a black operator and assassin under the Office of Naval Intelligence.
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| | B312 was one of the 418 candidates claimed in [[2537]] by ONI's [[Beta-5 Division]] for training in Beta Company of the SPARTAN-III program. Like the others, 312 was a child orphaned by the [[Covenant]] and subsequently recruited with the promise of revenge. During their training, B312 and a few other Spartan-IIIs (designated "cat 2") outshone their teammates well enough that these select few were handpicked by Lieutenant Commander [[Kurt Ambrose]] to be assigned to separate special force units outside the general population of Beta Company. Thus, these Spartans did not participate in [[Operation: TORPEDO]], the suicide mission that resulted in the deaths of almost all of Beta Company. Because of the concealed nature of his survival, B312's existence became classified and the Spartan was deployed as a black operator and assassin under the Office of Naval Intelligence. |
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