Phoenix Logs/UNSC Units/Corpsman Gruss

lst Squad, lst Platoon, B Company, 9th Shock Troops Battalion.

Major Vaughan's command squad, callsign Sunray 1-1, is the lead element of

Boomerang Company, the UNSC's most elite force of Orbital Drop Shock

Troopers [though that's what they all say].

UNSC Navy Medic.

Petty Officer Gruss is the Navy combat medic assigned to Major Vaughan's

command squad. A woman of [very] few words, the ODSTs make it their mission

to interpret "Doc's" opinion of their shenanigans by analyzing her body language,

sighs, rude gestures, and grunts of disapproval. This friendly harassment ends

when combat begins, for Doc holds the lives of the troopers in her able hands,

wielding biofoam and trauma packs across the squad's position with incredible

skill and delicacy. So perfect is her timing in dealing with injury that it borders

on the prescient, and squad members resign themselves to the inevitable if Doc

appears near them during battle.

In addition to her medical skill, Gruss has shown a remarkable talent for escape

and evasion by avoiding the Marines' many and varied attempts to induct her

into their ranks as an honorary Helljumper. This irks some members of the

battalion, but even ODSTs are not crazy enough to risk the ire of a medic [and

Major Vaughan] by pressing the issue. When deployed with the command

squad Doc patches up the team's injuries with her medkit.