Missing in action
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Missing In Action, better known as MIA, is a casualty classification used by the United Nations Space Command that refers to a member of the UNSC who has been reported missing following a combat mission and whose status as to injury, capture or death is unknown. The missing combatant must not have been otherwise accounted for as either killed in action or a prisoner of war.
When SPARTAN-IIs are killed, they are reported Missing in Action or Wounded in Action to create the illusion that Spartans never die. This apparently helped boost morale for the UNSC.[1]
List
The following is a list of people who are Missing in Action
- SPARTAN-006: Jai - Missing In Action with the rest of Gray Team.
- SPARTAN-008: Li - Listed as MIA during Slipspace anomaly battle. Assumed KIA due to nearby plasma torpedo detonation.
- SPARTAN-023: Daisy - Listed as MIA, confirmed KIA.
- SPARTAN-029: Joshua - Listed as MIA, though assumed KIA during the Fall of Reach due to a direct hit from a Covenant cruiser's plasma weaponry.
- SPARTAN-030: Vinh - Listed as MIA, though assumed KIA after the Fall of Reach.
- SPARTAN-034: Samuel - Listed as MIA, though confirmed KIA due to a breach in his MJOLNIR armor. First to destroy a Covenant ship in a non-ship to ship battle.
- SPARTAN-039: Isaac - Listed as MIA, though assumed KIA after the Fall of Reach.
- SPARTAN-042: Douglas - Last seen aboard Spirit of Fire in 2531. Listed as MIA.
- SPARTAN-043: William - Listed as MIA, though confirmed KIA by Hunter pair during the Battle of Onyx
- SPARTAN-044: Anton - MIA during Slipspace anomaly battle, though assumed KIA due to nearby plasma torpedo detonation.
- SPARTAN-047: Keiichi - Presumably listed as MIA at Reach. Last seen during the Harvest Campaign.[2]
- SPARTAN-051: Kurt - Listed as MIA, though confirmed KIA after the detonation of two FENRIS nuclear warheads at the core of Onyx.
- SPARTAN-052: Jorge - Status unknown. Last seen during the Fall of Reach.
- SPARTAN-058: Linda - Active in Onyx Shield World. Clinically KIA during the Fall of Reach but later resuscitated after the Battle of Installation 04. Listed as MIA by the UNSC.
- SPARTAN-059: Malcolm - Listed as MIA, though confirmed KIA during Fall of Reach.
- SPARTAN-062: Maria - Retired.
- SPARTAN-069: Solomon - Listed as MIA. Confirmed KIA by Covenant bomb decoy during SPARTAN mission to rescue Dr. Catherine Halsey.
- SPARTAN-079: Arthur - Listed as MIA. Confirmed KIA by Seraph fighters during SPARTAN mission to rescue Dr. Catherine Halsey.
- SPARTAN-087: Kelly - Active in Onyx Shield World. Listed as MIA by the UNSC.
- SPARTAN-092: Jerome - Last seen aboard Spirit of Fire in 2531. Listed as MIA.
- SPARTAN-093: Grace - Listed as MIA. Confirmed KIA during Operation: First Strike on Unyielding Hierophant.
- SPARTAN-101: Victor - Active as of September 2552.
- SPARTAN-104: Frederic - Active in Onyx Shield World. Listed as MIA by the UNSC.
- SPARTAN-111: Adriana - MIA with the rest of Gray Team.
- SPARTAN-117: John - MIA, though presumed KIA by the UNSC. Last seen drifting toward an unknown planet.
- SPARTAN-122: Joseph - Status unknown, last seen in 2525.
- SPARTAN-130: Alice - Last seen aboard Spirit of Fire in 2531. Listed as MIA.
- SPARTAN-141: Cal - Listed as MIA, though confirmed KIA during an assassination operation.
- James - MIA. Most likely KIA during the Fall of Reach.
- Mike - MIA with the rest of Gray Team.
- Randall - MIA.
- Sheila - Listed as MIA, though confirmed KIA during Battle of Miridem.
- "Black-One" - Active as of September 2552.
- "Black-Two" - Active as of September 2552.
- "Black-Three" - Active as of September 2552.
- "Red-Fifteen" - Listed as MIA, presumed KIA due to Plasma bombardment, during the Fall of Reach.
Trivia
- Randall, James, John-117, and Gray Team are the only Spartans who truly became missing.
- John-117 was considered Missing in Action due to the fact that there was no evidence that he died, despite Terrence Hood's quote, "Hard to believe he's dead".[3]
- During the video log in the level 343 Guilty Spark, the automated video recorder regards Wallace A. Jenkins as possibly MIA, due to the termination of his recording as a result of his infection by the Flood.
Sources
- ^ First Strike page 249
- ^ Keiichi's only appearance has been on the Halo Wars interactive website Due to inconsistencies between the website and the game itself (i.e. Spartans in the Harvest Campaign), this particular appearance is of ambiguous canonicity.
- ^ Halo Encyclopedia page 104-105
