Phoenix Logs/UNSC Units/Major Vaughan
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- 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].
- The Mustang.
- Born to a family of politicians and corporate executives, Vaughan lived a life of
- privilege and luxury in the most prestigious of Earth's arcologies. But when a
- family squabble escalated, a rebellious young Vaughan made the worst and best
- decision of his life by enlisting in the UNSC Marines.
- Rammed through boot camp during the height of the insurrection, Vaughan
- had no time to regret his decision before shipping off to war against terrorists
- and separatist movements in the Outer Colonies. His first duty station as a
- green recruit was the Spirit of Fire, an old ship retasked with transporting
- UNSC military and police forces to colonies it once established. Few appreciated
- the irony more than Vaughan, given the role his own family played in
- exacerbating colonial tensions.
- Years later he found himself on the Spirit of Fire again, this time as a
- commissioned ODST officer on a campaign against the alien Covenant that
- would take him from half-glassed colonies to ancient Forerunner shield worlds,
- and beyond. It's been a long road, but Vaughan takes solace in the fact that
- this is definitely not the course his family had pre—charted for him.
- The Spirit of Fire's unusual situation makes Vaughan one of the highest-ranking
- UNSC officers in the Ark conflict, but he prefers to leave strategy and high—level
- operational planning to the experts. He's a Helljumper, and his place is in a drop
- pod plunging feet-first and on fire into the cauldron of battle. In addition to
- coordinating Boomerang Company's deployments and leading the command
- squad, Vaughan carries the squad's SPNKr rocket launcher, which he
- occasionally uses as a blunt teaching instrument to knock sense into younger
- ODSTs.