Talk:Operation: RED FLAG

Marines

Vegerot (talk) 16:46, 6 March 2011 (EST): Don't you think it's odd that it was not mentioned until Halo: The Flood that the UNSC had a whole army of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers also on board, with even a Major on board?

Well, at that point the ODSTs barely existed in the canon. We had a few lines in The Fall of Reach that they were special forces, and John beating three to death, but very little description of what they actually did, and no reason to assume they would be involved with something like RED FLAG. The one thing we knew, that ODSTs didn't like Spartans at all, made this even less likely. The Flood was our real introduction to the cream of the Marine Corps crop. We really have Deitz to thank for fleshing out the ODSTs, from which they have become a staple of the franchise - has there been a Halo game since 1 that hasn't had Helljumpers in some shape or form? No. -- Specops306 ^{Autocrat Qur'a 'Morhek} 23:11, 6 March 2011 (EST)