Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science

Avery J. Johnson Academy of Military Science (abbreviated AJAMS, pronounced "A-Jams") required me to include this note stating he was the genius that invented "A-Jams". There, done. was a hidden colonial installation responsible for the continued training and education of after the destruction of key during the . Protected from Created knowledge by reinstated safeguards and data sanitization suicide missions to former ONI data-vaults, reestablished itself on the run at AJJ serving as a rally-and-waypoint for other UNSC forces in a more guerilla form of constrained warfare.
New Spartan-IVs are selected from survivors who arrive at the safehaven where they prepare to return their fight to a more unwelcoming galaxy. The academy culture pulls from the history of contemporary Spartan history, named posthumously after war veteran while referencing prior Spartan generations in their iconography and education allowing recruits to learn from their tragic predecessors and wear the Spartan title with uncompromising dedication to their mission and humanity. However, the mostly-tranquil world is isolated and detached from the galaxy and leaves many veterans wanting to return to the unconquered battlefields beyond.
Some might say, "Anticipation breeds recklessness."
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==History==
===Betrayer Leonidas===
On October 28, , declared her over the former offering an ultimatum to the civilizations to accept her rule or be beaten into submission by her and forces. Many sentient, joined Cortana's call to arms including , the director of Spartan training facility . In secret, Leonidas isolated Laconia Station's communication systems from the rest of human space on the premise of securing the station against Created attacks with permission from Spartan branch Chief of Staff before trapping the former Spartan in his quarters in a comatose state. The dangerous peace did not last long with the arrival of Spartan strike team requesting access to the station as part of a mission to contact the for a potential alliance.
Upon discovering Spartan use of a to hack into Laconia Station and his attempts to contact Jun, Leonidas declared a station-wide on Buck leading the station Spartan-IVs to briefly turn on their fellow Spartan. Leonidas suffocated three Spartan-IVs when Buck started to convince them of Leonidas's betrayal and threatened to vent the entire station if Buck did not stand down. However, Vergil locked Leonidas out of the system long enough for Buck to separate the AI housing chip from Laconia's control system. With Leonidas isolated, Jun regained conscience while Buck recovered the rogue Spartan-IV and Alpha-Nine member from detention. Despite his isolation and later destruction by Buck, Leonidas was still able to send out a warning message to the Created even as Jun and his Spartans prepared to fight.
Despite Leonidas's destruction, the prepared contingencies with personality fragments embedded in the armor of station Spartan-IVs including and . Leonidas was able to later interrupt Alpha-Nine's mission leading to only a partial success as the Created seized the URF hideout on . Cortana eventually ordered Leonidas's fragments to activate their failsafe and self-destruct Leonidas Station, killing all personnel aboard including over fifty Spartan-IVs. The destruction of Laconia Station became a warning to other Spartan-IV training facilities like sister stations Naxos and Virgo to evacuate and go into hiding.
===Regroup and Construction===
With their access to industrial centers and resources cutoff by the Created, the remaining Spartan branch leadership in coordination with the ordered the establishment of a new off-the-books facility to continue Spartan training and deployments during the new Created conflict. At the recommendation of the , new facilities like the Avery Johnson Academy also reinstated Cole Protocol safeguards from the to decrease chances of UNSC starships being tracked back to their hideaways. However, the ONI remnants also raised concerns that Created forces could use interstellar map databases on captured human colonies to pinpoint the hideouts leading to a need for data sanitization missions of colonial databases deep into what was now-enemy territory. ONI reconfigured and tasked their surviving hunter-killer and disruption teams from the to head these counter-operations due to the Spartans and former in their ranks specializing in counterinsurgency and covert action against the former .
Many Spartans and special forces deployed on these suicide missions did not survive or did not make it back to safe harbors. Those who survived, still trapped behind enemy lines, continued their fight by ranging from their local environments for resources and support. Few of these guerilla fighters survived but their sacrifices bought time for the UNSC remnants to regroup and rebuild their new hideaways including Avery Johnson Military Academy. While little is known about the Avery Johnson facility after Naval Intelligence successfully scrubbed much of its pre-existing information and location data, it is common belief that the training school is a former "quick-reaction" complex which fell into disrepair during the late and at the turn of the twenty-sixth century.
Regardless of prior-first contact history, institutional knowledge from former ONI personnel such as the Spartan-IV "" operator confirmed the facility was built at the start of the Human-Covenant War for a similar, quick-reaction purpose in detecting and responding to Covenant force presence in the . When the wartime facility came online, a theory hypothesized willingly bypassed garden worlds if there was a negligible human presence, as if Covenant fleet movements zoned in on rather than detecting planets for life signs. At some point, Spartans deployed from the ONI facility but fell into disuse before the end of the Covenant War and was later revitalized once more as part of the . The Academy was then built over the old ONI "black site" in the lead up to the Created uprising, though not in preparation as the lacked any forewarning to Cortana's machinations.
===Season 1: New Generation (Heroes of Reach)===
Once Naval Intelligence determined the safety and secrecy of the Avery Johnson Military Academy was moderately secure, jurisdiction and management was transferred fully to the Spartan branch's . Continuing from prior Spartan training facilities but under accelerated conditions to replenish service ranks, staff instituted curriculum from the Spartan Training and Qualification Program.
===Season 2: Iratus (Lone Wolves)===
===Season 3: Cyberattack (Echoes Within)===
===Season 4: Zombies (Infection)===
===Season 5: Invasion (Reckoning)===
==Notable Residents==
===Commander Agryna===
Spartan Commander became the acting-commandant of Avery Johnson Academy of Military Science following the abandonment and destruction of Spartan training stations in human space. A civilian in London during the Covenant invasion of Earth in 2552, a Spartan team saved her from Jiralhanae patrols and inspired her to join their ranks. She graduated with the second class candidates for the Spartan-IV program in 2553, but did not participate in higher profile missions like those witnessed by Spartan Commander Sarah Palmer or former commander, Spartan Edward Buck. Much of Agryna's service history is classified similar to other Spartans, however, her cybernetic leg from the knee-down suggests she's seen her fair share of combat.
As commander of Spartan forces and training at Avery Johnson Military Academy, she brings a positive if -- she picks on Spartans who use cadet colors so change that quick.
===The Commander's Best===
Fireteam Utah/Velociraptor... (Agryna's Favorite? Commander's Best? -- Mission Impossible reference)
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*Unknown (Heavy Weapons Specialist)
*Nicoline Folasade 
*Biff (Cyberwar)
===Canon===
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*M. Brinkley - Staff, Range Master
*H. Roberts - Staff, UNSC Cybersecurity & Network Infrastructure
*S. Melvoin - Staff
===Fanon===
*Personal AI (AJAMS)
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