Fireteam Wolf (105th Shock Troops Division)

Fireteam Wolf is an elite team of Orbital Drop Shock Troopers of the 105th Shock Troops Division, led by Staff Sergeant Scott Edwards. The team was originally formed during the Human-Covenant War, and in the years that followed, were folded into NAVSPECWAR/Group Seven, under the operational authority of the Office of Naval Intelligence.
==Operational History==
Wolf was but one of many fireteams that comprised the 14th Shock Troops Battalion, affectionally referred to as the "Hellhounds" by some. As part of a conventional shock troops battalion, Wolf participated in some of the bloodiest assaults the Human-Covenant War had to offer, such as the Battle of Skopje, Circumstance, and multiple engagements on Earth.
=== Formation ===
Like any ODST unit throughout the war, Wolf had seen its fair share of troopers cycling in and out as causalities mounted. Staff Sergeant Michael Harris had been the leader of Fireteam Wolf until his death during the defense of Skopje in 2547. At that point, the team consisted of Lance Corporal Jerome Brandt, Petty Officer Third Class Allison Lloyd, and Lance Corporal Davien Calson. Shortly after, in 2548, Staff Sergeant Scott Edwards was assigned as the replacement leader for Wolf. 
However, to the rest of Wolf, Edwards was an outsider. They distrusted the man, with Calson especially eager to undermine Edwards's authority.
===Battle of Bounty===
Later that same year, the 14th Shock Troops would conduct operations on the agricultural world of Bounty. The planet was considered vital, as after the glassing of Harvest and dozens of other worlds responsible for feeding the wider UEG, Bounty emerged as the front-runner in agricultural export.
However, when the UNSC banned all non-military interstellar travel in the 2530's, the military had taken control of the exportation of Bounty's goods, as well as all of its imports. Bounty's niche was originally geared more towards luxury products, such as tobacco or wine. But the governor of the colony agreed to shift its machines of production and fertile fields towards crops that the UEG had a more pressing need of, such as corn, barley and oats. 
This introduced a divide among the populace that eventually exploded into half a dozen violent uprisings, as the owners of tobacco farms and vineyards were made to give up their land and livelihood as part of the governor's deal with the UNSC. Though it is theorized that such riots were spurred by corporate heads, who were making substantially least in the arrangement, as well as criminal elements that previously enjoyed almost no restriction when it came to moving Bounty's more questionable exports.
Wolf, and the rest of the 14th, were originally sent to capture said criminal elements in an attempt to quell the latest uprising, but the untimely arrival of the Covenant placed that operation on hold. 
Despite their best efforts, the planet fell, and the UNSC was forced to flee the system. However, Edwards's efforts bore some fruit at least, as it was thanks to his quick-thinking and resolve that Wolf was able to escape with their lives. From that day on, Wolf accepted Edwards as one of their own.
===Battle of Circumstance===
While Reach was attacked by Covenant forces, the rest of the colonies in the Epsilon Eridani system were also under siege. One such colony was Circumstance, a world renowned for its prestigious private schools and military academies. If Reach was considered the beating heart of the UNSC, than Circumstance, it was said, was its future, raising and polishing the next generation of military minds. Because of this, the evacuation and survival of Circumstance's students was considered a high priority. Likely because there were many high-ranking officers in the UNSC and officials in the UEG who had children or grandchildren attending school on Circumstance.
As part of this effort to evacuate the planet, Wolf and their battalion of ODSTs were deployed to disable the Covenant anti-air emplacements they had arranged around one of Circumstance's largest cities, and personally escort the thousands of students attending Sherman Academy to a location were dozens of dropships were set to evacuate them to the carrier, UNSC Two Steps Forward, waiting in orbit.
However, the carrier was gutted from nose to stern as the UNSC faced greater and greater losses in Epsilon Eridani, and half of the battalion that had dropped with Wolf had perished as the Covenant began to glass the city. 
Although a far cry from the thousands originally from Sherman Academy, Wolf did manage to get a few dozen of young men and women off-world, and aboard the UNSC Aeolus, a Charon-class frigate that had originally been part of the battlegroup assigned to the Two Steps Forward. The frigate fled Epsilon Eridani shortly after, intent on returning to Sol. 
===Defense of Earth And the End Of the War===
With barely enough time to catch their breath after Epsilon Eridani, the UNSC was again assailed by the Covenant at humanity's very homeworld. Over the next few months, Wolf partook in several engagements with the Covenant from one end of Earth to another until the war ended in 2553.
Most of Wolf heavily considered retiring following the end of the war that defined their lives. However, after years of fighting, and years of human space being ravaged, they found that there was very little left for them in the world outside of the UNSC. For these mangey mutts, the team was the closest thing to family they still had. And they couldn't leave that behind.
===Post-War===
In the years following the end of the Human-Covenant War, while humanity had managed to evade extinction, threats to the safety of their worlds still lingered. Be it in the form of alien warlords rising from the ashes of the Covenant, looking to finish what their predecessors started, or the resurgence of human rebellions, intent on weakening the UEG further to solidify their claim to independence.
In this age of shifting alliances and tense interspecies relations, combatting these threats were no longer always as simple as dropping half a battalion of ODSTs on their heads and letting God sort them out. Instead, a more subtle approach was required.
Fireteam Wolf, alongside several other similarly sized and skilled ODST elements were assigned to the Eclipse-class Prowler, the UNSC Zephyr. The Zephyr's mission was to eliminate or undermine various threats to the still-recovering UEG as discreetly as necessary, to ensure that the UEG retained political deniability. These efforts included, but were not limited to, such actions as assassinating would-be Covenant Remnant leaders before their sect grew out of control, raiding and recovering illegal stockpiles of UNSC or Covenant contraband, and the capture of certain Insurrectionist VIPs.
===Zeta Halo===
By the time the UNSC launched their offensive against Cortana on the Forerunner ring world known as "Zeta Halo", Wolf had since been reassigned from the Zephyr to the Molon Labe, one of several frigates accompanying the Infinity during the battle.
The swiftness and brutality of the Banished ambush, combined with a series of unfortunate cryo pod complications that delayed Wolf's awakening, meant the ODSTs barely had time to make themselves decent before the frigate was crumbling to pieces around them.
With no weapons, and no gear, Wolf was forced to evacuate in their drop pods. Despite his best efforts to keep the drop pods together as they fell, Edwards was forced to order his team to maneuver to evade not only anti-aircraft fire from the Banished, but falling debris from their own ship as well. With every bolt of plasma dodged, or warped plate of Titanium-A evaded, Wolf's pods grew further and further apart, with no time to reorient themselves and regroup before they made landfall.
===Disbandment and New Purpose===
Sometimes following the events of Zeta Halo, and all the tragedies and hardships that transpired, the members of Fireteam Wolf chose to leave active duty. This was in part due to a career-ending injury which saw a certain member unable to continue serving as well as the reveal of an important responsibility that Edwards possessed and had been concealing until then. And thus, by the year 2561, both the callsign and the members of Fireteam Wolf had been officially retired.
While Edwards had stepped away and retired on an outer colony world untouched by the fighting and Cortana's uprising, the rest of Wolf were found themselves, for the first time, uncertain of what to do next. This was when Jessica Hayes, a former Pelican flight officer who had known the group for years both aboard the Molon Labe and during their time on Zeta Halo gave them a proposal: dump every last credit they had, and go all in together on their very own cargo freighter. Being their own bosses, going wherever they pleased-- it would all be another first for Calson, Brandt and Lloyd.
And so they became the proud owners of the Marie Jock, a refurbished old cargo freighter with irregular modifications and weaponry that betrayed its former owner's political leaning as a diehard Insurrectionist. But for them, it was home.
== Current Roster ==
*SSgt Scott Edwards- Fireteam Leader
*Cpl Jerome Brandt - Heavy Weapons Specialist
*LCpl Davien Calson - Designated Marksman
*PO3 Allison Lloyd - Hospital Corpsman
==Former Members==
*SSgt Michael Harris - Declared KIA in 2547
*LCpl Chad Burns - Declared KIA in 2545
*PFC Aron Szurke - Declared KIA in 2545
==Gallery==
File:WolfTeam2.jpeg|Wolf Team during the Battle of Circumstance.
File:WolfTeam3.jpg|Wolf Team struggles to survive.
File:Wolf Team Bio.png|Short profiles of every currently active member of Fireteam Wolf.
File:WeAreODST2.jpg|Fireteam Wolf on the ravaged surface of Paris IV
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