Spartan CJ A294

CJ A-294 was a Spartan III commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command, attached to Special Warfare Group Three. Initially Apart of Alpha Company until 2537 when he was conscripted into the Headhunter program where he was paired with his cousin Spartan AJ-A312. In 2540 he and Spartan A312 where both redeployed to the new Spartan III Omega company where they each took on the command role for these new and inexperienced Spartans. CJ operated as a team leader and the company's second in command. CJ operated with Omega company until 2552 when ONI disbanded the unit and formed the surviving Spartans into small strike teams. He remained serving with Spartan A312 until the end of the war. After the Human covenant war, Spartan A294 was asked to join the Spartan IV program which he gratefully accepted.
==Biography==
===Childhood===
CJ was born on the planet Harvest on July 31st 2524. A year later when the planet came under attack by the Covenant, he and his parents evacuated the planet with his cousin AJ and his aunt. The group made it to an evacuation ship which took them off world and to the inner colonies. During their travels, a ship board riot occurred, during the riot CJ lost both his parents and his aunt. Left alone CJ and AJ were put into foster care. Years later, CJ was picked alongside his cousin by ONI for the Spartan III program.
===Spartan III Program===
In 2531 CJ was brought to Camp Curahee alongside his cousin AJ, to begin training with the 497 other children. CJ trained and fought alongside the rest of the children who would become the Spartans of Alpha company until 2537. Having fought in a half dozen engagements with Alpha Company and showing promising skills in survival and combat, CJ was selected for ONI's new Headhunter program and spared from the disastrous Operation: PROMETHEUS.
=== Headhunters ===
CJ was reassigned to his new headhunter unit with his cousin Spartan A312. The Spartans were given the prototype Aegis Class of SPI armor to field test for ONI. For years he participated in advanced recon, sabotage, assassination and general disruption of troops and Covenant supply chains. Commonly deployed around combat theatres in UNSC space, the missions were more often then not directed to weaken the strength of the Covenant Invasion forces directly assaulting a planet
In 2539 the CJ and AJ were recruited by ONI to investigate and explore a planet beyond human controlled space. The planet was called Chu'ot. After several months in system doing reconnaissance, they learned that one of Chu'ot's moons is called Eayn and happens to be the home world of the Kig Yar. The Spartans returned to UNSC space and were debriefed by ONI. The data the Spartans uncovered would ultimately lead to Operation: SOMME in 2552. 
In 2540 the pair were once more reassigned, this time to Reach to lead the new Spartan III Omega Company on their first combat operation against the Covenant.
==Spartan Omega Company==
In July of 2541 Spartan A294 arrived at the garrison of Omega Company with Spartan A312. CJ and his cousin were both met with uncertainty as the new Spartans looked at them as outsiders. This behavior quickly changed when they learned they were going to be fighting the Covenant for the first time, and they were the only ones in the company who has. On his arrival to his new unit, CJ had learned that the members of Omega Company were also outfitted with the new Prototype MKII Class of SPI armor.
===Battle of Cyrus===
On 10/23/2542 the Spartans of Omega Company. descended on the planet to assault a Covenant resource mining operation. It would be the first live operation that Spartan A294 would lead, and the Spartan's first taste of combat against the Covenant. Leading the Spartans of Yellow team to their objectives and through the short but fierce battle. The mission was a success with the Covenant mining operation destroyed. This assault was the first stage in an effort to break the Covenant assault on the human colony of Terra Nova.
=== Battle of Terra Nova ===
The Spartans of Omega Company. arrived in orbit of Terra Nova on 10/25/2542. The Spartans were deployed to the surface to help battle the Covenant in the main cities of Cain and Azerbade. During the fifteen days of fighting, UNSC NAVCOM had learned that at least one of the Covenant ships involved in the attack on the planet. A CRS Class Light Cruiser had been produced just days before the attack on the system. Believing they could find the location of the factory that produced the light warship, it was decided the Spartans and a company of ODSTs would board a Covenant CCS-class battlecruiser which they would use to infiltrate the defenses of Unending Glory. With the battle turning towards the Covenant's favor as another fleet arrived in system the Spartans and surviving naval assets were forced to flee the planet, leaving it to be glassed.
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