Brian Mack

Brian Jackson Mack (: 98989-55521-BM) was a  in the and served under Alpha-6 during the and Post War Era. He was conscripted into the  in 2558 due to his CO's recommendation and was placed on Shield Team under Kyle-A245's command. 
== Early Years ==
Brian Mack was born onboard the space station, Nova Corps designed to assist humanity's survival if was to ever fall. Brian was raised by his parents, Jackson and Maria Mack and lived with his grandparents, Tyler and Cassandra. Brian was often told stories about his family, mostly his father and older sister who were both s, causing Brian to aspire to become one. 
As Brian got older, he was eventually sent to Dwarf Sigmus-IV for both high school and college if he so chose. While on the planet, Brian learned of Marine recruiting and when he turned 18, Mack immanently enlisted and joined the ODST's like his family before him. 
== Human-Covenant War ==
After Mack graduated from Dwarf Sigmus' marine camp, he was assigned to Alpha-6 and was placed under the command of Donald MacHelm and Elise Thorne. Mack was also paired with Corporal Ryan Travis, Lance Corporal Virginia Rhodes and Private Benson Cougar. 
=== Battle of Octan ===
As the Covenant invaded the colony world Octan, Alpha-6, Mack and the rest of the 233rd ODST Battalion were deployed to the city of Gomez to secure its boarders from incoming Covenant assault. As the team was deployed, a Covenant corvette attacked the frigate the team dropped from. Mack and his squad could only watch as the Covenant killing hundreds more. 
Once on the ground, Alpha-6 and the surviving members of the 233 went to work clearing the local area of Covenant forces. Alpha-6 then proceeded to recapture Travis Tower's base floor and then to the main landing pad. Throne, Travis and Mack proceeded to continue further up the tower. Once at the top, Throne and Travis began to pick off Covenant patrols while Mack covered them and shot down multiple banshees and phantom guns as well. However, multiple Covenant drop pods and drop ships intercepted them and caught the squad off guard. 
While Mack laid heavy fire to cover them, Travis and Thorne tried to find a way down until a falcon came and provided the ODSTs the cover needed to board and escape. Mack and his squad were able to met up with the rest of Alpha-6 and the team went to UNSC Pudak Base for redeployment. 
==== Operation: Double Flex ====
Being redeployed from Pudak Base, Alpha-6 was assigned to capture a Covenant outpost blocking civilian transports and UNSC supply routes. The team engaged a small Covenant patrol guarding the path to the outpost. The team soon found a scorpion and used it to take out several raised platforms along the way. The team then found two AA guns and took them down. As the team proceeded to keep moving they eventually found the outpost and attacked. 
As Throne and Cougar continued to rampage with the tank, MacHelm led the rest of the squad into the base. Once inside, the ODSTs cleared out the local Covenant forces and placed charges along the hanger bay and courtyard. Mack then detonated the charges, crippling the Covenant defense of the area. Once the charges were blown, MacHelm contacted Command to begin phase two which had the UNSC Air Force bomb the area around the base and some of the remaining structures inside. Afterwards, Thorne and Cougar reunited with the rest of Alpha-6 and the team infiltrated the main compound. 
Once inside, the team found an elevator shaft leading to a chamber around 1,000 feet underground. The ODSTs found a Forerunner AI entitled, The Actuarial. The AI was tasked with calculating probabilities for several different events including the fall of the Forerunners. The team learned that the AI was being used by the Covenant to see how fast until the war was over. Soon however, a large Covenant platoon came and engaged the soldiers. Mack, realizing that the AI had to be captured, used several Covenant explosives to close a gate for them and open a hole wide enough for pelicans to pick up the AI. 
Pelican crews did recover the AI and just as another pelican came to extract the team, the Covenant broke through and injured Mack and MacHelm. Luckily the team was able to get them out and and, unknown to the team, Mack detonated seismic charges, completely destroying the outpost and its sub-terrain tunnels with it. 
==== Battle of Descendit ====
Once the AI was recovered by , Alpha-6 resumed combat with Covenant forces when they struck the city of Descendit. The team was deployed to the city to stop a Covenant convoy from resupplying the main front and if necessary, eliminated that front. As the team got onto the highway, they were engaged by a drone squad. As the team was fending off the squad, the convoy passed underneath them. Wasting no time, Mack hooped onto the last Shadow along with Cougar and Rhodes. 
While on the convoy, the three ODSTs decided to take it out, vehicle by vehicle. As Cougar and Rhodes made it to the one ahead, Mack used his rocket launcher and destroyed the engine of the one they jumped on. As the Shadow was slowing down, he jumped to the next, being caught by Rhodes. The three continued on and, with a small engagement by Covenant forces, successfully took down the convoy and stopped at the front. 
Once at the front, the three attacked the Covenant stationed there and punched a hole in Covenant defenses. After the hole was punched, the three led a charge onto the main Covenant staging area with other army and marines forces closing in on the area as well. During the assault, Mack and Rhodes were able to take out a Covenant communications tower and captured the main LZ for the corvette orbiting the city. Alpha-6 then infiltrated the the ship along with several other squads and within twelve minutes, captured the entire ship. As the corvette was captured, another Covenant fleet came into orbital and glassed the city, including the Corvette. All of Alpha-6 was able to escape, but a majority of UNSC squads inside the ship were killed. 
That night, Alpha-6 were deployed to defend the Descendit Hospital in the southern part of the city near the local space elevator. The team encountered little to no Covenant until a large squad attacked and infiltrated the building. As the team fended off the Covenant, another squad infiltrated the rear entrance of the Hospital and boxed in the team. Mack and MacHelm covered the rear while the rest guarded the main door. Soon, Travis was wounded by a Brute Chieftain and eventually killed. The squad was backed into a corner and pinned down. As the ODSTs struggled to survive, Alpha-2 was sent in and saved the team, though couldn't save another from death, Rhodes was killed with a needle round in the eye. The team was then evacuated via two falcons while Alpha-2 cleared up the remaining Covenant inside. 
While sitting in the back of a falcon, Mack and Throne were able to lay waste to a few Covenant patrols on rooftops and banshees patrolling the area around them. The falcon crew did the same and were able to get a few pelicans away from the city and out of Covenant hands. Once the team landed back at Cromwell Tower, they were sent on a small recon party to the coast by the airport to assist in a civilian evac ops. Luckily for the team, the evacuation went smoothly with no Covenant in the area during the operation. 
The next two days, Alpha-6 was constantly on the move, going to building by building clearing out any and all Covenant possible. Unknowingly, Mack came across a Covenant communication device and turned it into Command for debriefing. Afterwards, Alpha-6 was deployed to a Covenant movement thanks to the comms device stole by Mack. The ODST set up a roadblock and were able to catch incoming Covenant off guard and whipped out a large portion of the assault crew. However, two wraiths and a squad of revenants were able to bust through. Mack, not liking to leave the job half-finished, chased down the convoy and was able to kill off two revenants and one of the wraiths. The convoy then opened fire, but he was lucky to survive by ducking into an ally way. After reporting to Command, the squad was redeployed outside the city, leaving the rest to the Air Force and other ODST squads. 
==== Retake of Gomez City ====
Alpha-6 was redeployed with the frigate, Forsaken, to clear out the rest of the Covenant in Gomez City, as they still held a large portion of the city there. The team was deployed with a large attack force while the Forsaken gave them covering fire and did several bombing runs over the city. As the ODSTs moved through the city, they stormed the ONI building in the heart of the city and were able to recapture the outside courtyard with several members of naval personnel. 
While MacHelm and Throne were briefed on the content of the building, Mack and Cougar defended the main gate with the ONI guards. While the ODSTs did their best, the guards were soon overwhelmed and killed, leaving the main gate defenseless. Mack and Cougar were forced to retreat back inside where they were joined by several more guards and the rest of Alpha-6. Once the Covenant busted in, the ODSTs did all they could and were able to hold the main lobby while reinforcements joined them in the defenses. After a few more minutes, Mack was ordered to destroy the building to which he happy obliged. After several charges were placed the remaining defenses loved into an elevator and awaited evacuation on the roof of the building. A pelican was able to pick them up and Mack detonated the explosives, causing the building to collapse and killed several Covenant. 
Afterwards, Alpha-6 was deployed to capture a Covenant supply LZ and await further ODST forces. The squad was deployed right next to the LZ and were engaged by Covenant forces also instantly after hitting the ground. The Covenant resistance was light and the landing zone captured as more UNSC forces arrived near Alpha-6's position. Alpha-6 was then recalled back to the Forsaken and watched the Covenant leave the planet, resulting in a UNSC victory. 
=== Battle of Draeus ===
Alpha-6 along with the Forsaken were deployed to the colony world of Draeus to combat the Covenant invasion currently happening there. Alpha-6 was deployed to the two of Reznor to combat the growing Covenant threat in the area. Mack had also been promoted during the time between Octan and Draeus achieving the rank of . 
==== Battle of Reznor ====
Being deployed from the Forsaken, Alpha-6 and Mack were sent to board the Covenant carrier orbiting the city while other ODST units did the same. The team successfully landed on the ship and proceeded to board via the upper hull. Once inside, the team fought off Covenant guards and soon located the main reactor core. While Mack was placing explosives along the core, the rest of the team attacked the hanger and stole a spirit from inside. After the charges were placed, Mack entered the hanger and ordered all ODSTs to leave at once then blew the core, effectively destroying the ship. 
Afterwards, the team used the spirit to commit bombing runs against Covenant forces and even attacked a Covenant air strip. The team was able to push back against the Covenant and had addition air support from falcons and pelicans in the area. Once the air strip was captured, Alpha-6 took to the skies and went to Fort Richardson to assist in the station's defenses. Mack and Thorne went to rearm the AA guns while MacHelm and Cougar stayed at the main compound defending it with local marine support. After Mack and Throne reactivated the AA's the returned to the compound and watched the AA's shot down a corvette bombing the area. 
That night, Mack and MacHelm ran a counter-op against the Covenant with the objective being to eliminate hostile air control and secure Sector 3 of the city. As the troopers took off, they headed towards the local night club, Ezra's Palace to rescue a squad of army soldiers there. Once the two landed, they cleared the main landing platform of Covenant and headed inside. The ODSTs were able to assist the army soldiers in clearing the room and set up a beacon inside and used it for a rally point. 
Afterwards the duo returned to their falcons and began clearing away Covenant air patrols and including banshees and phantoms. The two later were sent to the Peacock Building to kill off a squad of elites and engineers who had more ODSTs pinned down. After the ODSTs were saved, Mack was called over to escort a medical pelican to the save zone outside the city. Mack was able to shot down several banshees and was able to get the pelican out of the city, but with a few scratches. As Mack returned to the city, he witnessed its glassing as four cruisers came overhead and began the process. Though he was horrified, Mack returned to MacHelm and the two went to Crystal Tower to capture some values in Covenant hands. The two entered the building and were engaged by a small Covenant brute squadron. After gaining access to the CEO's office, MacHelm downloaded data while Mack assisted a trooper squad already inside the tower. After the data was downloaded, the group returned to the falcons and returned back to the main UNSC base inside the city. 
The following day, Alpha-6 was sent to the Nature Reserve to assist Third Platoon that was deployed last night. The team was able to link with a few teams from the platoon and together they pushed towards Third Platoon's position. During the assault, Cougar became wounded via a wraith blast near his position. Mack went to action and covered Cougar and soon led a distraction away from his squad so that they could recover. While on the run, Mack found Third Platoon pinned down with a jammer nearby. Mack deactivated the jammer and requested an immediate reinforcements. 
Once the reinforcements arrived, Alpha-6 was able to reunite with Mack and the team was able to clear the Covenant from the area just as another cruiser reached the city. All UNSC forces in the city were then extracted including Alpha-6. 
==== Mission to Dova Plains ====
Hearing of a Covenant dig site on the opposite side of the planet, Alpha-6 was deployed to investigate the discovery and report back or eliminate the find. Once the team was at the destination, they entered the dig area and cleared it of Covenant. Going deeper into the mine, the ODSTs found a Forerunner artifact, to large to move out of the planet. MacHelm agreed to have the artifact buried by any means necessary, regardless of the squad. Mack and Cougar went around and primed Covenant explosives while MacHelm and Thorne cleared out the local Covenant forces. After all possible Covenant explosives were primed, Mack and Cougar regrouped with the rest of Alpha-6 who the escaped the mine via a water pathway at the base of the artifact. 
After swimming at least a quarter of a mile, Mack detonated the explosives, destroying the artifact. Yet the explosion was so large, it forced the ODSTs about an extra mile and a half away rom their current position with only minor injuries. The team was then able to regain access to the surface and found a Covenant patrol in the area. Without wasting anytime, Alpha-6 attacked the patrol while Thorne contacted Command for a pickup. As the patrol was killed, a pelican came and took the squad off world back to the Forsaken due to a majority of the planet being glassed. 
=== Fall of Reach ===
Mack and the rest of Alpha-6 were deployed to on August 15, 2552 to combat the large Covenant deployment already on the planet. The team was deployed to Ivory Square, a town somewhere near the city of . Once there, the troopers went to work clearing out local hostile infantry and fought their way down the town's main road and into the true town square. Once there, the squad was joined by other ODST units and a of unknown identification. MacHelm and the Spartan would led the new ODSTs while the rest of Alpha-6 would do recon on the surrounding buildings and parks. 
During the recon, Mack encountered a General surrounded by several troopers and other members of the Covenant. Mack then noticed a guass cannon and began to open fire on the Covenant with it and nearly killed the General. However, the General escaped but his troops did not as they were all killed by Mack. Thorne and Cougar then came in and were told the situation and the three gave chase to the Sangheili. However, he escaped via phantom and with it, injured Cougar to the point of death. Afterwards, the team brought him back to a UNSC outpost for patch up. Once there, Mack heard about MacHelm and the rest of the platoon were pinned down with the Spartan. 
Mack and Thorne then set out to find their squad mate in a scorpion to give needed fire power. As they found MacHelm, the two realized that almost half the platoon was dead and that MacHelm injured with the Spartan holding off a majority of the Covenant. While Mack held off the Covenant with the Spartan, Thorne called in several evac birds and medical pelicans to get the ODST platoon out alive. Once the pelicans came in, Thorne and MacHelm entered the ships with the surviving ODSTs with Mack and the Spartan getting on last. Once in the air, Mack blew the tank, and killed some remnants of the Covenant assault force. 
==== Siege of New Alexandria ====
Three days later, the city of  was placed under siege by the Covenant with Alpha-6 and a majority of UNSC forces responding. Alpha-6 was deployed to the streets of New Alexandria to secure a few blocks from Covenant forces. The squad met up with marine forces and mounted a formidable defense against the Covenant. However, the team was overwhelmed by Brutes and the line broke forcing Mack to Plan B. Using a target locator, Mack targeted the main assault force and watched the fireworks cover them, killing almost the entire battalion. Afterwards, the rest of Alpha-6 cleared up the force and began to rebuild the line with addition forces. 
Alpha-6 would hold the road block until they were rejoined by MacHelm the following morning. The team would be reassigned to the West Barricade to secure its boarders with and other spartans. Mack and Emile would eliminate incoming banshees squads using Rockets and Spartan Lasers while the rest of Alpha-6 would defend from the ground. Thanks to falcon crews coming in to fortified the location, Alpha-6 was reassigned to the Botanical Gardens in Sector 12 of the city. Once inside the gardens, Alpha-6 met with local law enforcement and other marines preparing to charge a Covenant control building in the area. The soldiers were able to take back the gardens' main Covenant stronghold and move through the rest of the area. 
Mack then led some marines and law enforcers around the perimeter of one of the many enclosures to cleared out some Covenant. After the gardens were cleared, Mack and the rest of Alpha-6 fortified the location and used a nearby defense grid to guard the road by the gardens. The team stayed in the area for two more days until finally being evacuated after a large attack force came into the city and glassed an area right by them. 
==== Battle of Aszod ====
Alpha-6 was deployed to assist in the defense of the while members of escorted a package to the ship. Alpha-6 remained in the shipwrecking yards with other marines forces as the Covenant attacked. While the team was defending the yard, the spartans arrived and assisted in clearing the area. Once Noble made it into the main compound, the ODSTs were taken to a pelican docking bay Echo and awaited pickup to the Forsaken. After defending the platform from local Covenant forces, the last pelican made it to the platform and took Alpha-6 off world. 
=== Battle of Earth ===
Arriving late to the battle, Mack and Alpha-6 arrived on Earth on October 29th 2552. The team was deployed to Moscow to assist Sierra Team in securing UNSC data. Alpha-6 led a distraction to led a majority of the Covenant away from Sierra and they did so flawlessly. However, Alpha-6 soon became pinned down and outgunned. The team held off the Covenant until additional army soldiers came and evacuated the ODSTs and took them deeper into the city. Once in the heart of the capital, Alpha-6 were deployed to secure the Kremlin from a Covenant assault. 
During the assault, orbital bombardment was permitted and cleared almost their entirety of the Red Square. Afterwards, the ODSTs were sent on a scouting mission to a UNSC outpost on the boarder of the city. The scout mission went smoothly with a few minor engagements with Covenant forces throughout the city. Once at the outpost, Alpha-6 reactivated station defenses and fortified several positions around the facility. After another day in Russia, army soldiers came and remained at the position allowing Alpha-6 to leave. 
==== Battle of Egypt ====
Alpha-6 was deployed to Cairo to halt a Covenant attack in the early along with the rest of the 233rd Battalion of ODSTs. The soldiers arrived in the cover of night in trenches dug by Egyptian forces days prior. When the Covenant army hit, several anti-vehicles turrets were installed and the marines hold off the Covenant. Soon, the Covenant entered the trenches causing Mack to engage them and clear out the bunkers under them if necessary. Mack came out of the trenches and found a way behind Covenant lines. Once there, Mack ambushed the Covenant along with other marines while the rest of Alpha-6 and marines cut off the escape route. 
After the Covenant escape route was cut off, the remaining UNSC soldiers boxed the Covenant in and destroyed Covenant supplies and ammunition. Afterwards, the ODSTs found a Covenant bunker in which they stormed and nearly burned to the ground. However, afterwards a Covenant platoon came in to reinforce the Covenant forces stationed there. Mack and Alpha-6 put the feet in and held the area until UNSC air support arrived and saved the remaining soldiers. Additional pelicans came in and dropped scorpions and warthogs alike to further fortify the area and give the battalion a ride to a station further north. 
===== Operation: Supercharge =====
Moving up north, the 233 Battalion were engaged by a large Covenant station currently blocking off Egypt from the rest of the continent. The Battalion spilt into groups of six behind each scorpion as the tanks led the charge towards the Covenant. Once reaching a bunker, Alpha-6 and the rest of the battalion entered the bunker the while tanks proceeded further onward. While in the bunker, Mack found several anti-vehicle guns and quickly destroyed them as Alpha-6 continued forward. Linking back up with the scorpions, the Battalion pushed on and encountered a large Covenant controlled town being used as an outpost. 
After the ODSTs stormed the town and recaptured it, more Covenant arrived with extra heavy armaments. Mack and Alpha-6 were tasked with pointing out targets for a target locator. The armament of the Covenant were eliminated by the locator and the town fortified and recaptured by UNSC forces. However, the Covenant launched a massive counterattack and pushed the boarder defenders back into the city. Mack and Alpha-6 were able to repel a small portion of the attack from a dilapidated building but to no avail. The ODSTs were able to escape the building took a warthog to clear the main courtyard of the city. 
Mack and Thorne gunned down Covenant while MacHelm drove with Cougar leading a scorpion charge to fortify the boarders. Due to overwhelming forces, the Battalion was forced to retreat from the town while more Covenant arrived. Alpha-6 cleared the path and defended it until all UNSC personnel escaped then they left as well. However, Mack placed a beacon and after the UNSC pulled out, orbital rounds from the Forsaken hit the town and killed all remaining Covenant. 
== Post Ear Era ==
After the war ended, Alpha-6's members were promoted for their actions with Mack achieving the rank of . Alpha-6 was also joined by Private Radcliffe and Cpl. Smith from the 271st Battalion. 
=== Battle at Hiro Kappa ===
In early 2555, the station of Hiro Kappa was attacked by a Covenant fleet trying to capture a Covenant supercarrier given to the station by after the war ended for studies. Alpha-6 arrived on the Forsaken and the team went to work and boarded the station. Once on board, the ODSTs went to work and cleared the Covenant from Beta Habitat. Afterwards, the team moved on through into the lower stations of the facility and dislodged Covenant phantoms and effectively killed all on board. Afterwards, Mack was placed in hanger C-14 to hold the position until the Forsaken could move into position. 
After clearing out more Covenant, Mack was joined by Smith and Radcliffe and the three moved to the MAC cannon to create a true defense for the station. After engaging a small Covenant resistance, the ODSTs rearmed the MAC cannon and watched the Covenant fleet burn and getting shot down. After regrouping with the rest of Alpha-6, Mack and his squad cleared out the remaining Covenant forces on the station. 
== Spartan-IV Career ==
In early 2558, Mack was conscripted into the after recommendation from MacHelm and so, Mack entered the program and was assigned to Shield Team soon afterwards. 
===Battle over Fulken ===
====Second Generation ====
LT Colonel Kyle-A245 was then resigned with Logan-G026 and 4 Spartan IV’s to become the next generation of Shield Team.  After training together, the team began their first mission, to hunt the remnants of the Fleet of Regretful Redemption.  Joining up with the Separatist Commander,  Zaz ‘Solok and his  soldiers and made their way to Fulken, a sangheili colony to attack the Sub-Fleet of Seeker of the Demise and its commander, Ship Master Thel ‘Vadum.  
====Attacking the Sub-Fleet ====
Arriving at Fulken, the UNSC Rio and the carrier Helper of Truth were engaged by Thel’s forces forcing ‘Solok and Shield into action.  Using a phantom drop ship, the spartans and sangheili boarded the flagship, Hunter of Mercy and began to clear out the hanger.  Unknown to all, ‘Vadum’s forces planned on this act and Thel made his way to the hanger.  Once at the hanger, ‘Vadum began to dual ‘Solok while Shield and his Swords contained their objective.  
After clearing the hanger, Zaz was pinned down and right arm severed.  Acting in hopes to save a hero from San Andreas, Kyle picked up a dropped Energy Sword and stabbed the Ship Master in his spin, killing him.  Giving the all clear sign, and leaving the carrier, the Rio and Helper of Truth destroyed the remnants of the sub-fleet.  
===Battle over Clifton ===
====Clifton Goes Dark ====
On December 13th, 2561 the human colony of Clifton stop transmitting an all clear signal, and in response, the UNSC sent a cruiser to investigate.  The cruiser’s last transmission was that of a Sangheili warrior wearing the emblem of Krudom.  Thus the UNSC Rio and the Fleet of Glorious Redemption, now lead by Fleet Master ‘Solok to destroy the fleet.  The fleet was lead by the infamous Ship Master Kaliv Rahgath of the Sub-Fleet of Gracious Allies.  The minute of arrival to Clifton, the fleet and Rio was attacked by Rahgath’s forces and the battle quickly insured. 
====The Fall ====
Deployed using Booster Frames from the Rio, Shield Team made their way through the Sub-fleet and easily found the flagship, Shadow of Death.  Logan-G026, Mack, and Spartan Vono contained using the frames to distract the Covenant along with cover from the Glorious Redemption and its flagship, Helper of Truth; while Kyle-A245, Spartan Cross, and Spartan Miles went inside to take out Kaliv and tend to possible captives.  Deploying multiple seraphs to combat the booster frames, Rahgath fortified the bridge and began his trap, by moving the fleet to surround the booster frames and trapping them inside.
Flying over the circle, Rahgath activated the ship’s glassing port, hitting and killing Logan and Mack.  Making their way to the prison, Shield-1 entered only to see a hologram Rahgath and several honor guards.  Shooting the guards, Shield was in a panic as they were soon overwhelmed, Shield was captured and imprisoned.  Rahgath then demanding a ransom for the spartans or their deaths, not agreeing to the price, Spartan Vono went out on a solo op, sneaked on the cruiser and freed Shield.  
== Psych-Interviews ==
=== Personality ===
Brian Mack has been described as a respectable man with high hopes and a "happy-go-lucky type of personality. Mack was known for his hard-hitting, joker of a personality and always aspire to be a soldier no matter the cost. Brian was also known for his morals as he always stayed loyal to the UNSC. Brian was also extremely loyal to the UNSC and his squad no matter the situation and opened up arms to anyone new in Alpha-6 or Shield Team. 
Brian takes his military occupation very seriously in order to honor his family before him and his nephews as well. However, Mack has been known to be a risk taker and does several operations behind his squad mates backs, mostly planting explosives secretly. Due to this, makes Mack quite unpredictable, a trait his superiors admire. 
=== Physical Appearance ===
Brian has been described as having a rugged face with very short black hair and pensive blue eyes. Mack lacked any facial hair as he saw it as a sign of disrespect and uncleanness. Mack stood at 7ft 4in, making him about the tallest member of Shield Team. Despite being the tallest however, Mack was not the strongest. Though equality as strong as Lopez, he was no where near as strong as he could be. Mack also packed a slender face to compensate for his plastic surgery after the war ended to cover up the scars. 
Mack's over strength came from his amazing stamina and technical prowess. Mack could easily hold out on a position for hours, even days on end as shown during the battle of Earth in 2552. Mack's stamina has also stretched into the spartan career as he doubled it along with his durability reach levels of something super-human abilities. 
== Quotes ==
== Confirmed Kills ==
Least to Greatest
Hunters: 8
Engineers: 16
Drones: 74
Humans: 286
Brutes: 837
Jackals: 955
Elites: 1,492
Grunts: 1,633
Total Kills: 5,301 (2548-2561)Category:SPARTAN-IV
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