Daniel Reinhardt

Brigadier General Daniel Reinhardt is a Commonwealth Marine Corps commando currently commanding the 4th Mobile Expeditionary Unit as of 2568. Born on the planet of Darwin, Reinhardt would join the planet's local UNSC militia upon turning 18, and would then, through prolific studying and more than a few political connections his parents had, secure a spot at the prestigious Reach Officer Institute. He would spend two years as an officer candidate before finishing his accelerated course. Reinhardt was then selected to undertake the UNSC's notoriously difficult Force Recon School on Ballast, before being sent on multiple long-range reconnaissance missions throughout the 2540s. 
Reinhardt would participate in the Fall of Reach as a FORECON sniper, and the Battle of Earth as 2IC of a marine raider regiment in the fighting around Tanzania. Upon the declaration of independence of the Commonwealth of New South Wales in 2554, Reinhardt acquired a transfer to the new military, of which his home planet was a part of. Fighting through the Created Crisis and New Zanzibar Front, as of 2564 he is the commander of the Commonwealth's Z Special Unit.
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==Biography==
Daniel Charles Reinhardt was born to Rolf and Eliza Reinhardt on the 23rd of August, 2524 on the planet Darwin. He was sent to the prestigious Kings School in the capital city of Newtown, due to his parents wealth as the owners of several deuterium mining companies. Both of his parents expected him to take over their business, however Daniel was disinterested, instead taking a keen interest in the military. Specifically, he had read about the exploits of the UNSC Marine Corps in their battles against the Covenant, and wanted to enlist and become an officer.
=== UNSC FORECON, 2542 - 2552 ===
When he turned 18 in 2542, he immediately went to the UNSC recruiting office in Newtown, and applied for officer candidate school. Whilst his application was processed, he continued onwards at school, scoring very high in his final year's exams. His grades allowed him to be accepted for officer candidacy, however his parents' political connections within the UEG meant that rather than attending a local military college, he was sent to the prestigious Reach Officer Institute. He would spend two years there, graduating in 2544 as the third-highest cadet in his class. He was then sent to the notoriously-tough Force Recon school on Ballast.
On Ballast he would learn the trade of force reconnaissance with veterans of the Human-Covenant War, trained by some of the UNSC Army and Marine Corps' best personnel, including several SPARTAN-III Headhunters. This training was grueling, tough and tedious for all candidates, however in the exercises there was a hint of desperation, as what was usually a three-year course pre-war was condensed into 365 extremely busy days. By the end of the course, most of the trainees had barely slept more than three hours every night.
Almost immediately after completing the course, Reinhardt was deployed to the UNSC's 23rd FORECON Group, who were deployed to the world of Franklin training UNSC recruits, and expanding the planet's ground fortifications. This job was boring yet uneventful, a fact which disgruntled Reinhardt, who wished to see combat. In fact it wouldn't be until 2548 when the 23rd would be redeployed from Franklin to Paris IV, which was a frontline Inner Colony planet.
Reinhardt would be on Paris IV for three months, before a Covenant battlefleet finally arrived, inaugurating the Siege of Paris IV. The Covenant ground force quickly secured a bridgehead on the planet, necessitating the deployment of 23rd FORECON, and by extension, Reinhardt, who would lead a platoon of raiders in multiple incursions into Covenant-occupied territory, Reinhardt and his men would scout out forward-deployed Covenant weapons caches, supply depots and rally points, marking them for raids by UNSC Shortsword bombers. This back-line raiding would continue for the remainder of the campaign, until the 23rd FORECON were evacuated off-world mere hours before the planet was glassed. This would be Reinhardt's first taste of action, and the first time he was exposed to the horrors that would befall civilians and soldiers captured by the Covenant.
After this battle, in 2549 the 23rd FORECON were sent to Meridian, where they would fight another bloody siege against the Covenant, this time as regular line infantry. After three weeks of intense fighting, the entire unit would be withdrawn after taking 65% casualties, and sent to Reach to recuperate and slowly rebuild its strength. On Reach, Reinhardt would be promoted to the rank of Captain, and given command of the 23rd FORECON's 2nd Company due to the significant casualties taken by the 23rd. Daniel didn't consider this a recognition of his skill, a fact which would eat at him for the rest of his time with the 23rd. They would stay on Reach until July of 2552, where they would be deployed with Admiral Stanforth's Task Force Leviathan to Sigma Octanus IV. However, the 23rd would not be sent down to the surface with the main force, being kept back as reinforcements for General Kit's brigade combat team. Despite the loss of almost the entire UNSC force dispatched to the surface, the 23rd were still not deployed, as SPARTAN-II fireteams were instead sent down to deal with the stranded Covenant forces.
==Personality==