Roger "Iron" Earnest

Spartan Roger Earnest (Service Number 53674-55550-RE) is the Spartan-IV weapon specialist of Fireteam Hope and a grizzled war veteran of the Human-Covenant War. He has been remarked as either one of the luckiest or one of the unluckiest marines during the war, having participated in the conflict since 2527 and surviving to the war's end. He was later given the nickname Iron Earnest after showing an unbroken resolve during even the most crushing defeats. 
==Biography==
===Security Officer===
When Earnest was eighteen (2523) he was stationed as a security officer at an armory on the UNSC colony of Victoria in the Tauri system. He took his job very seriously despite there not being anything interesting going on. To him he enforced rules that hardly anyone challenged. To cure himself of his boredom he made many trips to the armory's shooting range on his spare time. While there he experimented with the many firearms the UNSC had to offer. He would often test himself, seeing if he could reload or hit the targets faster than he had on his previous visit. 
===Human-Covenant War===
Two years after the Covenant invaded Harvest Earnest had been drafted into the UNSC Marine Corps. His training was rushed, but this didn't affect much given his experience as a security officer. This however would be his first taste of real conflict. Even during the first couple of battles he experienced at Harvest this war shook him to his core. It wasn't basic training that had changed him but the war itself. He became altruistic yet unattached the marines he served with. He knew the survival rate of his fellow marine was small, but even with this knowledge he tried to save as many of them as he could. He saw himself and others as small gears that made up the larger war machine.
Throughout the war Earnest would always find himself at a battle's worst moments. Often fighting during the bloodiest parts of any battle whether he wanted it or not. As he got shuffled to almost a completely different squad of marines between each battle he began to form a unique reputation. Not only was he remembered for being a survivor but an extremely ruthless soldier. After each conflict he would need to have most of his armor replaced due to how little of it would be left. The other marines and his commanding officers would notice that he always fought with the same grit with or without armor. After the battle of Actium, he would earn the nickname "Iron Earnest" after nearly losing his life to an elite while strangling him to death.
===Drill Seargeant===
To his surprise Earnest survived the remainder of the war, and without losing any of his limbs. He assumed he would retire, but some of his former superior officers had recommended he become a drill sergeant. At first he wanted to decline, but then he realized that the newest generation would be become complacent. He figured it would be best if a veteran taught some new recruits how to be a real soldier in his eyes. Once he became a drill sergeant, he was station to a UCMB on Mars (December 2553). He never kept count of how many men and women he trained. He was always concerned with treating each recruit the exact same as the one before them. He would train civilians into soldiers for four years before being granted a special opportunity.
===Augmentations===
Near the end of the year 2556 Earnest's formal superior officers would recommend him to Spartan Operations. The organization considered Earnest to be an accepted candidate and sent him an invitation. He only accepted after believing that he did not do very a good job at training soldiers to the standards he wanted them to be, and thus Roger "Iron" Earnest was augmented to become a Spartan-IV. Nearly a year later while on a mission against a Covenant splinter group his life was saved by a squad of lowly marines. After the battle he learned that these marines were some of his formal trainees. This surprisingly inspired him and had completely changed his demeanor. He had found a new form of optimism for the UNSC generations to come. It was this very optimism that later got him assigned to Fireteam Hope. No matter what threats are thrown the UNSC's way Roger Earnest will unwaveringly defend it.