Raptor Team

"No half-measures." - Unofficial mottoRaptor Team, often stylized as simply RAPTOR, was a four-man unit of Spartan-III commandos during the Human-Covenant War. Operating as a small, high risk combat unit, they were often deployed on hazardous and hostile environments to complete their objectives. 
=== OVERVIEW===
Under the operational command of CODENAME NEMO, the members of RAPTOR would complete objectives with extreme operating parameters, from infiltrating Insurrectionists strongholds to eliminate on individual, to delving far into Covenant territory to retrieve valuable data to the war effort. They most often cooperated with the Office of Naval Intelligence's Prowler Corp when undertaking these missions. 
===COMPOSITION===
thumb	Petty Officer Second Class Melody-A003 (Raptor Two) - Fierce. Relentless. As RAPTOR Team's scout, Melody-A003 proved capable of incredible feats of agility and speed, letting no obstacle impede her. As its CQC specialist, her ferocity in a fight would prove the downfall of many a foe. She would be confirmed KIA by plasma artillery in 2552, on New Jerusalem.
thumb	Petty Officer Second Class Nelson-A089 (Raptor Three) - Fearless. Precise. There were few things that could escape the observant eye of Nelson-A089, RAPTOR Team's marksman, and fewer still that could damper his spirits or quiet his chatter. He would be the first member of RAPTOR to fall on New Jerusalem, confirmed KIA when the team's Pelican would be shot down by AA plasma batteries.
thumb	Petty Officer Third Class Delvin-A125 (Raptor Four) - Tenacious. Brutal. Seemingly built for warfighting, not many things could stop Delvin-A125 once he was given an objective. As RAPTOR Team's demolitions specialist and heavy weapons expert, he had seen to the destruction of orbital facilities, fortresses, cruisers, and installations. His tenacity on the battlefield would see him through RAPTOR's final mission on New Jerusalem, and to being the only survivor.
 	Chief Petty Officer Elise-A100 (Raptor One) - Clinical. Pragmatic. Serving as RAPTOR Team's leader, Elise-A100 was an exceptional soldier even by Spartan standards. A brilliant strategist with a tendency for unconventional methods, she'd command RAPTOR Team from its conception to its destruction, being confirmed KIA by a Jiralhanae Chieftan in 2552, on New Jerusalem.
===OPERATIONAL HISTORY===
Operation TWO BIRDS
CLASSIFIED.
Operation KNICK KNACK
CLASSIFIED 
Operation KEEPSAKE
RAPTOR was sent to reclaim a stolen military AI seized by the United Rebel Front. Upon infiltrating the asteroid base in which the group was based, the Spartans quickly split off into two teams and began eliminating any opposition they encountered while searching for the AI's data crystal chip. Complications would arise when they would be revealed by the very, they sought to recover, its mind altered to the rebel's ideology and loyalty. Initiating a lockdown, the AI would attempt to corner the Spartans and route forces towards them, though this would ultimately fail. All would come to a head when it would remotely hijack two HRUNTING Mark III exoskeletons and engage the Spartans directly. After a pitched battle against the mechs, they would prevail, managing to locate both the AI and the servers on which massive volumes of sensitive UNSC information was stored by it. After carrying out sanitization procedures, they would exfiltrate with their objective in hand. 
Operation SHIVA
CLASSIFIED. 
Operation SNOWBOUND
RAPTOR is sent to recover several Office of Naval Intelligence civilian researchers that have been taken captive by Covenant, and to retrieve their data. 
Operation JACKAL
Deployed to neutralize an industrial site repurposed by the Insurrectionist to produce weaponry and ordinance. Managed to capture Insurrectionist commander, Captain Zhu Li, who oversaw the endeavor. 
Operation ROBIN HOOD 
CLASSIFIED. 
Operation RENEGE
Asset denial of artifacts and personnel captured by Covenant from the fallen colony of Rubric. 
Operation BLACKJACK
RAPTOR Team took advantage of a window of opportunity and would capture a Covenant Minister for interrogation by ONI. 
Operation STAGE LEFT 
A last-ditch effort to evacuate the remaining civilians and wounded on New Jerusalem, by destroying the Sh'wada-class supercarrier in orbit above the planet's remaining population center. While the remnant of the UNSC Army would shore up defenses and prepare for departure, the 26th Marine Expeditionary Force would engage in a rapid picket offensive against the Covenant, providing a sizable distraction for RAPTOR Team to infiltrate enemy lines and make their way on the supercarrier with a HAVOK nuclear warhead. Ultimately, the effort would result in a pyrrhic victory, the destruction of ship throwing both Covenant ground and naval forces into disarray. This would come at the cost of the decimations of Army forces, near obliteration of the 26th MEF, and loss of all but one member of RAPTOR Team.