UNSC Navy

• 2021 - Present

• UNSC Infinity, Expeditionary Strike Group 1 (2022-2023)

• UNSC Naval Command (2023-Present)

• Joshua Andrews - Third Commander

• Stiles McArthur - Fourth Commander

• Bradly Holdwell - Fifth Commander

• Captain Gracelyn - Sixth Commander

• Sarge M Golfer - Seventh Commander

• Joshua Andrewsx2 - Eighth Commander

• Ashley Harper - Ninth Commander

• Mike Xavier - Tenth Commander

• Aasif Olsen - Eleventh & Current Commander

The **Navy** is one of TacOpsComs longest supportive branches and has been in and around service for the last 9 years. The branch has had severe and unique changes made it to but has ultimately been used as a means to train up officers and be heavily roleplayed and strict.

DISCLAIMER: The history of the Navy from 2014-2018 was originally written by ADK K Flanders however during the Discord Raid of 2019 many channels including the history of the navy was destroyed. The following is the most accurate retelling possible.

# **HISTORY**

**2014**

In September 2014. General Commanding Officer **Victor Canfield** held a meeting between all Commanding Officers and Executive Officers about opening up the Navy branch. During this point the Marines under the control of **Nathan Callahan** was pushing away from the roleplay elements the branch was founded one and thus many enlisted who weren't fans of wanting to be comp felt unwanted. Canfield proposed a new entry branch, allowing more room for recruitment and to one up most UNSC clans at the time as no one had a navy or if they did it was cripplingly awful. This vote was pushed in favour of 4-1 and thus the Navy would begin to form, during it's construction Victor Canfield would appoint himself and be the interim Advisor.

After searching through the candidates it was decided the **ODST Executive Officer ODST K Flanders** would be the perfect choice following his experience in Parker's FleetCom. He would reform himself and be appointed as the first Commanding Officer of the Navy under the title **UNSC Seventh Fleet, Battle Group Victory**. Flanders would be promoted to Admiral however would in-game retain the rank and position of Captain and would jumpstart on producing the Navy. Come November, the navy had gained a total of 17 soldiers and would also house the first Spartan-IVs for the clan as a detachment under the Navy banner following a number shortage.

**2015**

By the time 2015 rolled around. The Navy would carry on to grow and would soon be recognised by the rest of the clan as. By October a big change had arrived to the Halo Clan Community with the launch of Halo 5, at this stage High Command was unclear on what to do, they still had majority operations on Reach and in their eyes felt Halo 4 failed them, moving over to Halo 5 could pose a bigger threat and if it ended up like 4 could really damage the clan not to mention Marine CO at the time **Jessica Halstead** didn't not want to move over and risk having to rebuild the marines a second time after the collapse eariler that year and would out right refuse any Marine Deployment on Halo 5 or she would resign, which is when **Flanders** and the Navy stepped in and opted to be the primary recruitment branch for Halo 5 while the Marines would retain themselves on Reach. In the end a perfect compromise was made with the Navy being the primary entry branch for 5 and the Marines being the primary for Reach (With a small deployment Platoon stationed on 5) until Halo 5 could prove to be a benefit to the clan community.

On the launch of Halo 5, the Navy was torn into two battlegroups, **Victory** and **Eclipse** with Victory would under **Lieutenant Joshua Andrews** remain on Halo Reach and 4 while Eclipse under the command of **Lieutenant Jr Grade David Hamilton**. Both groups would become more successful, bouncing off each other with activity and events on both sides and after the first few months the Marines finally pushed over in December that year with both branches now sharing the mantle of recruitment. During this time we would see some conflicts between staff over emblems and armour as the Marines wanted to use the Navy emblem however the Navy wanted it all to itself. It wouldn't be till a compromise was made that marines over rank 70 would equip the UNSC Emblem instead of the Navy, anyone caught using the navy after getting the unsc emblem would be warned and thus the tension stopped for a bit.

**2016**

The year would start off with unpleasant news; as ADM K Flanders would announce his retirement from the Navy and active service with him throwing in the towel on January 16th, the reaons aren't too well known but according to staff at the time Flanders had burnt out and wanted to focus more on their studies. With Flanders gone the Navy would promote **Lieutenant Commander David Hamilton** into the role of Commanding Officer, now David wasn't a bad CO infact during his run as Battlegroup Leader he had been far better then Andrews by miles, but David's life was picking up fast and he'd be almost only on discord and barely active at that until his resignation on the 3rd February.

Then finally was the mantle of CO given to **Commander Joshua Andrews**. While before High Command almost side-lined Andrews as Hamilton was far more liked as a person, Joshua would kick it out of park and was an outstanding leader who threw the navy into something more, during 2016 we would see the start of the **SAS Gaming Clan War**. GCO Victor Canfield gave strict orders to all branches on how to proceed and deal with the upcoming campaign and for the navy their mission was to act as Garrison and defend Clan Trainings mostly Cadet Trainings, and all events. The Navy would form 'fireteams' and lead open raid assaults on enemy positions. During this Andrews also ended the deployment of Battle Group Victory on Reach which had been stuck in a 8 month conflict with Defense Command which was going no where and brought her onto halo 5 along with opening up a new battlegroup called **Hurricane**, these three battlegroups would see heavy fighting and would defend successfully at least 23 engagements and lose only 5. This was a thanks to the brand new Special Forces sector at the time called "**Special Warfare One**" led by **Chief Petty Officer Aasif Olsen**.

While the Navy was winning left and right it was taking huge strains on the branch and would bend the Navy to it's limits. But Joshua never let down his crew and rose them up, during this war the Spartan-IVs would finally split off and form a full size branch. By the end of the year the SAS War was kicking off but the Navy had sustained heavy damage as new recruits were given more and more to the Marines and ODSTs, this caused staff to close down both Hurricane and Victory from service with a huge member drop but Andrews stayed strong and refused to let the Navy shutdown.

**2017/2018**

This would be the last year for the Navy in it's prime, TacCom would end up winning the SAS War however at a cost, on May 29th 2017 **Joshua** stepped down after the war, he just couldn't bring himself to fixing the branch after all the hard work and felt like no one thanked him for his efforts, he had kept the branch going till the end. Taking his place was **Lieutenant Stiles McArthur** who would only last till July 28th for being bored. **Ensign Bradly Holdwell** would last a bit longer and finally bring us back to fighting force with Victory reopening and a total of 29 members. Bradly would resign in November for wanting to join his friends in Orion Initiative.

**Captain "William" Gracelyn** would be the next and last in line for the navy. Gracelyn was a respectable leader and was taking the Navy to great lengths, boosting numbers and even being more active then most branches at the time, the Navy was becoming a real force to be reckon with that the idea to close the Marines and just have the Navy as the entry branch was actually talked about.

This year was a big change in the community; with the Sentinel Insurgency would rise up and begin to plague the UNSC Community, as her defender TOC was right there on the frontlines, and while most history's books will gloss over most details and only talk about how strong the clan was as a unit and how teamwork and brotherhood prevailed against Sentinel with the Spartan-IIs leading the charge and some of TOCs best War Leaders would be spawned from this conquest. However TOC did suffer major casualties, due to Sentinel forces breaching cadet days and destroying most defences our numbers fell alot, the Navy went from 34 strong to only 11 and still dropping. High Command along with War Command had to be tactical in how it played this war and needed to eliminated any and all weaknesses. Trying to sustain 5 branches with most of them on the verge of flatlining was not possible and the difficult choice to end the Navy was voted on and passed on April 24th, before properly shutting down; Captain Gracelyn and 7 other remaining Naval Members took a last stand on Onset and held their stand for 31 minutes before falling to Sentinel forces, a fitting end, perhaps if they won the raid Gracelyn could have fought to keep the branch alive but sadly Marines CO **Sarge M Golfer** who during the whole conflict had gained massive strings and held TOC by his hands made the call and the navy was shutdown. Gracelyn would retire unset over his child dying and most navy members would scatter to over clans.

**2019**

The Sentinel war had finished and our numbers began rising again, during this time **Zeke SIV** the GXO and SIV Commander made a push to bring back the Navy, High Command was tensed about the situation but with both the GCO & GXO interested Zeke began searching for former members, however with no response from Gracelyn or any ex-leadership they were forced to recruit in doors and so on May 6th, negotiations and proposals began but it wouldn't be till August 2nd that the Navy was finally activated under the leadership of Ex-Marine CO, the won who first suggestion to bring down the Navy and war leader **Lieutenant Sarge M Golfer**, the Navy would thrive in numbers but almost immediately hit more and more roadblocks; no real development was made following that and most of the branch became stuck, there many factors that played in the revival failing, with a leader who pushed to kill the Navy in control and the only member in the branch that was from the OG Navy was **Lieutenant JR Grade Franklin Mendez** and the community had changed heavily with roleplay and strictness just not something a large playerbase wanted. On 6th October Sarge would make a final remark and request a vote to end the Navy, killing it by his hands again.

**2020**

Nothing really took place during this time, however there were discussions in HIGHCOM to bring the Navy, this initiative was brought by **Carter A259** and **Jerome-092** but sadly they were always outvoted and blocked by the **GCO Jorge-052** who believed the clan was fine the way it was and didn't need to drag and tear this branch apart.

**2021**

This would be a confusing time for the Navy, as the Navy would return in some form under the banner of **7th Naval Battalion** under **Lieutenant Holly GOO3** who was the GXO at the time. This version of the Navy would be the foundation of **Naval Command** a separate branch to the Navy although in the same guidelines, this navy focused on lesser numbers to help with marine recruitment but everyone in this branch would be taught to be officers and would have more detailed duties, each member was either intelligence, admin or somesort of support worker for the branches. **Petty Officer First Class Mason Locke** would be promoted CO 18th of January. The navy grow in numbers for a time but after the hardwork thrown in it didn't matter and on 2nd of Feb. The branch was once more shutdown with a lack of interest and being rushed.

Later in the year however after the **Margaret vs Victor Canfield** war in which Margaret now **Isabel** would be promoted to GCO. Now as GCO Isabel wanted to the clan to thrive and be the top in all areas, this included having as many branches as possible with unique options to go with them. With help from **Isaac Madison** she tracked down **Joshua Andrews** and after a lot of convincing he was reinstated and on 23rd August and **Rear Admiral Joshua Andrews** would return to glory and lead the Navy into the best it's ever been.

**2022**

The Navy grew in numbers, loads of old members rejoined and the branch fought to be the best for roleplayers and casual players, Joshua would be promoted to General Executive Officer which for a short time threw **Lieutenant Commander Ashley Harper** into CO only to hand it back to Joshua on his step down from GXO.

Joshua would lead the Navy for another 4 fantastic months until his retirement on [24th April 2022]. And at last [Lieutenant Commander Ashley Harper] was given a proper chance to showoff her ability and 10 months later she's still the reigning leader and the Navy has boosted it's success greatly and is seen as one of the best branches once more.

**2023**

However in the late months of 2022 in November and December the clan as a whole would slowly decline into a state of inactivity all over including the navy, who weren't allowed to bring on any new members till their numbers lowered, and on the 5FEB2023 Ashley would hang up her 10 month reign as CO, marking as one of the longest serving COs in a long time and in her place, **Lieutenant Mike Xavier** would step up to the task and hold the branch fairly well although certainly had activity issues himself and would end up stepping away on the 27th March. This threw the Navy into a spiral if not for it's remaining staff team. **Lieutenant Jr Grade Aasif Olsen** who has shown more then once he's ready and up to the task of CO and is the best suited and that's where we leave off.