Chapter Two
After that brief combat dialogue, here is an introduction to Sabre team and how it came to be. Though, I did not discover this information even though * *** ****** ** *** **** *** **** *****.
Sabre team had gotten it's start when an anonymous ONI official had requested that the Office of Naval Intelligence have it's own personal strike team to quickly and effectively react to small, sudden outbreaks of Covenant and Insurrectionists. No one is sure exactly when this was, but it is estimated to be ***** *** *** as by the time knowledge of this "Sabre Team" was out in public nearly all records had been wiped clean. What we do know is that Sabre team was created shortly after the official's request was made. It was made up of five Spartan III's from Alpha company, who, along with less than thirty of their counterparts, were pulled out of active duty by Kurt Ambrose and Franklin Mendez just before Operation PROMETHEUS. Whoever created the name Sabre team must have been a god-damn fortune teller. Later, when officials discovered it's files they mistook it to be Saber team, a Gamma company SIII team that had perished on Onyx, and therefore ignored it. At first.
By the time of the team's dismissal from ONI and during it's most effective time, Sabre team had only one member left from the original team, Jacob. He started out as the lowest rank member of the squad during it's early phases as slowly, each member lost their life or was reassigned. Under Jacob's eventual leadership Sabre team had the highest number of Spartan's of any squad up to now.
Many in ONI believed it was a gross misevaluation of valuable resources to have eight Spartans on one team, especially with Spartan resources spread so thin. That being said, the only people who actually knew of the team's existence, were high ranking officials who were usually more interested with political power than the war with the Covenant.
So, Sabre team was able to evade political criticism for what is generally thought to be over ninety percent of the time it existed.
Thus it's various leaders were able to enjoy virtually unlimited funding and materials during it's operation time.