March 30, 2057
Only half a month and I was already driving a warthog troop transport into battle. I was armed with my shotgun and magnum. I hit a jump and the warthog did a barrel roll and landed upside down. Everyone climbed out of the hog. I told the marines to cover me while I flipped the warthog. I flipped the hog over and we jumped back in. To my left I saw elites shooting at troop of marines. To my right I saw some more marines being ganged up by two hunters. I split my troop into two. One half to the elites and me and the rest to the hunters. The marines got the hunters attention and I snuck up behind. I shot the hunter and it fell dead. I shot it right in the fleshy spot. A sniper on a cliff shot the other hunter right in the face. Then we moved to assist the marines fighting the elites. I ran to the hog and literally "charged into battle." A marine shoved an elite to the ground and I ran him over. I continued to run over elites and grunts. After they were all dead my team jumped backed in and we rode toward a spire. We took out every elite in the area. I was contacted by Captain Keys over communicator and he told me, "John, I'm sending you a bird to fly. I need you to fly a troop transport in an Eagle to a firebase site." I responded, "Sir yes sir."An Eagle is a new UNSC air unit. It's mostly used as a troop transport. But it can be built in three ways, Scout, Assault, and Transport. The Scout is smaller and faster and has a cloaking system. The cloaking system was found from a hijacked Phantom. The Assault has a mortar cannon on top, two side turrets, and a frontile minigun and rocket launcher. The troop transport is bigger then the Scout and Assault and has two side cannons and a frontile minigun and rocket launcher. The Eagle arrived and I took the controls. I had two people in the side turrets and a troop of about seven marines. I lifted us up into the air. On the way to the firebase we were attacked by about a dozen banshees. My side turrets were shooting down banshees from the side and I tried to keep us moving. I also had the team arm there guns and shoot. Just as we were seeing the LZ, we were shot down. The covenant had built a new smaller AA Gun which is what shot us down. The crew climbed out of the Eagle. As soon as we were all out we made a mad dash for the firebase. If we could just get to the range of the firebases turrents we would be home free.
