SPARTAN-III Alpha Company

Spartan-III Alpha Company was the first company of SPARTAN-III's. They were trained at Camp Currahee on Onyx by Lieutenant Commander Kurt Ambrose, formerly SPARTAN-051, one of the SPARTAN-II series. They were 497 of them recruited as four, five, and six year old's orphaned by covenenant attacks on various colonies including Jericho VII, Harvest, and Biko.

On their first day of training, Lieutenant Ambrose orders them to deploy in Falcon Wing aerial descent units, the safest in the UNSC, but still dangerous and especially so since this happened at night.

After Alpha company became official SPARTAN-III's, they were equiped with Semi-Powered Infiltration Armor, SPI Mark I. They were then assigned Operation: PROMETHEUS, an attack on a Covenant manufacturing site designated K7-47. Three hundred SPARTAN's hit dirt at 7:00 AM, July 27th with the intent of destroying as many of the reactors as possible until the liquid contents of the facility would solidify and permanently clog production. Initial resistance was light, and after two days seven reactors were disabled as a counterforce was organized by Covenant survivors of the initial attack, who were eliminated by Alpha Company. On day five, A massive counterforce appeared in orbit and descended to the surface, and on day seven, additional Covenant reinforcements arrived. Alpha Company had lost its unit cohesion and was cut off from their Calypso exfiltration craft. Operation PROMETEUS was a success in that the facility was rendered inoperable, yet there were no survivors from Alpha Company.

SPARTAN-III's from Alpha Company: Spartan-Shane Spartan-Robert Spartan-Jane