User:Forerunner/math

From what we know, thirty-three SPARTAN-IIs made it through the augmentation procedure. Let's calculate how many SPARTAN-IIs were active at the time of the Reach campaign

Notes before math
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 * BLACK Team, it is believed, were taken from an extra three survivors, whose deaths were falsified.
 * Halsey had hopes that the wash-out SPARTANs could be recovered.
 * We don't know if Carris-137 was active after the augments.
 * We don't know the reasons surrounding Maria's retirement. Did she make it through augments, and therefore one of the 33? Was she too wounded to serve, but later got better? Same goes for Cassandra.
 * Were Daisy; Ralph and the other two counted as successful augments, or was their escape hushed-up with a lie about them having perished?
 * Sam died in 2525. -1
 * Kurt was abducted and his death falsified. -1
 * Jorge may have had the same done to him, considering his intel. -1
 * Solomon and Arthur died in a mission to retrieve Halsey, who had been abducted following Sheila's death. -3
 * Cal died in Babysitter. -1
 * Randall is still MIA after Reach -1
 * GREY Team (Mike; Jai and Adriana) simply weren't at Reach. -3
 * Douglas; Jerome and Alice went MIA in the '30s, unlikely to have been arrived home by the '50s due to the nature of their plight. -3
 * Naomi was pulled out at some point to become an ONI SPARTAN. -1

$$33-1-1-1-3-1-1-3-3-1=18$$

So, that's eighteen SPARTANs who we can confirm made it through the augmentation process; were official survivors and who served afterwards, who later took part in the RED FLAG developments. Eighteen. If you minus the undetermined guys in the notes, you have only eleven S-IIs left (officially - I must keep that stressed).