Laura Tanner

Sergeant Laura Tanner, call sign "Smokes", was a UNSC enlisted Marine in 2552. She was the pilot of a Pelican dropship, possibly based out of Base Segundo Terra on Earth. That year, during The Second Battle of Earth, Tanner and her crew chief, Corporal Jim Higgins, provided transportation for SPARTAN-104, SPARTAN-058, and SPARTAN-043 as they countered Covenant incursions on Havana and the Yucatan Peninsula.