After the Covenant invaded Madrigal in 2528, Buck was deployed to assist in its defense. In sniper school, Buck earned the top marks of his class. Upon enlisting, he trained at several training facilities at Earth and Reach. It resulted in him still being intoxicated when he reported to the recruiter's office the next day. The night before he had to report to the UNSC for the first time, his father and uncle Lou threw him a going away party at the Leeward's dive bar. On December 5, 2528, at the age of eighteen, he enlisted in the UNSC Marine Corps. When he was young, he used to play a fair bit of football on Draco III. His civilian occupation is listed as student. Buck's last known place of residence is Karnak on Draco III, where he is also a citizen.

Afterwards, Buck performed CPR on her until she coughed up the water in her lungs. To prevent her attached safety line from snapping, Buck grabbed it while Lou hauled her back into the ship. During one of the fishing runs, a crew member of the ship fell into the sea. Serving aboard an industrial fishing ship, Buck and his uncle worked to catch the massive naeori that dwelled in the sea. During his summers, Buck apprenticed with his uncle Lou as a fisherman on Draco's Gold Sea. Buck's father was a dockworker and his mother formerly served in the UNSC Marine Corps, until she retired to raise Buck and his younger sister, Lucy. Įdward Malcolm Buck was born on Aug to working-class parents in Draco Mercy in New Albany, Lombard on Draco III. With the onset of the Created conflict, Buck left Osiris, reformed Alpha-Nine and married Dare, his long-term girlfriend. By August of 2558, he had completed 188 military operations, including 49 full campaigns. Following the war, Buck was promoted to SPARTAN-IV and eventually joined Fireteam Osiris, led by Jameson Locke. Regarded as an extremely skilled Marine, by the Battle for Earth, he was the leader of a small specialized fireteam, Alpha-Nine, which was appropriated by Captain Veronica Dare for a classified ONI mission before the drop on New Mombasa, Kenya in October 20, 2552. Ĭounting time spent in cryo-sleep, Buck was a 25-year veteran of the Covenant War and served in numerous battles.

You may be a Spartan, but you're goddamn human, too, and that's something you should be proud of.' - Musa Ghanem to Edward Buck, commemorating him for sparing Michael Crespo Įdward Malcolm Buck ( service number 92458-37017-EB) is a SPARTAN-IV supersoldier who served with the UNSC Marine Corps throughout the Human-Covenant War, the last years of which he spent as an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper.

The kind with the potential to save us all. Because you're not only a Spartan, you're the best kind.

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