Richard Bradley

"It's ok, sweetheart. Daddy's coming home soon."

- Rick to his daughter. Richard "Rick" Bradley   ( :   02819-53367) was a     in the    in the     during the   and Post War Era. He was the commanding officer of Alpha-Four and lead the squad until his death during the Battle of San Andreas in 2558.

Early Years
Born in on the colony of, Richard Bradley was born as a military brat. While he usually moved around the planet, he permanently moved in with his mother as his parents were divorced.

High School
While in High School, Rick accidentally got his girlfriend, Susan, pregnant. After they finished high school, their daughter, Ellen, was born. While Susan finished school, Rick trained himself to enlist with the UNSC and take care of his daughter.

Enlistment
In 2523, a year after Ellen was born, Susan and Rick got married and both withdrew from school to raise Ellen. However, Rick enlisted with the UNSC to earn some money outside of his mother's auto-shop. Rick finished training and was deployed in late 2523.

Mission to Tri-Glav
Bradley was apart of a squad of ODSTs sent to arrest an Insurrectionist leader while sneaking aboard a supply ship to enter the station of Tri-Glav. Once inside the station, the team moved throughout the area and took out guard after guard. Eventually, the team reached the main control center and opened fire.

The room's guards were captured by the leader was still alive and had a bomb strapped to him. Unable to fire or get near him due to the threat of detention, Rick secretly left the room and moved into the ventilation shafts of the station. He moved into the room, behind the leader and sightly opened the vent and snuck down into the room. As the leader realized one was missing, Rick covered his mouth and cut the detonator loose, stopping the bomb.

He stabbed the leader's wrist and threw him over his shoulder and knocked him out. The leader was arrested and Rick was commemorated for his efforts.

Human-Covenant War
"Welcome to the forefront of the war face."

- Rick greeting new soldiers. Rick was assigned as part of the squad Alpha-2 for a small time. He was placed under the command of Captain Kim and joined by Maxwell Drake, a Sergeant Major at the time. The three man team were sent on numerous deployments of the early Covenant War.

Battle of New Sweden
Deployed to the colony world of New Sweden, the squad was sent in to assist with civilian evacuations from New Gothenburg. The three dropped into combat and began to escort civilians towards a SinoViet tower for an evac crew to pick them up. While moving through, the team encountered several Covenant patrols and armament stationed, mainly wraiths and some ghosts. After pushing through the Covenant lines, the escorted civilians were able to escape while the ODSTs held the area.

Once reinforcements arrived, the three were tasked with defending an evac center from Covenant ground forces. While the evacuation went under way, and ships were able to escape, the front lines seemed trivial. However, as the last few evac shuttles took off, Covenant corvettes fired upon them, forcing the last ships to crash. One was close enough for Rick to run to and try to help, but due to the weight, the ship sunk into the water, bringing all who couldn't escape.

Rick and the rest of Alpha-2 were sent into the city to regain control of a defense bunker. Moving across the shores, the team reached the bunker and joined local UNSC attacking forces. The team was able to break through and reestablish the AA guns located there and brought down the floating ships.

Later, the team was confirmed to be in Gotland, New Sweden to join in an attack force located their against a Covenant spire. The operation was later confirmed to have failed due to overwhelming Covenant forces.

The planet was later loss to the Covenant and all remaining UNSC personnel evacuated.

New Changes
During a leave in 2531, Rick got Susan pregnant with their second child. After requesting an extended leave from then Lieutenant Albert Söze, Rick was able to witness the birth and first two months with his second daughter, Angelica. Rick was also reassigned from Alpha-2 to command a black-ops unit called Alpha-4 with other ODSTs.

Battle of Elysium
Alpha-4 was deployed to the initial LZ of the Covenant in downtown Rook City to drop in and capture a nearby military compound. When the team landed, Rick, Zoe, and Sis went to the armory of the facility while Sam, Hugh and Pillar were sent to the main control station in order to download necessary mapping data on the planet.

While Rick and his squad fought into the armory, the group collected some Covenant technology and weaponry. Sam and his team then made it to the main control center and began the download while the armory was rescued and the area fortified. Rick, Sis and Zoe then found an Elephant along with two Warthogs. After the download, the rest of the team reunited with Rick and his squad and mounted up. Rick and Sam took one hog, while Sis and Pillar took the other leaving Zoe and Hugh to the elephant. The team made their way to a local highway and drove through the ruins of Rook City encountering minor Covenant resistance along the way. The elephant proved to be an excellent shield and provided the team much needed cover. The team made their way to the Western Airport for a pickup via pelican drop ship. While the team held off Covenant, the LZ was moved further down the sector and deeper into Covenant control territory. The team then fled to a nearby subway system.

Once inside the system, the team captured a small Covenant LZ and waited for an inbound phantom. Once the phantom landed, Rick, Pillar and Hugh made their way to the ship and captured it. Once captured, Hugh and Pillar returned to pickup the rest of Alpha-4 while Rick piloted a Banshee to escort the phantom through the tunnels. After clearing out several Covenant inside the tunnels, the team encountered and destroyed a scarab blocking their escape. The team escaped the city with the data and returned to a nearby UNSC airstrip but were shot down due to the heavy Covenant invasion there. The team then hiked the rest of the way to the base and gave command the data.

Operation: Ground Pound
After the necessary data was collected and the military base secured by Alpha-4, the team along with several other UNSC squads and attack teams deployed into the city to retake it from the Covenant forces. Alpha-4 was sent in along with Alpha-2 and Delta-1 to retake the local park and boardwalk along with it. Rick, Sis and Pillar led a charge into the area with Delta-1 while Sam, Hugh and Zoe stayed with Alpha-2 to give covering fire.