SPARTAN-091

Early Life
SPARTAN-091, Jared, was born on Earth 20 years before the Covenant invasion. He was recruited into the SPARTAN-II program at the age of six, one of the second class of trainees. During his training, it became apparent to his instructors that he was a natural at long-range weapons. When he was tested, he scored above all other previous records for target-shooting in the United Nations Space Command. Jared was quickly transferred to a sniper school on Reach, and became proficent with every scoped weapon in the UNSC arsenal. It was at this school that he was paired with MIL AI 8011 (Juliet), a fourth-generation super AI, who was implanted into his newly-upgraded Neural Link. They became friends, and Jared began to rely on Juliet to watch his back and point out targets that he missed on the battlefield.

Teenage Years
At fourteen, Jared was given the standard SPARTAN-II biological upgrades. He survived the operations and mourned the loss of the others in his class who were not so fortunate. Later, Jared was given a suit of MJOLLNIR Mark-V armor as his own, and was assigned to Gray Team, a group of SPARTANs that included SPARTAN-014, Adrian, one of his early friends. On its inuagural mission, Gray Team was sent to neutralize a rebel insurgent base that had been a thorn in ONI's side for a long time. They easily succeeded, wiping out all terrorist resistance there, and capturing a prototype-weapons cache that had been stolen from Reach by black-market gun-runners.