Michael Walter Heyman

"He always sounds like a scared civvi who's forced to talk at gun-point. Plus he's clumsier than a rhino with slippery feet. But I can't deny that he's an excellent soldier too. Two Purple Hearts and one Bronze Star by his age? That's damn good."

- Major Dexter Parker about Michael Walter Heyman "The Squirt".

Michael Walter Heyman, usually simply called Michael and nicknamed Squirt by his fellow ODSTs, was a member of the UNSC Marine Corps and later the Orbital Drop Shock Troopers (ODSTs), attached to the second echelon of UNSC SOCOM. He was known among his fellow ODSTs for his polite, enthusiastic, if somewhat dim-witted, nervous and clumsy behavior, fitting the bill of a stereotyped "green as grass" rookie. However, he was also recognized as a highly skilled soldier and a valuable part of the new-generation Alpha Company, 19th Shock Troops Battalion.

Trivia

 * All three of the character's names are tributes to Red vs. Blue; Michael is the first name of Caboose, the dumbest character in the entire series; Walter is a reference to a very minor character, Private Walter Henderson, who appeared in only one chapter in the Red vs. Blue Reconstruction season; and Heyman is the last name of Caboose's voice actor.
 * Although the names are tributes to Red vs. Blue characters, the character's personality is based on Benjamin Carmine, a character in Gears of War 2.