Tyler-A319

"Go to hell"

- Tyler after killing a in hand-to-hand combat in the Second Battle of Deston.

 Tyler-A139, born Tyler Raymond, is a of the. He is specialized in Reconnaissance, sniping and hand-to-hand combat. He is the leader of Gauntlet Team, an elite team of SPARTAN-IIIs and one SPARTAN-II that is known to have fought in many battles since. His callsign is Gauntlet One.

Early childhood and Spartan-III training
"There really are some impressive Spartans in Alpha Company. Tyler and Clyde are two of them"

- addressing Tyler and Clyde.

Tyler was born on November 11, 2520 on the planet of Deston. He was born to parents Nicholas and Sarah Raymond. His father was a Sergeant, so he rarely ever saw him. As a child, he had brown, straight hair and black eyes. Since he was a child, he had superior aiming abilities, as demonstrated while playing games like paintball or shoot the rock. When the attacked Deston in 2530, his father was killed in action and his mother was stabbed by a  wielding an. However, when his mother was killed, he took the fallen M40 Pistol of his deceased father, and executed the Jackal with a single shot to the head. Although the Covenant were unsuccessful in taking over Deston, Tyler had lost both of his parents, making him an orphan. However, in 2531, he was picked up by LCDR Kurt Ambrose and  to be enlisted in  of the.

Tyler was trained with other trainees of Alpha Company on the planet of. He had shown expert marksman and leadership abilities, as well as in reconnaissance and hand-to-hand combat. His first mission was in 2536, on the planet of, where some Covenant activity was detected in a forest. Tyler was assigned as leader of Squad Alpha-One, along with some other Spartan-IIIs, including Clyde-A307. The mission was successful, with a Covenant base found and destroyed and a Covenant gun, the. This mission proved that Tyler was indeed a great leader and that his team was the best weapon he got.

"Tyler, Clyde, Carter, Jun, all of 'em. They're special guys. We can't send them into suicide missions. We need them to fight alongside the S-IIs"

- SCPO Franklin Mendez talking to LCDR Kurt Ambrose

Tyler continued participating in other missions, finally earning the rank of. He then was pulled out of Alpha Company, along with many others like Clyde-A307, John-A222, Varun-A077,, ,  and many others. All of them were considered as "cat 2s", a name given by LCDR Kurt Ambrose to those S-IIIs who were on par with the S-IIs. They were formed into different teams, with the S-II Carris-137 being in Tyler's team, now termed as Gauntlet Team. After, all the Cat 2 members were given.