Special Warfare Group Three

was a secretive element of Special Warfare Command, being envisioned initially by then Lieutenant Colonel Holland who had been assigned to Special Warfare Group Seven. While the Navy's small element of IIs were incredibly efficient in clandestine and special forces operations, they were lacking a efficient capacity for combined arms warfare. Though he initially petitioned to HIGHCOM for the creation of Special Warfare Group Three, he found no officers willing to support his plans. However, a chance meeting with Kurt Ambrose, formerly a SpecWar 7 operative and now SpecWar 9 commander lead to Kurt siphoning SPARTAN personnel to Holland as well as alerting him to operatives out in field operations. Pulling every string he had, he managed to gather a number of SPARTAN-III and MJOLNIR and with a rag tag collection of teams. Using a mixture of daring, cunning and combined arms operations with Army Special Forces assets, he pulled off a number of successes, allowing him to expand upon the unit greatly, allowing him to gain a maximum of five teams, plus two smaller units from Beta-5 attached as Asymmetric test units and observers. However, after the fall of Reach Noble and Gauntlet teams were knocked out of action, with Echo team temporarily replenishing from the uninjured survivors and Royal Team being knocked out of action later that year. SWG 3 survived to expand in later years, though was eventually merged with Special Warfare Group 13.