Attack of Niu Aljazayir

History
On the 10th of March 2535, the colony world of Niu Aljazayir, was attacked by Covenant. This started a large ground and naval battle between the JoFF fleet who happened to be undergoing a restock of food and water for the next few months. This was the first time that the AFISA's secret weapons were used truly used on the ground in a true battle rather than behind the scenes infiltration or some security detail.

With the arrival of the Covenant fleet, an Air Force Corvette, called the UNSC Resolution, to call for reinforcements as the rest of the JoFF fought tooth and nail against the Covenant with the entire Fleet under the command of the Lieutenant General Somerville of the Army Naval Task Force (ANTF), of the UNSC Hood, with the Air Force and Marines under the secondary command of Major Generals Hammond (UNSC Ark Royal) and Pound (UNSC Valiant) respectively.

With the UNSC fleet retreating back to the to the planet, the Covenant forces began the process of landing and invading the surface of the planet, targeting population centres like Berber, Carthage and New Constantine. In response the Army, Air Force and Marines deployed their troops on the surface, including the Army Bulwark Squadron (ABS), the Marine Insertion Corps (MIC) and the Special Air Regiment. These three special forces were each deployed to one of the aforementioned population centres to conduct the 3X technique or Explore (scout the area, create plan), Extract (remove all civilian and wounded personnel off site) and Exterminate (kill everything that is not human).

With the Apache soldiers on the ground, it could be seen straight away that the advanced soldiers where easily out matching their regular counterparts, with a success rate that tripled that of both the ABS and the MIC troops in land control, enemy combatants killed, and points of conflict captured. But even with the success on the ground, the UNSC was still losing above the planet.

Within two weeks of the start of the battle, the covenant had lost ten percent of their fleet, and the UNSC had lost fifty per cent (Including SMAC stations), though a large proportion of the planets population managed to get evacuated and the population centres under lock down by SAR, ABS and MIC troops, nothing would matter if they didn't get rid of the large fleet of Covenant ships in orbit. But ten days earlier, the UNSC Resolution arrived at the AFISA station Hammerbrook, where a small platoon of SAR Apache soldier where stationed to guard the Flensburger Missile Range.