Arnie Matterson

Private 1st. Class Arnie 'Hooch' Matterson was born on Io, a moon of Jupiter. Hooch is a background character in Red Letter Days who fights alongside PFC. Leonard Schaeffer on Second Base where his best friend, Lance Corporal Wilson Blater would be badly injured and pinned by a flipped warthog. With the help of Schaeffer, he was able to free his friend and send him off to get medical help.

Early History
Hooch grew up in Aurora Station, the capital of Io. Hooch's family had a long history of rebellious and insurrectionist activity that can be traced back to the very first Jovian Moons campaign. His parents were both very abusive, his father especially; in fits of rage, his father would decide to take his anger out on his son and beat him to a pulp almost daily.

When he turned 16, he couldn't take it anymore and ran away from home to the residence of a good friend of his. His friends family, having known him for years as well as knowing about the abusive activity at his home; encouraged him to file a law suit against his former family in return for being able to have custody moved over to his friends father who had always been a role model to him.

The case was won, and Hooch was raised by his adoptive father for another year in a half. His adoptive father was a former sailor and inspired Hooch to enlist at age 17, which his father signed off on. Within four years after boot-camp, Hooch was already an ensign; something almost unheard of for a young sailor with nearly no prior experience.

However, the naval life was not for him and he soon requested transfer to the Marine Corps beginning from E-1.

Operation TREBUCHET
Hooch graduated boot with flying colors and was transferred to a large unit performing counter-insurgency operations on the planet of Paris-IV, however Hooch joined too late and the unit was transferred to Second Base almost immediately.

Hooch performed well as a marine but was never in an important enough position to be noticed for anything. He did however become best friends with his fireteam leader, Lance Corporal Wilson Blater.

During movement to the site of a bombing at Garmed City Bank, Blater was injured and pinned under a flipped warthog in an ambush. Hooch could not get him out alone, and with the help of fellow marines PFC. Leonard Schaeffer and PFC. Louie Riley, he was able to get him out from under the wreck.

Blater was sent to Red Letter Days/Garmed Medical Center, the last time Hooch would see him before the Covenant invasion.