>>719811842
>your main character is some guy called "Chief"
It's the highest enlisted rank of the UNSC's marine space division. Johnson is sergeant major, the highest enlisted rank of the ground division. I'm not really sure what the big difference is between the two when both MC and Johnson are deployed and exercise authority interchangably, and I can be Bungie probably didn't know or care either. Spartans were always made as NCOs because the marines treated them as disposable "fuck shit up" weapons to tactically deploy and not to ask questions about what they were doing, which was a natural transition from them originally being used to quell human uprisings on the fringe worlds. Still once spartans are on the ground, they give the orders and decide how shit gets done, and any competent officers know to shut the fuck up. That's one thing Bungie got right with Hood and Keyes, and 343 fucks it up every chance they get, probably intentionally to force drama.