#michael stanforth

[halobirthdays]

Happy birthday to Vice Admiral Hieronymus "Harold" Michael Stanforth!

Today is his -462nd birthday!

During the inception of the SPARTAN-II program, Stanforth was the head of ONI Section 3, having hand-picked Halsey a few years prior. For this reason, he would continuously shield her during the program's unfolding. When the Covenant attacked, Stanforth took over the Spartan field operations, accelerating their training to prepare them for the new threat.

By 2530, he resigned as section chief to participate more closely in humanity's colony defenses. He enjoyed a friendship with Preston Cole--whom he had warned about his impending court martial three decades earlier--and was therefore one of the first people who received the recommendations that would become the Cole Protocol.

Stanforth lead the UNSC through the battle of Sigma Octanus IV, giving humanity a rare victory. However, the Covenant would find the location of Reach during the battle, forcing Stanforth to pursue them there. He would participate in Reach's defenses, ordering Operation: RED FLAG, a last-ditch effort to curb the Covenant invasion. He would hold the line at Reach, though he would eventually perish after his ship was destroyed.

A sidebar about this guy's messy lore:

His name is what?

Evidentially no one could agree on a name or birth date for him, which appear differently throughout the extended universe and lead to incongruous results (such as becoming a full admiral by age 17 and getting demoted four grades with no obvious reason).

In a classic Bungie/343i move, they chose to harmonize these details rather than pick one, so now "Harold" is a nickname for Hieronymus, which is the first name of a guy almost exclusively referred to as Michael.

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My grip on Keyes' timeline is a little rough because I haven't looked back over it in a while.

(Also, forgot to say: The carrier didn't really give a shit about whatever was going on because it was busy trying to go drop its invasion force.)

In this specific bit it's Admiral Stanforth calling him Schoolmaster.

Actually you know what, here:

I pasted it out of this epub file I have. (if anything's weird, sorry, I didn't proofread that hard.)

As for where he taught: He got injured early in his career and taught at the Luna OCS. By this point in the war he really had been on ships again for quite a while but like, it stuck.

I'm in the diary again for reasons, don't worry about it.

Halsey and Keyes. ;;

One of the inserts we got in the diary is a folded up cafe placemat where Keyes actually drew out the maneuver on the back.

Halsey kept it.

Also bonus, hanging out with John a little.

[leanuponmybar]

StEx Appreciation Month Day 17: Caboose

Favorite song:There’s Me, it’s just so adorable and the message is cute and omgggg I wanna give Dinah a hug w/CB

Favorite actor:Daniel Ellison hands down. Much respect to Michael Stanforth to being the OG

Favorite ship:platonically CB/Dinah, Rock n Roll Bros(GB.CB, and Electra), and CB/Rusty

Favorite thing about him:his personality. Let me explain, I love that he’s soft with some people(ie Dinah) and can make a switch to crazy and psychotic on a dime

Random headcanon:him and the rock n roll bro’s share one brain cell and the rest of the freight boys and the coach girls and trying to help him

Unpopular opinion: I dont exactly like the “gore cutesy cb the fandom has for him. A lot so people go a bit overboard on the gore part and gore is nsfw and the it can get about crazy idk why....(don’t hate meeeee)

[newsfact]

Top sheriff asks Garland to rescind ‘troubling’ school board memo: ‘Sheriffs have always enforced these laws’

FIRST ON FOX: One top sheriff is criticizing Attorney General Merrick Garland’s controversial memo to the FBI to look into instances of “intimidation” and “harassment” by parents at school board meetings, saying it caused more problems than it solved and usurped the job of local law enforcement to protect free speech and enforce laws prohibiting violence.

Earlier this month, Garland issued a memo directing the FBI and U.S. attorney’s offices to investigate “threats of violence” at school board meetings in order to combat what the Department of Justice (DOJ) called a “disturbing trend” of harassment and threats against school officials  by angry parents.

BIDEN’S ‘POLITICIZATION’ OF DOJ CONTINUES WITH NEW EFFORT TO COMBAT THREATS AGAINST SCHOOL BOARDS, CRITICS SAY

Local law enforcement sources have told Fox News that DOJ’s directive is an act of massive federal overreach, which is turning a local “non-issue” into a national issue.

Attorney General Merrick Garland is sworn in during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Tom Brenner/Pool via AP) (Tom Brenner/Pool via AP)

National Sheriffs’ Association President, Fayette County, Ohio, Sheriff Vernon Stanforth told Fox News that Garland’s memo should be rescinded.

“Unfortunately, this memo has caused more derision than solved problems, and failed to acknowledge that state and local law enforcement is committed to safe and protected free speech,” Stanforth told Fox News exclusively. 

“Anyone that threatens or seeks to harm a local official is likely to be violating any number of state laws. Sheriffs have always enforced these laws and will continue to do so. When, or if, we need federal resources we ask for assistance. With that, we respectfully ask for the AG to rescind this troubling memo.”

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appears before the House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on October 21. (Michael Reynolds/Pool via REUTERS)

TOM COTTON TO AG GARLAND: ‘THANK GOD YOU ARE NOT ON THE SUPREME COURT’

The attorney general received massive backlash for his directive because it came just days after the National School Board Association (NSBA) wrote a letter to Biden asking his administration to treat parent protests at school board meetings as possible acts of “domestic terrorism.” The association has since withdrawn its letter and apologized for the strong anti-parent rhetoric.

However, despite the NSBA’s rescission, Garland defended the department’s controversial memo amid intense questioning from Republican and Democratic senators Wednesday during a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing. 

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., questions Attorney General Merrick Garland during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the Department of Justice on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2021. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP) (Tasos Katopodis/Pool via AP)

Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., tore into Garland during the hearing, calling the attorney general’s directive to the FBI “shameful” and demanding that he resign from his position as the top law enforcement officer in the country.

“That letter and those reports were the basis for your directive. This is shameful. Judge, this is shameful. This testimony, your directive, your performance is shameful. Thank God you are not on the Supreme Court. You should resign in disgrace, judge,” said Cotton.

The senator referred to Garland’s nomination to the Supreme Court by former President Obama in 2016 following the death of Justice Antonin Scalia. 

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Garland insisted in response to Cotton that the reports cited by the NSBA in its letter were not the news reports that influenced him in issuing his directive. 

Fox News’ Ronn Blitzer contributed to this report.

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This is an illustration of Fleetmaster Rho 'Barutamee and Vice Admiral Michael Stanforth for the table top game, Halo: Fleet Battles, The Fall of Reach. There are 2 cards in the box for your commanders, which also had busts made: https://dropshipstudio.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/halo-cov-01.jpg