Brown Team was a team of five SPARTAN-II recruits in-training. Its members numbered among the program's most independently thinking and individualistic recruits, but despite this remained loyal to the UNSC and never tried to rebel against the program. The team was inactivated after the SPARTAN-II Augmentation Procedure, with three (Riker, Laszlo and Leonid) being secretly stolen away by cabals within the Office of Naval Intelligence and one (Maria) being mildly wounded and retired as part of ONI experiments. The last member, Randall, defected later in 2531 and joined the United Rebel Front.