Sergeant Joseph M. Poteet (SecNet username: TRIGTECH) was a soldier in the UNSC. He serviced Warthogs on Reach. Sometime after the Fall of Reach, the Office of Naval Intelligence launched an investigation of a SecNet message exchange between Poteet and Sergeant Alasdair R. Schicker to determine whether he had inadvertently leaked classified information, including the location of Reach, to the Covenant.