Ellison Suarez, known to those under her command as 'Ell', was a SPARTAN-I NavSpecWar Operator and and a former member of the UNSC Air Force's Pararescue Unit, who took part in both the war against the Insurrectionists and The Human-Covenant War. Ell was born into a lower-middle class Military family in the suburbs of Chicago on Earth. Both her mother and father had served, her mother was a CMA Naval Officer while her father was a UNSC Marine who had served on various warships during the early-to-mid 2400s. Throughout her childhood and teenage years, Ellison harboured a deep sense of obligation to serve within the UNSC and was supported in this endeavour by her parents who tried to influence her to avoid naval service within the Colonial Military Administration. Immediately upon the comple