[quote=Revans Exile]
So the ODSTs would have failed without them.As for your link, nothing is mentioned about ODSTs, Prowlers, or the male Captain Keyes involved in the Battle of Rubble. So your source sucks or you failed to accurately cite your source. Either way you failed.
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I was too lazy to wiki-walk you through it all.

Divisive mandate > link: Battle of the Rubble > Link:concurrent battle: Metissette > Link: Preceeding incidents: Battle of Cherybdis IX > Link: Concurrent: Scyllion Warehouse District Riot

Battle of Metissette > Link: Proceeding battle: 18 Scorpii

Note, 3 Spartans were at Rubble, 2 at Metissette, [u]all were declared MIA afterwards[/u]. Making them the only team of Spartan IIs never to upgrade past Mark IV.
-90% of the time they were just protecting [i]one[/I] guy (because the rampant AI told them to), and it wasn't Keyes. And he still dies.
[url=http://halo.wikia.com/wiki/Eddie%27s_In_The_Rock]And they seriously were just chilling in a bar at the time.[/url]