: Andrew Del Rio needs to get airlocked...

I think he's one of the more enjoyable characters we've been introduced to. Of course he's a bit of a jerk and someone you love to hate, but looking at it from his perspective, it's not hard to see the Chief has wrong—he did disobey orders, protect an AI that was clearly rampant, and bug off.

Based on the stuff we see in Halo 4 and the preface in The Thursday War, I think Del Rio is an interesting and really unseen character in Halo—a career guy who's not always competent. In other words, just like a lot of people out there. He's got legitimate beef with Chief, because unlike the players he isn't experiencing the world through Chief's eyes. But it's also colored by his own nagging doubts about his abilities. So he projects them onto other people, and ends up weakening his command further. The way they play the "give me that chip" scene at the end of Reclaimer makes him feel like he is incredibly insecure about his command and as soon as someone confronts it he loses perspective.

Doesn't mean he isn't a dick, but I think he's a refreshing character in a world where it's usually hyper-competent, lay-down-their-lives soldiers or evil scheming ONI chaps.