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{{Writer|Stel' Vadam}}
{{Era|Stel}}
{{Unit
|name= Task Force 343
|image=[[File:Thanixlogo.png|250px|]]
|role= Black Ops
|garrison= Unknown
|motto= "If you are going through hell-keep going."
|size= Unknown, likely large
|commander= *[[Stel 'Vadam]] (Sangheili General/Commando)
*[[Doug-103]] (Chief Petty Officer)
|subs=
|status= Active
}}
'''Task Force 343''', also abbreviated as '''TF343''', is a cross-species Task Force group led by [[Stel 'Vadam]] and [[Doug-103]]. It was formed soon after the [[Battle for Doisac]]. Often also called the '''Three-Four-Three''', Task Force 343 was also made to combat the remains of Covenant Loyalists, and to deal with the new threat of the Flood, and a new loyalist enemy: the [[Karidan]]s.

==Origins==
Task Force 343, though often thought to be led by [[Stel 'Vadam]] and [[Doug-103]], TF343 was actually formed by a Fleetmaster named [[Xavi 'Vadam]], a close friend to Thel 'Vadam and was ordered by him to create the Task Force in order to scape around the universe (or ''The 'Verse'' as [[Doug-103]] shortens it) to exterminate the Flood and deal with the new enemy, the Karidans.

===First Mission===
<small> ''Rest is to be revealed as [[Halo: Covert Ops]] progresses''</small> 

Task Force 343 was orginally supposed to be made up of volunteers to be deployed as Black Ops unit, however, under Stel's request, the Task Force was changed as such to a Covert Ops unit: with a small privelage: being able to handpick the best warriors around the galaxy. Their first mission was to track down [[Rit-E-Ayr]], a Kig-yar merchant and pirate who supplied the Karidan forces with weapons to massacre a city on Reach, named [[Terrador]]. Stel and Doug sent the troops to Eayn, the Kig-yar homeworld, in order to find him, interrogate him, and then exfil from the area. Unfortunatley, Xavi's communicator was shortened out by a Kig-yar ship, leaving Stel and his men behind.

==Known members==
*[[Xavi 'Vadam]]
*[[Stel 'Vadam]]
*[[Doug-103]]
*Former members of [[Fireteam Foxtrot]] (they are below)
*[[Delmond Conagher]]
*[[Ivan Reznov]]
*[[Holz Richtofen]]
*[[Scott Baker]]
*[[John Doe]]
*[[David Huntsman]] (FT Foxtrot list ends here)
*[[Sam-126]] (recovered during a raid on  a Vitorn prison, one of the Karidans' colonies.)
*[[Falcon Team]]
*[[Jun-A266 (AAO)|Jun-A266]]

==Former Members==
*[[User:Ebon Shadowshot/Ral 'Daman|Ral 'Daman]] (defected in 2571, died in 2572)
*[[Ehru 'Mantakr]] (died 2571)
*[[User:Ebon Shadowshot/Rola 'Vadam|Rola 'Vadam]] (died 2587)
*[[Thel 'Vadam]] (seperated in 2559)

==Trivia==
*TF343 was based off a [http://steamcommunity.com/groups/nopeavi Steam group].