Urban Holland (Earth-5875)

"ONI thinks it might be the local Insurrectionists. Five months ago, they pulled a similar job on New Harmony-hit a relay to take out our eyes and ears, then stole two freighters from drydock. That cannot happen here. Reach is too damn important. I want that relay back online, Noble One"

- - Colonel Urban Holland to Commander Carter-A259

Colonel Urban Holland, also known as Noble Actual, was a field grade officer of the UNSC Marine Corps stationed at Reach during the First Contact War. He was the commander of the Marine Corps' Special Warfare Group Three, and exherted control over Noble Team during the Fall of Reach.

Surveys
In June 2552, Colonel Urban Holland conducted a psychological and physical evaluation of each member of Noble Team. As the commanding officer of the Special Warfare Group Three, Holland believed that Noble Team should be comprised of commissioned SPARTAN officers in order to grant them near-total authority to alter mission parameters as they willed.

Fall of Reach
"The Office of Naval Intelligence believes deployment of a SPARTAN team is a gross misallocation of valuable resources... I disagree."

- - Colonel Urban Holland to Commander Carter-A259

Holland was stationed on Reach during the Fall of Reach, where he had Noble Team initially investigate a communications disruption at the Visegrád Relay, on Visegrád, believing it to be an Insurrectionist activity. However, Holland and Noble soon learned that the relay had been taken out by a Covenant advance unit. He later ordered Noble Team to defend the Office of Naval Intelligence's Sword Base from a Covenant attack. At the Battle of the Szurdok Ridge, Holland ordered Noble Team to take out the scattered Type-38 Tyrant anti-air turrets at the Szurdok Ridge to clear the way for the UNSC Grafton to destroy Spire One.