if you are refering to the keyes loop well that wasnt his first battle with the covenant and also the halo film will portray the UNSC vs the Covies on halo

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"You were dead, I saw you die. On Jenkins mission record. The flood got you."
"The flood? Hell, Chief, It'll take more than a pack of walking alien horror-show freaks to take out Sergeant A. J. Johnson."