Lieutenant Amanda-208 (full name Amanda Carinae Burchard) is a SPARTAN-II Commando of the UNSC Naval Special Warfare Command, a Junior Officer of the UNSC Navy and an operative of Section One, Office of Naval Intelligence. Though among one of the four unlucky candidates of the second class to be crippled to varying degrees by the augmentation procedures (elephantiasis in the legs in her case), Amanda was eventually freed from her condition by amputating the infected legs and replacing them with Thermopylae-grade prosthetics and assigned as a field operative of Section One, carrying out a fair amount of intelligence, reconnaissance and direct action operations on a number of fronts, including Ballast, Draco III and Earth. Following the end of the war, she was permitted to accompany Laszlo-1