User blog comment:TheMegaShyGuy/Halo 4 RvB Easter Eggs/@comment-4519149-20121016024429/@comment-75.39.234.6-20130223195443

@Western Gen: You're right about the armor, however the ODST also have fully encapsulated armor suits (except in Halo 3: ODST, and even then it was just their fingers that were exposed) so it is POSSIBLE to explain it away as a similar type of armor suit. They are "simulation" troopers for Project Freelancer, albeit incompetant to an extreme, and so it is possible the Freelancers would give their sim troopers armor like that to make them more capable. If you've seen RvB: Revelations, you know not ALL of the teams in the project are as incompetent as the two famous teams. Just something to consider.