The first recombinant-unit, which consisted of a dozen "resurrected" SecOps soldiers who died in the Battle of Tree of Souls (including Miles Quaritch and Lyle Wainfleet) arrived on Pandora a year after RDA re-established their presence on the moon with their new headquarters at Bridgehead-city. The team was tasked by General Frances Admore, the new head of RDA-operations, to hunt down Jake Sully and his allies who were attacking RDA-transports. Since the recoms were Na'vi, the could operate in the terrain of Pandora much better than humans soldiers, and were not seen as foreign by the fauna
Colonel Quaritch and Wainfleet led their troops the floating Hallelujah Mountain of Pandora, were Sully was speculated to have been hiding with his allies. On the way they found the old remain of human-Quaritch, the team learning that he had died at the hands of a Na'vi. The team would then come across several young Na'vi, who happened to be the children of Jake Sully (Lo'ak, Tuk and Kiri) as well as a teenaged human boy named Spider. The soldiers took the children as hostages, hoping to lure Sully out, but they underestimated Sully and his mate Neytiri, who ambushed the team during the night
The recombinants lost Warren, Sean Fike, Walker, Brown and Zhang in this ambush and Sully managed to save all of his children. Still, Quaritch managed to capture Spider and bring him back to Bridgehead-city
