Private Halford

Private  is a New California Republic soldier stationed in the Mojave Wasteland in 2281. He can be found injured in Camp Guardian Caves.

Interactions with the player character
When you meet him, he is injured. Use a doctor's bag to heal him or pass a medicine skill check of 50. After that, he will want to get out off the cave. If you pass a speech check of 50 he will join you as a temporary companion. You can either get him out the cave immediately or clear out all Lakelurks in the cave.

Upon dying or clearing out the Lakelurks in the cave, he drops Halford's Note, which contains a crafting recipe for the Dog Tag Fist weapon.

Bugs

 * He is a temporary companion, he would normally only follow you until you are out of the cave, but you can have him as a semi-permanent companion. You can use the skill of Speech to have him follow you until he dies as you can't use stimpaks on him, and he will eventually die even in normal mode as he isn't a permanent Companion.


 * Halford has a dialog loop glitch. You receive one Service Rifle (full condition), 32 5.56mm Rounds, and 15 5.56mm Armor Piercing Rounds each time you ask for his rifle. With patience it is possible to gain thousands of rounds and hundreds of rifles. There is a crate nearby to store the rifles for sale later making you rich.


 * If you tell him the way back is cleared, instead of running back up the cleared way, he will instead run further into the cavern. Also if you pass the speech check and have him follow you, he will change his mind if you walk up to an exit and tell you he's off to California, and again he will run off further into the caverns, and you might find him dead somewhere inside. (PC,360) (This is because deep within the cavern is an exit, in which you'll have to swim into heading back outside. The bug is that he prefers this exit instead of closer exits.)


 * If the player completely clears the cave before talking to Halford - or talks to him but doesn't heal his legs before finishing his quest - he will continue on to his "thank you" message, give you your reward, and claim to be on his way back to the NCR. Of course, he doesn't actually go anywhere, as his legs are still - and, now, permanently - broken.  However, as you've received your reward, there's little functional difference in the questline.


 * If you swim out of the cave he may disappear from the game and will be unable to receive the Dogtag Fist weapon crafting recipe.


 * Entering the cave via the entrance by the mountaintop camp may result in the Lakelurks coming up and killing Halford in the process (360).

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.