TF141 - Post Op Stress (PTSD)

Ghost: Following Makarov's massacre at Zakhaev International Airport, Ghost assisted in the operation in Rio de Janeiro to locate and capture Alejandro Rojas, the man who supplied Makarov with weapons and ammunition, maintaining radio contact with Captain MacTavish and Roach while they searched for Rojas' assistant. After MacTavish and Roach began pursuing the assistant, Ghost met up with them at the Hotel Rio and joined the chase. Once the assistant was taken down by Roach, Ghost prepared to interrogate him through torture. Ghost was heard via radio for the rest of the mission as he attempted to pursue Rojas through the favela. After the capture of Rojas, Ghost was heard requesting extraction from Command, but to no avail.

Soap: Not much is known about Soap's early life except he was born Roman Catholic. He is from Scotland, which is evident by the Scottish flag seen on his dog tags, along with his Scottish accent.

Military career

Soap served with the 3rd Battalion, Parachute Regiment prior to joining the SAS, with at least one tour in Northern Ireland.[1]

SAS career

"The F.N.G."

Soap begins his S.A.S. career hours during the Second Russian Civil War. Initially, Soap starts out as a Sergeant. Whilst in the S.A.S.'s training camp in Credenhill, U.K., Soap received a quick training session in weapons and techniques by a fellow S.A.S. member Gaz, before being introduced to Captain John Price and the rest of Bravo Team. After passing the C.Q.B test, Soap is briefed on the mission to infiltrate and assault a cargo ship in the Bering Strait. On board the ship, they discover a nuclear bomb, though enemy MiGs interrupt them. In the process of escaping, Soap was forced to leap for the ramp of the team's helicopter, just as it was beginning to fly away. He lost his grip; however, mere seconds before he was bound to fall off the vehicle, Soap was rescued by Captain Price.

Rescue of Nikolai

Upon completing the mission, 'Soap', Price and Gaz travel to Russia to extract the informant who supplied them with the intelligence for the cargo ship, a man codenamed "Nikolai". Working close with Russian government, Loyalists led by Sergeant Kamarov. They successfully locate and extract Nikolai from the battle zone, though their helicopter is shot down by an Ultranationalist missile. 141, Nikolai and the rest fight, before being provided with support from an AC-130, call-signed "Wildfire." They are extracted by helicopters under cover of heavy air support from Wildfire.

The Search for Al-Asad

Soap's next mission with Bravo Team would take him to Azerbaijan, clearing through an abandoned village in search of Khaled Al-Asad. Upon locating him, Soap witnessed Al-Asad's interrogation and execution at the hands of Captain Price, learning that Imran Zakhaev had been Al-Asad's weapons supplier.[4] The next day, it appears Soap was designated the team's support man, being equipped with both an M249 and M21 sniper rifle. He was placed in charge of covering the team's retreat with the Minigun from a downed Black Hawk (destroying several Ultranationalist Helicopters in the process) and detonating the explosive charges placed at Phase Line Bravo. Afterwards, he was the point man when the squad had to backtrack to the lower part of the village due to heavy coverage of Anti Aircraft weapons in the vicinity. Following this, Soap and the rest of Bravo Team were extracted by US Marines led by Ssgt Griggs.

MacTavish's final mission in the Russian civil war saw him infiltrating Russia as part of the joint task force of USMC and SAS in order to eliminate Imran Zakhaev's nukes. After grouping with US forces, Soap and his allies proceeded to enter an outpost and secure it, as part of plan to capture Zakhaev's son. After a little, a convoy arrives in the outpost, led by Victor. Bravo Team, disguised as Russian guards, allow him to enter the facility, though quickly reveal themselves and fight. During the battle that followed, Soap and Griggs provided sniper support for the rest of the team from a high tower. However, Victor rammed his jeep into one of the legs of the tower, breaking it, providing and escape. Soap wasn’t able to stop Victor. After chasing him, Soap and the rest of the team corner Victor. Unwilling to betray his father's secrets, Victor killed himself before Soap could stop him.

15,000 Nukes At Stake

Mad at his son’s death, Zakhaev threatened to launch nukes at the East Coast of America if the TF did not leave. In order to stop Zakhaev, Soap, Price, Gaz, Griggs, and several others parachuted into the Mountains in order to reach his nukes. However, their mission was delayed by Griggs's separation and subsequent capture. After eventually locating and recovering him, Soap planted a set of C4 on a power tower, destroying the electricity supply to the facility. Following this, the team regrouped with US snipers before witnessing a double nuclear missile launch at Zakhaev's hands. Entering the facility, the team furiously fought against time to reach the launch control center, and eventually deactivated the missiles. However, the team was unable to prevent Zakhaev's escape, and he managed to depart the facility before anything could be done. The group then attempted to escape, with Soap provided all-around covering fire for their jeep as they made their way to the extraction site. However, Zakhaev's Mi-24 Hind severely damaged the bridge, causing the jeep to crash and forcing Soap and his companions to make continue on their own.

Fighting fiercely at the bridge in a massive penultimate battle, Soap was blown to the ground and severely injured by an exploding fuel truck. But he was pulled into cover by SSgt. Griggs, moments before Griggs himself was killed. He then watched helplessly as Imran Zakhaev and his bodyguards executed Gaz and two other SAS operatives. Just as all hope seemed lost, a Loyalist Mi-28 gunship destroyed the Ultranationalist Mi-24 Hind, forcing Zakhaev and his henchmen to turn away their attention from Soap and open fire on the helicopter. With Zakhaev and his men's attention diverted, a heavily wounded Price slid Soap his M1911 pistol, which Soap used to kill Zakhaev and two of his bodyguards just as they began to turn.

Moments later, Loyalist forces flooded the scene and Kamarov came to Soap's aid, placing him onto a stretcher, and assuring him that he will be alright. Soap passed out during the middle of extraction, though survived his wounds alongside Price. After he recovered, he thought all of his squadmates had died, including Price.

Inter-War period

Credenhill Plan is pretty simple: Get stronger than before. Soap recuperated in Russia with Nikolai, then in a military hospital in Birmingham, U.K. before returning to Credenhill. He began to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, believing it was his fault that Griggs, Gaz and the others had died while feeling guilty that he had survived. Additionally, he was also angered at the Nuclear Crisis in Russia being covered up, and held some disdain towards the governments of the US, UK, and Russian Federation for doing so. Due to the cover-up, he was unable to tell Gaz's family what really happened to him, even though he felt they deserved to know. However, Soap does take some comfort in having killed Zakhaev, saying it makes it worthwhile. He was also under the impression that Price had perished alongside the others.

Task Force 141

Creation

During the inter-war period Soap decided to create a multinational Task Force. He managed to get the Commander of the U.S. forces in the middle east, Shepherd, to become the Task Force's Commander. He evaluated recruits from the U.S. Army Rangers, Special Air Service and Canadian Special Operations Regiment.

Reunited

Sometime before Operation Kingfish, Soap was reunited with Price. With Price joining as Field Commander of his newly formed Task Force.

Field Commander

After Operation Kingfish, Soap is leading the 141's operations with Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley and Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson under his command.

Recovering the ACS

Soap climbing Cliffhanger MW2 Soap climbing a mountain in Cliffhanger. Roach, these muppets have no idea we're here. Let's take this nice and slow.

When the Russians get their hands on a downed U.S satellite, MacTavish and Sanderson are sent to infiltrate a Russian airbase to recover an ACS module within the Tian Shan mountain range in Kazakhstan. After scaling the mountain and sneaking through the base, the two recover the module inside a hangar. However, they are quickly compromised by Major Petrov and his forces. MacTavish tells Roach to go to Plan B, in which Roach pulls the trigger to blow oil tanks with C4 up. They then exfil on snowmobiles.

Rojas

Shortly after the mission in Kazakhstan, MacTavish led Task Force 141 into Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to capture Rojas, an arms dealer who had supplied the Russian terrorist Vladimir Makarov during his assault on Zakhaev International Airport. While Soap and Ghost interrogated Rojas' right-hand man, Roach and two other task force members went into the favela in search of Rojas. The two are killed in the fighting, leaving Roach to tackle the favela by himself. Roach fights his way through, eventually linking up with MacTavish and Ghost, who have just captured Rojas. However, all they managed to learn from Rojas is that Makarov hates a prisoner.

Roach: Roach's first appearance was in the level “Cliffhanger,” where he accompanied Soap on a mission to infiltrate a Russian base in Kazakhstan. While the two climbed mountains towards there, Roach died before being saved by Soap. The two then approached the base on foot and manage to retrieve a stolen ACS module before exfiling.

Capturing Alejandro Rojas

Shortly afterward, Task Force 141 traveled to Rio De Janeiro on a mission to capture arms dealer Rojas, a contact of Makarov. Roach and the other team members chased Rojas through the Favela and eventually captured him, only to be swarmed by Militia. The team then mounted a break out and was able to work their way to the Favela rooftops, where they jumped to exfil.

Roach, however, misses the jump and holds on for his life but falls off before Soap could grab him. He was forced to make his way back to the helicopter completely unarmed with Militia hot on his trail. Just before the helicopter nearly ran out of fuel, he successfully made a second jump landing on the helicopter's ladder and was extracted with the rest of the team.

The mission plot:General Shepherd sends Task Force 141 to capture Alejandro Rojas, the supplier for Makarov and the massacre at Zakhaev International Airport, which caused the Russian invasion of the U.S for its involvement in the attack.

Having followed two militia members, Task Force 141 finds Rojas' assistant. The assistant guns down the two militamen before shooting at the car Roach and Soap are in, killing the driver. Soap, Ghost, and Roach chase the assistant into an alleyway, and under Soap's orders, Roach fires on the assistant's legs, crippling him before he could escape into the favela.

Soap and Ghost begin their interrogation of the assistant, tasking Roach, Meat and Royce to search for Rojas in the favela. When they arrive, Meat fires warning shots, telling the civilians to hide. The gunfire also prompts the militia to come out and engage the group, believing that the police have come to finish them off. Battling through the low-level favela, Meat and Royce are eventually killed by the militia, leaving Roach by himself.

Soap informs Roach that they have learned of Rojas' location, and they are on their way to apprehend him. Roach will not have backup, as there is no time to call for reinforcements. Roach battles his way to the upper levels of the favela as he encounters more militia, some of them armed with RPGs. Ghost and Roach have several opportunities to incapacitate Rojas, but Soap does not allow it, as it is too risky. The three continue to cut off Rojas' means of escape, and when Rojas seems like he is about to get away, Soap tackles him onto a car.

With their target captured, Ghost tries to call for extraction, but is unable to due to the war erupting in the U.S; none of the men appear to be aware of it, and Ghost feels that they have been abandoned.