Vice President of the United States

The US Vice President (codename "Goalpost") is a minor character in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. The Vice President forms the basis of the mission entitled "Goalpost", in which he is the focus of the rescue operation by Team Metal. He was in Hamburg en route to a peace talk with his delegation when he was ambushed and captured, but is later rescued and extracted safely by Team Metal.

Trivia

 * This is the second Vice President appearance in the Call of Duty series. Richard Nixon, who appears in Zombies, was Vice President for from 1953 to 1961.
 * If the player isn't fast enough after breaching the door where he is being held hostage, a Russian will put a bullet through his head, causing the player to fail the mission.
 * The player can fail the mission by accidentally shooting and killing him after breaching.