Victor Charlie

"Victor Charlie" is a mission Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Overview
In this mission the player will start off in a downed helicopter. An injured pilot calls for help, but is shot. Mason shoots 2 VC with his M1911. The chopper then sinks, Mason attempts to open the escape latch, only to have Reznov (on the outside of the chopper) do it for him. Mason then swims up to a VC sampan, climbs up and takes a VC troop hostage and uses him as a meat-shield to kill the rest of the hostiles. Shortly after some more firefights, Mason will only be armed with only a unique SOG knife. Now He and Woods go on a small stealth mission. First they pull two VC off their sampan and slit their throats. (then Mason plants C4 on an underneath structure.) Second they enter a small hut, and silently kill two sleeping enemies. And finally, Mason impales a VC troop into the heart. Shortly after that, Mason and Woods will meet up with Bowman and another SOG operative. Now the 2 teams split up. Mason dives down a small cracked wood hole and plants another C4.

Now the player regroups with Woods, Bowman and several other SOG operatives and fight many VC targets, they go weapons free on them. The player is now armed with a Commando w/ Grenade Launcher, as well as a WA2000. The team encounter a ZPU, and Mason uses the Grim Reaper to dispose of it.

Next they encounter some rat holes, so Mason throws a grenade in each. Then they fight a turret, so if Mason still has the Grim Reaper, he can destroy it. If not, he will just have to kill the operator.

Now he and Swift are ordered to climb down a rat's nest and clear out any remaining VC, Woods gives Mason a flashlight, and he uses it with his Python. Mason orders Swift to hold, as he meets Reznov yet again, telling him Kravchenko is near. Swift takes point and yells at Mason "What the fuck's wrong with you?" He then, however is killed by a VC ambusher with a knife. Mason kills the hostile and moves on, he takes out more hostiles rambling in the rat's nest, until finally meeting up with Reznov.

Reznov takes point, and counter attacks a VC ambusher. He then orders Mason to take point. As he kills many more VC, they finally get to a lab or small radio station of some sort, a tape plays, and Kravchenko describes the Nova 6 gas, it's effects and the times it takes to kill the victim. The rat's nest is rigged to blow, Mason and Reznov crawl their way to an exit, right up until Mason must dig his way through some rocks.

When they reach the rats nest's exit, there is no sign of Woods or Bowman. Until they arrive via helicopter, and Mason jumps on.

Trivia

 * On this mission a Commando can be found with Tiger Camoflage, it is unknown what causes this and if it is dropped by a dead teammate or found on the floor.
 * Victor Charlie was the term with which American soldiers referred the Viet Cong. The terms "Victor" and "Charlie" are the NATO phonetic alphabet codes for the letters "V" and "C".
 * It appears that the helicopter that is being shot at by Viet Cong soldiers belongs to the 1st Cavalry Division, shown by the horse head in the yellow background seen on the front of the helicopter.
 * In the beginning of the level, the player can see most, if not all, of the character's body.
 * This is the longest mission so far in Black Ops.
 * In the E3 trailer, the player can hear Mason's heart beating, probably showing fear and/or fatigue.
 * The mission features two songs synonymous with the Vietnam war: 'Fortunate Son' by 'Credence Clearwater Revival' and 'Sympathy for the Devil' by 'The Rolling Stones'
 * When the player opens the UH-1's door and swims out, if the player listens carefully, he will hear a series of numbers that the woman says at the end of the game in Call of Duty: Black Ops, this may happen because it implies one of Mason's hallucinations, because Reznov is not actually present.
 * This, and Payback, are the only levels in the Call of Duty series where the player can use a human shield.
 * If you try to shoot Reznov in the rat tunnels, Reznov will tell you he is working his way around. After he leaves, Swift will say "What the fucks wrong with you?". This is actually Swift's reply to Mason talking to himself as he also says, "You need to start pulling your shit together" before he is killed.
 * Even if you don't shoot Reznov at the 'Rat Tunnel' Swift will say the same.
 * The knife used in this level is different from the normal melee knife. It looks to be a SOG scuba/demo knife
 * In this level the player can see a brown snake in the water near VC boat.
 * After Woods silently instructs the player to kill the two sleeping Vietcong,they can be left alone and do not actually need to be killed, without further consequences.
 * If the player shoots the VC using the mounted machine gun, rather than blowing it up with the Grim Reaper to receive an achievement/trophy called Heavy Hand, they can use the machine gun. It is the same machine gun used on the BTRs on Rebirth Island.
 * If you dive to prone into the pit that enters into the tunnels where you accompany Swift, you will die on impact with the floor.
 * When you are swimming to safety at the beginning, you can notice that Reznov is not creating any air bubbles, implying he is not breathing. Though this is because he is not actually there.
 * When you first see Reznov opening the door, his mustache looks identical to Captain Price's mustache.
 * When you see Bowman the first time when he takes out a guard, if the player puts his cross-hairs over that guard they will notice that they still are red, and that knifing the corpse from some distance will cause an odd stabbing animation.
 * Also, the VC that Bowman killed may still be partially alive, because his fingers are twitching.
 * It is not clear was the VC ambusher who Reznov killed in the tunnels also a part of Mason's hallucination. Although Mason possibly killed the ambusher himself, just like Friedrich Steiner
 * The bird perched on the roof of the house where you can kill the sleeping VC is invulnerable.
 * Right before you eneter the rat tunnels, and possibly even throughout the entire level, one of Wood's tattoos which had normally said SOG Tough says 115. This is reference to Element 115 introduced in Call of Duty: World at War's zombie mode. It is currently unknown as of whether Woods has had any prior experience fighting zombies. Perhaps in a future map pack you can play as Woods in a zombie level.