Crew Expendable

"Infiltrate the cargo ship and take the package"

- Level description.

"Crew Expendable" is the second mission in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It sees the player control SAS trooper John "Soap" MacTavish to retrieve a package on an Estonian Freighter.

Characters

 * John "Soap" MacTavish (playable)
 * John Price
 * Gaz
 * Wallcroft
 * Griffen

Plot
Taking place at night on a storm-lashed Estonian Freighter in the Bering Strait, Captain Price leads a team of SAS commandos onto the ship. His team, including SAS newcomer "Soap" MacTavish, rope down onto the ship's deck. Their objective is to recover a suspected nuclear device, which is hidden in a crate inside one of the ship's cargo holds. Captain Price and his team clears the ship's bridge and crew quarters quickly, then proceed through the cargo holds, killing all of the armed guards. They find the package, which turns out to be plutonium, but reports of "fast movers" approaching the ship means they have to get out quickly, so Soap grabs the shipping manifest and they leave the ship. As they are leaving, the ship is fired upon by the unidentified aircraft, However the team successfully extract from the ship in the nick of time as it begins to sink. The raid was a partial success, although they could not secure the nuclear device for safekeeping, the manifest seized by Soap points to Middle Eastern military and coup d'etat leader Khaled Al-Asad as the intended buyer of the nuclear device.

Enemy Intelligence

 * Laptop 1 is located in the bunk room where the drunk Russian comes out. The laptop will be on a desk next to a computer and under a poster.
 * Laptop 2 is in the first cargo hold the player enters. If he/she goes down the first set of stairs, the laptop would be on the left, out in the open.

Achievements
Make the Jump (20 ) - Successfully make the jump to the helicopter.

The Package (40 ) - Complete the mission on Veteran difficulty.

Trivia

 * At the very end of "Game Over", as Soap's vision fades to white, a female news anchor reports that a search for a missing ship, obviously the one in this mission, was called off due to a storm.
 * Some unused audio mentions that the missing ship had luxury automobiles in it, which the one in this mission did not.
 * The containers with Chinese characters say "快歌樂運輸", which means "Kreigler Transporting", the name printed on some of the other crates. Kreigler was also the original name of the hostage in "Mile High Club" before it was removed from the storyline of the game and added as a bonus mission.
 * Kreigler refers to Richard Kreigler, the head art director of Infinity Ward.
 * Pausing after jumping onto the helicopter will show the player in a hidden corner of the map.
 * This mission contains many references to the Aliens series of films: These include the title, "Crew Expendable" (in reference to a line from the first film), and the lines "I like to keep this for close encounters", "Check those corners", "Stay Frosty" and "Soldier, we are leaving".
 * It is possible to pick up at least two Desert Eagles and use them interchangeably. Strangely, they also do not share ammunition.
 * When looking at Price's face when reaching the package, his mask is off when he stops running to it.
 * On the side of the container that has the "Package", it says "IW PWN T2" vertically.
 * If the player looks closely at the Minigun while it's firing in the beginning, nobody is firing it.
 * It's impossible to kill the sleeping Russians with grenades.
 * Firing the USP.45 will not wake up the sleeping Russians, even though it is unsilenced.

Transcript
Корабль (Modern Warfare) Crew Expendable