Punta Gorda

Punta Gorda is a Stryker that appears in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. It appears in the level Team Player, and is part of a convoy of vehicles on the bridge. It then enters Tunnel Harvey with the Humvee 'Blue Steel' and disappears, aparently into a wall, as if you get out of the map using the glitch in the school playground, and then go up to that tunnel and go inside, it is a dead end. In Spanish, Punta Gorda roughly translates to "Fat Tip". It is a modified Stryker which has a 105mm howitzer in place of a typical 50 cal machine gun. It is never seen after entering the tunnel so it's status unknown. It probably survived the invasion of the town, as the OpFor are easily conquered and Punta Gorda was obviously far from the massive ambushes concentrated around the school, which the OpFor are using as their headquarters in the town. It is one of the only three Stryker vehicles in Modern Warfare 2, the others being Honey Badger and Bugs.

Bugs and Punta Gorda are the only two Strykers taking part in the Rangers' invasion in Team Player. Bugs is the only Stryker in the level which the player sees having any interaction with the enemy, as it is giving fire support to the Rangers, taking out an enemy BMP-2 giving OpFor fire support and wiping out an OpFor squad with it. What Punta Gorda's role in the invasion is is unknown, as it never actually fires its turret in the presence of the player. It is most likely, however, that Punta Gorda was simply intended to help with patrolling the part of the town that the player obviously was not assigned to.

Punta Gorda is actually the name of a small city in southwest Florida, notable for being devastated by Hurricane Charley in 2004. It is possible that one of the designers is from this city, hence the name inclusion.