Whiskey Hotel (level)

Ranger: So when are we goin' to Moscow?

''Cpl. Dunn: Not soon enough man. But I know we're gonna burn it down when we get there.''

''Sgt. Foley: When the time is right, Corporal. When the time is right.''

(Ramirez's team after they retake Whiskey Hotel)

You start where you left off in "Second Sun". From the bunker your team meets up with Colonel Marshall. The Col. explains to Sgt. Foley that they're looking at the "high ground", seeing the American flag still up on top of the White House. With power still in it, they should be able to talk to central command if they can retake it. Sgt. Foley leads his team over the left flank and reach Whiskey Hotel. The machinegun fire will make it difficult to advance, especially on the harder difficulties, but destroying the searchlights does help make the gunners less attentive to you. Hearing from a speaker behind a painting, the team has 2 minutes before the Air Force initiates the "Hammerdown Protocol" and flattens the city in order to take out the Russians. You then fight your way through the building and successfully reach the roof at the nick of time to pop green flares signaling the Air Force to abort the fire mission. As you look out at a burning Washington D.C. you also see other buildings marked with green flares.

Trivia

 * Whiskey Hotel is the military designation for "White House".
 * Despite all electrical devices being disabled, you can find a functioning copy machine in an office that you must fight though.
 * In the previous level, Second Sun, you go through the Eisenhower Building to the President's bunker on the east wing. In a real map, the Eisenhower Building is actually west of the White House, whereas when you start you somehow come out east of the White House when the previous level you ended to the west.
 * The ending to this mission bears a strong resemblance to the climax of the movie The Rock in that the protagonist must pop a green signal (smoke in the movie, flare in the game) to abort an incoming airstrike.
 * "Hammerdown Protocol" is an easter egg and a reference to the movie Cloverfield. Definition: "a planned series of military offensive tactics in which a target location such as an area, political region like a city, town, state or even a country is completely destroyed using highly explosive detonation devices such as tactical nuclear weapons or napalm bombs." It is unknown if it actually exists in name, although the concept is plausible.