U.S.D.D./Trivia

Trivia

 * U.S.D.D is an acronym for United States Department of Defense. It is the third time in the Call of Duty series a mission title is a military acronym, as well as the first to be an official one, rather than a slang term.
 * It's also the first not to contain a profane word. The others were F.N.G., which stands for Fucking New Guy (COD 4) and S.S.D.D., which stands for Same Shit, Different Day (MW2).
 * This meeting takes place just 12 days before Kennedy's real-life assassination on November 22, 1963.
 * The metal detectors near the entrance of the Pentagon have Treyarch logos and III ARC writings on them.
 * There are references to William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest". McNamara says "Clearance Prospero", Prospero being the name of the protagonist of the play. McNamara also says "Ariel" and "Sycorax", Ariel being the name of the spirit that serves Prospero and Sycorax being the name of a powerful witch who is the mother of Caliban, one of the primary antagonists.
 * After passing the man at the desk and entering the hallway with all the Distinguished Heroes and Leaders portraits on the walls, the portrait of the soldier next to the portrait of the doctor on the left wall is of Major John Plaster, Treyarch's lead consultant from S.O.G. Two other portraits are CSM Eric L. Haney (ret.), one of the founding members of the U.S. Army's Delta Force, and Lt Col. Hank Keirsey (ret), Treyarch's Military Consultant. Also the man at the desk bears a strikingly close resemblance to Gordon Freeman from the Half-Life series.
 * In one of the pictures in the Distinguished Heroes and Leaders hall, on one of the pictures on the left it will say "Battle of Midway" and there will be a picture from the single-player level "Black Cats" from World at War. The player can also see a picture of Sgt. Roebuck to the right and a picture on the Sherman "Crocodile" in the level Relentless.
 * One picture shows a screenshot from Blowtorch and Corkscrew. The player can see Roebuck, Polonsky and an unidentified man with an M2 Flamethrower. Since C. Miller was the only person with a flamethrower in the level, this is probably him. The same picture is in the starting room in Five.
 * In one scene in the intro interrogation cutscene, the player can see that Mason went under a polygraph examination. The agency security official who apparently tested him was named C. Miller, who was one of the two main protagonists in World at War.
 * While in one of the office rooms, Mason will look at a blond woman named Sarah who Weaver is trying to hook Mason up with, discussed in an email accessed via the computer.
 * While walking through the war room it can be noted that the map of Europe shows a unified (allied) Germany.
 * When Kennedy is in slow-mo the TV monitors in the background show images of his assassination and funeral.
 * When Kennedy is in slow motion, if the player looks to the second monitor from the left in the top row, it will display Lee Harvey Oswald's mugshot (The man believed to have killed Kennedy) briefly.
 * When Hudson goes through the metal detectors, it beeps, meaning that he is armed. This would make sense, considering his job and that he holsters a handgun after knocking down Mason in Revelations.
 * The majority of this map has the same layout as "Five".
 * Most of the scenes on Wii are cut out.
 * As you see the third person view of Mason, Hudson and McNamara walking through the metal detectors, press the "fire" button and the screen "you have shot a civilian" will show up. (confirmed for PS3 and Xbox 360)
 * Also if you press the knife button just when entering the Pentagon the screen will go slanted. This was confirmed for the Xbox 360, but may not always work.
 * The music in the beginning of the level is a variant of the music at the menu when you are in the chair. Also, late in the level the music from the multiplayer menu (Pentagon) is used.
 * When Mason meets Kennedy in his hallucination he points a chrome plated M1911 at JFK further implying that he was involved in the shooting on November 22, 1963.
 * If you noclip and look at Mason, you will see he has no head. Also, when you go into meet the president, if you try to noclip into the war room, it has disappeared.
 * When you first enter the room where Kennedy is standing he's in the same pose as his White House portrait.
 * It's not possible to lower the level difficulty when playing this level.
 * The DEFCON level in this mission is "3". This was the normal level during the cold war.
 * It is commonly rumored and hyped that the screens behind President Kennedy was an Easter Egg planted by Treyarch as a future look into the assassination of President Kennedy. However, since this and most of the levels in the game is a flashback, it may be that Mason is simply hallucinating clips on these screens.
 * On the walls in the war room, the player can see outlines of the PM63 and the MP5K just like in the zombie map "Five".
 * On the wall behind Kennedy in the war room there is a row of lit clocks showing the time in different places. The rightmost clock is unlit, and where it tells you the place the clock represents it says "ascension". You can see this if you watch the video below in full screen and pause it at 4:26
 * The number sequences that can be heard by mason can be decoded, the numbers heard each are decoded into the words used by McNamara to pass the checkpoints, hinting that the number sequences broadcasted could have been helping him get to JFK.
 * When you first enter the pentagon, the metal detectors have the Treyarch logo on the top of them.
 * Also, when JFK and time is slowed, the TVs still play at a regular speed