Task Force 141

For other uses of "141", see 141.

For the organization from the rebooted "Modern Warfare" series, see Task Force 141 (Reboot).

Task Force 141
Appears in	Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Mile High Club only) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered (Mile High Club only) Modern Warfare 2: Ghost Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 Campaign Remastered Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (reference and easter egg only) Call of Duty Online
Active	2011–⁠2016 - Disavowed from August 16th, 2016 to end of WWIII, 2017
Country	Australia Canada United Kingdom United States Russia
Leader(s)	Lieutenant General Shepherd (K.I.A.) Captain John Price Captain John "Soap" MacTavish (K.I.A.)
Type	Special Operations Group, Multinational Military Organization
Level	Cliffhanger No Russian Takedown The Hornet's Nest The Only Easy Day... Was Yesterday The Gulag Contingency Loose Ends The Enemy of My Enemy Just Like Old Times Endgame Prologue Persona Non Grata Back on the Grid Return To Sender Eye of the Storm Blood Brothers Stronghold Down the Rabbit Hole Dust to Dust
Announcer	Simon "Ghost" Riley (Modern Warfare 2) Default Announcer (Online)
Music

"Welcome to the 141. Best handpicked group of warriors on the planet."

— General Shepherd to Private First Class Joseph Allen.

Task Force 141, colloquially referred to as "The One-Four-One," is a multinational special operations unit. Its members serve as the principal protagonists of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, in which their main objective is to apprehend or eliminate Vladimir Makarov, a Russian Ultranationalist responsible for masterminding a Russian invasion of the United States. In 2016, its members participated in notable special operations in Kazakhstan, Moscow, Rio de Janeiro, a Russian Gulag, a submarine base in the Kamchatka Peninsula, the Georgian-Russian border, and Afghanistan.

Notably during August 15th, 2016, Lieutenant General Shepherd betrayed Task Force 141; subsequently all the remaining members of Task Force 141 were either eliminated or on the run at the conclusion of the crisis. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the survivors united with Russian Loyalists to continue with their main objective.

Composition

Task Force 141 had at least eighty-five known operators that are drawn from the special operations forces of Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States and Russian Loyalist. The specific units that contribute operators to Task Force 141 are unknown.

During the events of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, the commanding officer of Task Force 141 appears to be Lieutenant General Shepherd, a U.S. Army officer who spearheads the Task Force's operations. Additionally, British soldiers of the Special Air Service such as Captain John "Soap" MacTavish, Lieutenant Simon "Ghost" Riley and Sergeant Gary "Roach" Sanderson serve as operators during field missions. After his liberation from a Russian gulag, Captain John Price of the Special Air Service also serves as a field commander.

Disavowed

After the events of Modern Warfare 2, a rogue Shepherd was killed by Soap and Task Force 141 was disavowed. However, a few Task Force 141 operatives, such as John Price and Soap, continued to operate with support from the current Baseplate operative and former colleague of Price, MacMillan. When Task Force 141 reunited, they joined forces with Nikolai and his group of Russian Loyalists. Their primary objective was to exterminate the highly notorious terrorist Vladimir Makarov, which in doing so, would clear their names.

Names Cleared

After rescuing Russian President Boris Vorshevsky and his daughter Alena from a diamond mine in Siberia, Task Force 141 was reinstated (signified by the Disavowed status on the Task Force 141 emblem being removed) by NATO, and even Russia itself approve their actions for rescuing the president and they began to concentrate their efforts to hunt down Makarov once again, eventually locating and killing him three months later in the United Arab Emirates.

List of Known Members

Main article: Task Force 141/Members

Equipment

Assault Rifles

M4A1

SCAR-H

ACR

TAR-21

M16A4

SCAR-L

AK-47

G36C

Commando (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)

Submachine Guns

UMP45

MP5K

MP5

Vector

Mini-Uzi

P90

Light Machine Guns

M240

AUG HBAR

PKP Pecheneg

MK46

RPD

Machine Pistols

G18

Shotguns

M1014

W1200 (Mile High Club and Museum only)

AA-12

SPAS-12

Ranger

Underbarrel Shotgun

Striker

Sniper Rifles

M14 EBR

Intervention

RSASS

Barrett .50cal

Handguns

M9

USP .45

M1911

Desert Eagle

P99

Five Seven

.44 Magnum

P226 (Find Makarov: Operation Kingfish)

Launchers

FGM-148 Javelin

AT4

M203

GP-25

RPG-7

Thumper

FIM-92 Stinger

Notable military operations

Between 2011 and 2013

• Hostage rescue in Ukraine.

2013

• Joint operation with U.S Delta Force to apprehend Kingfish (Vladimir Makarov)

Between 2013 and 2016

• Hostage rescue on a hijacked airplane.

2016

• Infiltrating a Russian airbase in the Tian Shan Mountain Range in Kazakhstan to retrieve an ACS module.
• Capturing Alejandro Rojas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and escaping from favela.
• Eliminating hostiles and rescuing hostages at Vikhorevka 36 Oil Platform, Russian Far East.
• Rescuing Prisoner 627 from a gulag near Petropavlovsk, Russia.
• Infiltrating a Russian submarine base near Petropavlovsk and launching an ICBM aimed at America to create an EMP to stall the Russian invasion.
• Successfully retrieving a DSM from Makarov's estate in Georgian-Russian border.
• Escaping from Makarov's and Shepherd's men in a boneyard near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
• Infiltrating the headquarters of Shadow Company and killing Shepherd in Site Hotel Bravo.
• Extracting the wounded Soap to Nikolai's safehouse in India.
• Searching for a cargo package belonging to Makarov in Sierra Leone.
• Searching for Waraabe, a man involved in the chemical attacks on Europe, in Somalia.
• Price, Yuri and Soap move through Prague to get to a tower, where they try to assassinate Vladimir Makarov.
• Yuri and Price go to a castle that is being used by the Russians as a firebase, with the objective to learn the location of Makarov.
• Joint operation with U.S. Delta Force to rescue the President of Russia, Boris Vorshevsky, and his daughter from a diamond mine.

2017

• Price and Yuri kill Makarov in a hotel in the Arabian Peninsula

Special Ops

Task Force 141 also appears in Special Ops mode in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. They are a playable faction in missions:

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Sniper Fi

O Cristo Redentor

Evasion

Overwatch

Bomb Squad

Race

Hidden

Breach & Clear

Time Trial

Snatch & Grab

Acceptable Losses

Estate Takedown

Wetwork

High Explosive

Armor Piercing

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3

Kill Switch

Multiplayer

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2's multiplayer, they are a playable faction.

Multiplayer Maps

Afghan

Rust

Scrapyard

Crash

Derail

Estate

Wasteland

Overgrown

Salvage

Storm

Favela

Quarry

Rundown

Underpass

Carnival

Emblems

The original emblem (before Shepherd's death)

The emblem in Call of Duty Online.

The disavowed Task Force 141 emblem (after Shepherd's death).

Task Force 141, after rescuing the Russian President.

Emblem that is used only on Perk Care Package and on Price's lighter, found in Modern Warfare 3's files.

Soap's drawing of the 141 emblem.

Gallery

Some of Task Force 141's members with U.S. Army Rangers at Fire Base Phoenix.

Task Force 141 during Operation Kingfish.

Campaign Models

Brazil

Woodlands

Arctic

Wetsuits

Multiplayer Models

Desert

Variation A of the assault model.

The second variant.

The desert LMG model.

The desert shotgun model.

The desert SMG model.

The desert sniper model sans ghillie suit.

The desert riot model.

Head model A.

Head model B.

Head model C.

Head model D.

Arctic

The first variation of the arctic assault model.

The second variant.

The arctic LMG model.

The arctic shotgun model.

The arctic SMG model.

The arctic sniper model sans ghillie suit.

The arctic sniper model with the ghillie suit.

The arctic riot model.

Videos

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 TF141 Spawn Theme

Task Force 141's spawn theme.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 TF141 Victory Theme

Task Force 141's victory theme.

Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 - TF141 Defeat Theme

Task Force 141's defeat theme.

CoD Modern Warfare 2 TF141 Spawn Soundtrack Full Version

Task Force 141's full theme.

Trivia

• While the British, Americans, and Australians have their flags in their colors and on their shoulder patches, the Canadians have their flag on their back in green.
  • There are no Canadian Task Force 141 models in multiplayer despite models being in the campaign.
• Choosing an LMG in multiplayer will make the player spawn with an Australian flag, choosing an SMG or an Assault Rifle will make the player generate with a British or American flag, and choosing a Sniper Rifle will make the player spawn with an American flag, unless the player has unlocked the Ghillie Suit.
• Task Force 141 (along with the Heartbeat Sensor) is jokingly referenced in a conversation between two characters in the 2010 video game Battlefield: Bad Company 2. After discovering the team has to go on a hunt for an HVT, Sarge says, "I should clear this with Braidwood," to which Sweetwater replies, "No! No, no, no! He'll just send some special ops douche-bags, with pussy-ass heartbeat monitors on their guns, instead of us!"
• The full Task Force 141 theme tune is played during the mission "Contingency".
• In Modern Warfare 3, some Delta Squad soldiers have the same name as many of the Task Force members.
• By the end of Modern Warfare 3, Price and Nikolai are the last known remaining Task Force 141 members.
• In Modern Warfare 3, the old and new Task Force 141 logo can be unlocked in Multiplayer.
• The old Task Force 141 emblem is seen in Perk Care Packages from Survival Mode.
• Task Force 141 is referenced in Far Cry 3. During the level "Fly South", Willis says that he must join Task Force 141 to go to Russia.
• The numeral designation of the SWC-141 Retribution from Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare was recommended by representatives of the Russian Federation in remembrance of the Task Force's heroic actions in rescuing Russian President Boris Vorshevsky.. This was deemed as an easter egg rather than a connection between Modern Warfare 3 and Infinite Warfare.