The game's campaign follows Task Force 141, a multinational special forces unit commanded by Captain Soap MacTavish as they hunt Vladimir Makarov, leader of the Russian Ultranationalist party, and United States Army Rangers from the 1st Ranger Battalion who are defending the Washington, D.C. area from a Russian ...

In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II's post-credits cutscene, a terrorist orders and receives salads even though the flight attendant never said the dish was an option. This implies that the flight attendant was in on the plan as those salad dishes also had gun magazines hidden underneath their lids.