Sad Things In the Of Their Own Accord Mission - Call of Duty MW2 

An interesting fact is the two “Rangers” defending the rooftop at the end are actually Navy SEALs, but IW just reused the Ranger models to save time and effort

The background dialogue in this mission is honestly one of the best in the entire call of duty series.

Man this mission is really heavy now that I’m older. It’s was so brutal lowkey. From the attention to detail to the evac site, man it was one of the heaviest campaign missions in cod.

Evac Site: “WE’RE BEING OVERRUNED. THEY’RE KILLING THE CIVIES. SEND HELP!” Ramirez: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sad how the evac site operator's voice slowly gets more paniced and you hear the civvies dying in the background

“We have Civilians taking up arms but they are totally untrained!” Basically my teammates in a nutshell

Man, I really miss CoD missions when you really feel like in a war and not just some kind of skirmish or a black ops where it's just you and your elite unit against an army. Jackson's and Ramirez's missions in CoD MW1 and 2 are great.

Ramirez: "STEP 8, GLENN! FREEDOM!" Pvt. Glenn: "For you Ramirez! Not for me!"

The evac site dialogue is heartbreaking. You hear the panic slowly ramping up as they are desperately fighting to protect civilians and also survive. It hurts to know soldiers go through this realistically but have to compartmentalize emotionally when they lose their brothers and sister in arms.

I got goosebumps when listening to the evac site dialogue, I didn't even waste a single second standing there and just started firing

Dude you can clearly hear the screams of the civilians when they had to fight back gives the chills

As an American this mission will always give me chills. The crazy thing is during the mission exodus you can hear a whole a section about rangers finding “dead civies” in a mall. Tbh I have spent a lot of time searching up radio chatter from the American missions and I have now realized why this will be the best call of duty ever.

A really sad thing in of their own accord is in the radio chatter there was a Major, and his team were being overrun and they requested code "Broken Arrow" then they died. Radio Operator: 1-2, Can you link up with 2-3 from where you are? over. Major: NEGATIVE NEGATIVE! GRAY! GET THE 240 GUNS OVER TO THE RIGHT FLANK MOVE MOVE! THEY'RE ROLLING AT US WITH A COUPLE PLATOONS OF T80'S. REQUEST BROKEN ARROW! I REPEAT BROKEN ARROW! Radio Operator: Roger that, solid copy on broken arrow. Major it's been an honor out.

Let’s. Be honest , price’s EMP probably took out the EVAC helicopters too . And most likely the ones already in the air .

At the beginning you can see many soldiers from the very first mission too. Many of them are injured.

For those who didn’t hear, one of the soldiers on the radio calls for “Broken Arrow”. In the US military, we use this term for when an allied position is getting overrun and require immediate air/ indirect fire support (artillery, mortar, etc) on which will either be extremely close to or directly on top of friendly troops

You can hear the panic rising more and more from the evac site, and you even hear him pull his side arm to die fighting I genuinely tried not to cry.

“Broken arrow drop that 1000 pounder in the red smoke NOW! Solid copy major it’s been an honor” by far the best and prob realistic radio traffic in cod ever

7:54 when the two navy seals were holding them off, i just refused to let them die. I eventually found out they weren't gonna move and that broke my heart :( It is honestly sadder when background characters die than main ones

The more I think about it. This is more dark if you try to apply it to real life. Being a soldier; thinking about your family(especially if your family is literally in Washington) , safety of others, and questioning where it’s safe if they invaded this easily

This mission hits harder when you realize that it is fairly realistic showing the horror of war, and not just some sneak behind enemy lines and somehow not get caught.

Sgt Foley voice actor always plays a good character Mass effect is a great example And he's a good team leader here too

It's sad to say but there will never be another mission like this in Call Of Duty again. I remember playing this for the first time when I was younger and never really thought any of the mission. Don't get me wrong, I thought it looked great on the 360 but just played through it like any other mission, shooting enemies and following the yellow marker. But as I have gotten older and I look back on this mission both in terms of the original and remastered version, I realise how unsettling and sad the level is. When I played the remaster and got to this level, I really took my time taking in my surroundings, looking at all the buildings were on fire and destroyed in the distance, the sky covered in pitch black smoke, watching Ramirez's fellow soldiers either holding their position, protecting an area, or pushing forward to retake buildings from the Russian Spetsnaz. As I walked out of the bunker and see the destruction to the various buildings and cars nearby, I think to myself how the civilians were just going about their day not realising what was to come. I know I'm probably just thinking way to deeply into it but that's how much the mission impacted me both in the original and remaster. 'Of Their Own Accord' is my second favourite COD Campaign mission of all time, just behind All Ghillied Up. One of the things I plan to do at some point is visit the United States and go to Washington, D.C. and see it for myself in person. The level design of this missions is something else and has made me want to visit the US since. I really hope that Infinity Ward pull something like this off again but as I said, I don't think there will be another mission like this again in Call Of Duty.

Who would win? One soldier refusing to use a sniper rifle OR an entire evacuation site full of soldiers and civilians.

Damn... The transmissions from the evac site were honestly hard to listen to. The panic in the guy's voice and the gunshots and screams in the background... felt like a gut punch.

Honestly, I think the cool thing in the Washington, DC mission is like seeing how all the buildings have been reinforced. Like you see the trenches and I feel the level design really leads to the feeling of hopelessness. Like to see the nations capitol literally a warzone.

The modern warfare series really shows what happens in war.

Man's really let the civies die for dialogue 😂😭

Dude the evac site dialog nearly had me in tears. I know it's just a game, but damn. That's heartbreaking

0:29 I thought he was contacting army support

Dark, frantic missions like this are easily the best in the CoD franchise. Stuff like “The Bog” on MW1; “Eviction” through “Downfall” on WaW; “Second Sun”, “Whiskey Hotel” and “Of Their Own Accord” in MW2; “Black Tuesday” and “Down the Rabbit Hole” in MW3, and so on. Furious fighting against enemies that refuse to budge, or are moments away from overwhelming you sets up such a massive feeling of satisfaction and relief when you finally break through and realize you won.

I loved when Dunn said we were going to burn Moscow because of the invasion on US Soil I wish we could have seen that in this game or come to fruition in MW3

For anyone wandering “Sua Sponte” is the 75th Ranger regiment’s motto, which is Latin for “of their own accord” RLTW

every time he changes the tone of his voice and its giving me goose bumps

Something this COD did that was phenomenal was give us a perspective of a very different experience in letting us feel what it’s like being in a hopeless situation and essentially watch your country be in the “enemy’s” grasp. And make such a hard effort to take it back.

This is something the new trilogy never could replicate. The feeling of being such an expendable assest in a fight much bigger than you or anyone you know. It made me appreciate the quiet protagonists like Jackson, Ramirez, and Frost; guys who just go in to fight and nothing more.

Leaving those troops on the roof always got to me the most... imagine what happened to them if they got captured smh..

You can hear the desperation increasing in those lines from the evac site. It's the kind of horrible detail that used to make COD so good back then, and made it so good during the 1st and somewhat part of the 2nd remaster. That wasn't a game about war, it was a warning, about how gruesome, terrifying and sad it can be. Even though we saw ourselves as heroes, we rarely felt like one, we only felt like yet another man with a gun in his hands, like everyone else in the squad.

Imagine getting into battalion as a private and your first op is defending the white house.

I believe there was a series of background chatter videos with transcriptions, that includes a bloody MAJOR who could've sit in the office and command but chose to get involved, and ended up having to call a broken arrow right on top of himself. Forgot whether this was in Wolverines! or Of Their Own Accord. Command replied something like "copy broken arrow. It's been an honor."

After the mission where Ghost and Roach get killed by Shepherd, this is no doubt the second saddest mission in MW2, maybe even more sad than the previous mentioned mission

the Washington monument bit is literally the only time I've ever shed a tear playing a video-game. I don't want to imagine that happening in real life, but it is happening somewhere as I'm typing this message that's probably gonna be seen by like 4 people...

i miss those a side action that take place in games. Its always so centred on the players and the "hero" is always so brave and tragetabel, i tried to speedruns those scenes where the ai dies to spare them always it failed

That shit is so haunting, I wish COD went back to having more soldiers in a war type missions over cool guy and his cool friends doing cool things cuz they're so cool kinds of missions. Feeling like you're part of an army apposed to being the army was so much more enjoyable.

On the first scene, among the injured, u can see one that try his hard to help other ranger that dying, but sadly, he didn't make it... It's really one of the sad scene😭

I got goosebumps when it was at 4:38. By The Way, this is a sad dialogue. What's more scary is this minute. 5:55 and It is at 6:04 that we can hear the screams of civilians and the atmosphere is getting more and more terrifying. 7:00 "Dagger 2, the washington mounment is taking fire from the main road!" Last words.

Evac site: THEY GOT IN THE EVAC SITE! WE LOST THE CIVVIES! NOOOOOOOOO! Ramirez: look at the funny fireworks

I feel that the SAM seen at 2:38 might be some leftover from cut content, like blowing up SAM to buy time for evac or something

People talk about the evac site, but they forget to mention one of the helicopter carrying them was unfortunately shot down. You actually can see the dialogue subtitled in the remastered version of civvie transport going down and then the audio cuts out. Not to mention later when Price sets off that EMP, all the helicopters that were possibly carrying the evacuated civilians went down as well.

2:20 "Send heavy fire in our position, we are pulling out of DC in 5 mikes out" ""BCT taking 90% of our access, we cannot take this position any longer. We are LEAVING DC, I REPEAT WE ARE LEAVING DC"

I love this mission. As an American, it really gets my emotions going.

I routinely fire up my Xbox 360 to play this mission alone. Honestly my favorite call of duty mission of all time. Thank you for this video

I don't know why, but I find it hilarious that the evac site depends solely on you "Ramirez" to do anything as if there is absolutely no one else around.

That nooooooo! Is very cathartic and brutally sad and scary at the same time.

I'm British and playing the US section for me I just can't explain the feeling seeing the US under invasion watching the US military fight so hard seeing monuments destroyed it's so sureal it gives you goosebumps and so many emotions from anger to sadness. Also having to open fire on the WW2 memorial sucks this whole is just emotional

The avac operator who requesting the backup is really panicking so hard seeing all his fellow allies and civies dies infront of him I repect him for helping his allies even though they get overrun 😢

I actually went out of my way to change the outcome concerning the SEALS on the rooftop. I made sure to refill my claymores before the dash to the roof begins, and layered them all the way up. If you do this and then make sure to stick around longer to defend against the Russian soldiers, eventually they stop coming up. Obviously this may not actually matter. Normally you see Russian troops following as you take off. If you do this though, the only thing that happens is the SEALS shoot down the hind that arrives. No Russian soldiers arrive as you leave so I like to think Ramirez did such a good job at booby-trapping the way up that the seals actually make it off the roof

0:16 - If you approach the soldier behind there who is trying to revive another soldier, you will see him stopping and sadly looking at his watch and marking the time when his friend died.

You can save those 2 guys in the rooftops by shooting all the enemies for 5 minutes

those 2 devgru guys that covering rangers and shot down that russian heli in rooftop deserves a monument.

Idk if this is true but I heard the audio you hear from evacuating civs to troops over run, basically any background radio of that nature was actual ex-radio operators and IW hired them for the role and when ya listen to it on like RU-vid videos where people have grabbed files it's insanely well done and sad really puts a perspective on it

Damn, the evac site dialogue really makes you regret not doing anything just to see what happens

I think the two Navy SEALS were evacuated by the Little Birds seen loitering around.

I remember seeing another video of the evac site dialogue years ago and I remember it sending shivers down my spine

Between these levels and Halo 3 ODST, which were only a year apart, my brain chemistry was altered as a kid.

I wish the new cod mw2 had missions like this instead of having everything all covert ops and trying way too hard to make the main characters all badass and invincible. I wish it had some missions like in the og mw trilogy where there’s constant radio chatter and gunfire everywhere with orders being shouted one after another

Anyone else go out of their way to grab the golden Deagle in the starting area

This game has been one of my favorites since my childhood days. Suddenly, when I watched this video to see the full explanation of this episode, I never knew this would lead to disturbing and chilling...

This and the embassy mission from MW 2019 are the cream of the crop.

6:28 you can hear the children.

"Broken Arrow" The last thing you wanna hear over the Coms

During the last Evac site transmission you can hear a pistol firing, meaning either the comms guy himself has run out of ammo and is using the only weapon he has left to defend the civies, or the civies themselves had to arm up with anything they could

4:32 The evac site dialogues were really impressive, now I want to play it again.

When I first played MW2 I didnt let the evac fall, I kept slamin rounds into targets even after that timer popped up

Imma be honest. This mission really put chills in my spine and it takes a lot for games to give me that. This mission was truly dark especially the setting and tone it has

Man i thought those guys on the roof were gonna be picked up by other little birds instead of being left, i literally question that for years

That *"NOOOOOOOO"* felt so genuine man 😥

When I first played this mission it was intense and felt personal even though it was a game

COD MW2 had a fucking awesome tone, we need to see another cod game exactly like this America is being invaded and you play as just an unimportant US Soldier, not spec ops or anything kind of like BF3

1:48 whenever a soldier says Broken Arrow, you know its catastrophic

WEE LOST THE CIVIEESSS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

It's sad and I played mw2 back then and now that I heard what would've happen if I didn't help them makes me glad I did:(

Imagine being 7 years old and hearing the evac site dialogue, _including the cut parts._ I think it'll haunt you for a long time.

Modern Warfare 2 2009 has more emotion being put into the game rather than the recent cod, especially at 6:49

Probably one of the saddest missions. One thing I like about it is human resilience if you do it correctly it shows how the US was able defend and go on the counter attack like in MW3s Black Tuesday and Operation Goalpost.

One of the parts in the mission is were you leave the guy on the rooftop and it's sad everytime I wish he came with us

There should be a entire call of duty game Focusing on nothing but this chapter, The MWIII American theatre.

i wish there was a cod where you can save some soilders and in the end there is like a photo where where you see all the people that you saved and idk deffrent endings

Man.... The more and more we sink into chaos this shit don't seem far off

If you look up Call Of Duty Modern Warfare 2 Of Their Own Accord mission radio chatter, you’ll find everything. It sounds so real it’s unbelievable. Saddest things are on that radio chatter though. Here’s a fact, the part of the mission where the solider says “2-2 is down!” and “our MK-19 is down” was actually based off real communication out of Iraq in 2005 during the Iraq War. Just 4 years after the September 11th attacks. Obviously the communication was edited a little bit to add some Washington D.C features to it. I think the communication was based out of Ramadi, Iraq or Baghdad. Rumor is, a Marine squad of 12 part of an unknown battalion was ambushed by enemy RPG’s to the west of their position. One ATASV (Armored Attack and Support Vehicle) was hit directly and 2 marines were instantly killed. As they were making their way to the east, one marine was shot and later died. You now have 3 marines KIA which is a big no no. They held off in a building (most likely in Baghdad) and were then attacked by an enemy technical (a technical in military term is a armored enemy militarized pickup truck with a machine gun or some sort of engagement weapon on the back that is used to support infantry by laying down heavy fire nonstop) so and so on later, you have more casualties. That’s when they called it. Now, broken arrow is only used as a term when nuclear or biological weapons are detonated or stolen. But, this was different the marines called in a QRF (Quick reaction force) and requested assistance from nearby units. It was a all call and a slaughterhouse. Nearly a hour later, a whole marine squad showed up with EVAC and only no one was alive. I’m not saying this is true nor real but I thought it would be interesting to share. The rumors came in and I’m sure 90% of the communication did actually come from Iraq or Afghanistan. Saddest shit though. I would feel like hell having to go through all this.

Wow i never knew this i always kill all enemies immediately hearing all those people die the voice acting is top notch i felt sad hearing them getting killed

the dialogue gives me goosebumps

Sat here tryna take a dump at home after school and man.., that evac sequence really broke me.., that Was sad..

Man, that evac site being completely overrun was truly sad. I was speechless & sad at once.

You can hear the urgency increase in the guy’s voice as the evac site slowly gets overrun. This game is a masterpiece

Great video! Just subscribed

Are we gonna respect that in MW there is that one soldier get shot in the head while carrying javelin..and Sgt.Griggs asked Sgt Paul Jackson to pick it up and destroy the tanks?

They just simply don’t make content like this anymore, the sheer detail. All of us as young bucks played this and will never forget.

I don't say this much but the Whiskey Mike segment nearly made me weep

Ramirez!