Task Force 141

Summary

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 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, in which their main objective is to apprehend or eliminate Vladimir Makarov, a Russian Ultranationalist responsible for masterminding the Russian invasion of the United States.

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.

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, 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 the Petropavlovsk Gulag, Captain John Price of the Special Air Service also serves as a field commander.

Disavowed

During the events of Modern Warfare 2, Lieutenant General Shepherd betrayed Task Force 141; subsequently all the remaining members were either eliminated or on the run, the rogue Shepherd was then killed by John "Soap" MacTavish at the conclusion of the crisis and Task Force 141 was disavowed. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the few 141 survivors such as John Price and Soap reunited with Nikolai and his group of Russian Loyalists, they continued to operate with support from the current SAS Baseplate operative and former colleague of Price, MacMillan, to resume their main objective.