Crew Expendable" is the second mission in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. It sees the player control S.A.S trooper John "Soap" MacTavish to retrieve a package on an Estonian Freighter.
Taking place at night on a storm-lashed Estonian Freighter in the Bering Strait, Captain Price leads a team of S.A.S commandos onto the ship. His team, including S.A.S newcomer "Soap" MacTavish, rope down onto the ship's deck. Their objective is to recover a suspected nuclear device, which is hidden in a crate inside one of the ship's cargo holds. Captain Price and his team clears the ship's bridge and crew quarters quickly, then proceed through the cargo holds, killing all of the armed guards. They find the package, which turns out to be plutonium, but reports of "fast movers" approaching the ship means they have to get out quickly, so Soap grabs the shipping manifest and they leave the ship. As they are leaving, the ship is fired upon by the unidentified aircraft, However the team successfully extract from the ship in the nick of time as it begins to sink. The raid was a partial success, although they could not secure the nuclear device for safekeeping, the manifest seized by Soap points to Middle Eastern military and coup d'etat leader Khaled Al-Asad as the intended buyer of the nuclear device.