Captain Eddie “Reaper” Grimm, a US Air Force drone pilot, supported by Staff Sergeant Nia Branson, provides air support from a Reaper to a US Army Delta Force team sent to rescue a CIA spy in the southern Philippines.[5] After a firefight breaks out against the Abu Sayyaf, Sergeant JJ Kinney – a young Air Force TACP (callsign “Playboy”) attached to the Delta Force team as its JTAC – is seemingly the only survivor and is directed to an extraction point, relying only on the Reaper’s remote air support.

Once Kinney arrives, he is intercepted by the Abu Sayyaf, depleting the ammunition of Grimm’s drone (consisting of AGM-114 Hellfire and BLU-118 munitions) and forcing the endangered extraction helicopter to leave. Trying to reach another extraction point, Kinney falls down a hill and loses his rifle, runs out of ammunition for his pistol, and then gets captured. One of his squad mates, Master Sergeant John “Sugar” Sweet, turns out to be alive and rescues Kinney, while telling him Sergeant Bishop was taken prisoner in Abu Sayyaf’s base in a series of caves, at their initial mission location. Using Sweet’s radio, Kinney contacts Grimm, who schedules three bombings to hit the base, each 15 minutes apart, before Grimm and Branson are forced by their superiors to take a leave for having exceeded their duty day. Kinney and Sweet raid one of Sayyaf’s facilities before being captured and taken to their prison.