Ajay and Ray are sent to Somalia, where an arms transfer involving Shabal is taking place. Shabal, an old-school Islamic terrorist, seeks to bring jihad to the U.S., while Christo provides the routes for smuggling drugs and people into the U.S. On the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard, Rorke is informed that the intelligence recovered confirms Shabal and Christo were working together.

Christo knows the CIA is watching him and informs Shabal that subordinates will complete their project, which is to equip suicide bombers with specialized undetectable explosive vests. The hot pursuit forces them to revert to a tertiary extraction point where two SWCC boats extract the team and neutralize the enemy pursuit with miniguns.Ĭhristo and Shabal, who are revealed to have been childhood friends, meet in Kyiv. The SEALs commandeer an enemy truck and exfiltrate. However, the gunfight alerts the enemy quick reaction force. The SEALs extract Morales, escaping with her and recovering a cellphone full of the information she had gathered. Mikey is shot in the head, blinding him in one eye, and knocking him unconscious, though he survives. At dawn, they approach the compound and engage several enemy guards. The seven Navy SEALs insert into the jungle via HALO and hold position outside the compound all night.

A squad from the platoon consisting of Rorke, Dave, Wiemy, Mikey, Ray, Sonny, and Ajay, is then deployed to Costa Rica to exfiltrate Morales. Lieutenant Rorke confides to Chief Dave that his wife is pregnant and has the entire team spend time together with their families until their next deployment. Christo's men kill Ross and capture Morales, who is imprisoned in a jungle compound and tortured.Īt Coronado, the members of Bandito Platoon, SEAL Team 7 are at home. Elsewhere in Costa Rica, two CIA officers, Walter Ross and Lisa Morales, meet to consolidate intelligence about their target, a drug smuggler named Mikhail 'Christo' Troykovich. The mastermind, a Chechen terrorist, Abu Shabal, escapes to a training camp in Indonesia. In Manila a terrorist assassinates the United States Ambassador to the Philippines, and also kills his son and dozens of children at an international primary school, using an ice cream truck to lure the children then detonating. It was nominated for Best Original Song at the 70th Golden Globe Awards. The film received generally negative reviews from critics, but was a box-office success, grossing over $81 million worldwide against a production budget of $12 million. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen, as well as Roselyn Sánchez, Jason Cottle, Alex Veadov, Nestor Serrano, and Emilio Rivera.Īct of Valor was released in the United States on February 24, 2012, by Relativity Media. Act of Valor is a 2012 American action film produced and directed by Mouse McCoy and Scott Waugh and written by Kurt Johnstad.

Act of valor based on a true story