What makes Medal of Honor so unique—aside from a player option that allows someone to play a member of the opposing forces who can attack U.S. soldiers—is that there are details in the game that are so specific and involve units so sensitive that there always has to have been some sort of informal cooperation with the military. And not just from the military, but a part of the military that doesn’t cooperate with software companies—the Joint Special Operations Command, which runs the Pentagon’s unacknowledged “Black Units.”…

By statute, Tier One operators are members of the Delta Force and the Navy’s SEAL Team Six. It is illegal for someone to reveal the identities of current Tier One operatives, so instead of breaking the law, I will say that one of the Tier One guys who consulted for EA is nicknamed “Arrow.” He was a Delta squadron commander a few years back. The other is a former SEAL Team Six member whose nickname is “Punch.”…

“There are at least six things in that game that you shouldn’t know about,” a former JSOC operator told me.