Premieres: August 13
Airs: Thursdays through September 17
Network: Military Channel
Featuring Wil Willis
What’s It All About? In each episode of this limited series, special forces operator Wil Willis must complete a nearly impossible mission. Using his 14 years of Army Ranger and Air Force Para-Rescue experience, his task is to complete a complex series of military objectives to survive, evade and escape a highly trained and highly motivated opposition force that’s determined to stop him. Each episode introduces a new “Op-For” team, including some of the best manhunters on the planet, employing the latest in high-tech weaponry and military tactics to stop Willis. Meanwhile, Willis, traveling alone, must rely only on his own sense of survival to evade the “Op-For” team.
The series rounds out its run this fall with these episodes:
September 10: “Operation Freebird Down” — A force antagonistic to the government has set up anti-aircraft systems. Willis’s mission is to take direct action against the radar and communication system that allows this anti-government force to track allied planes. But as he is navigating his mission, an allied plane is shot down and a pilot parachutes into enemy territory, leaving Willis to modify his mission to find and rescue the downed pilot. With the injured pilot in tow, Willis moves carefully through enemy territory to save both of their lives while the opposition force is in full pursuit.
September 17: “Operation One Shot” — A murderous drug lord has established a military training camp along a river, and is rumored to be going to the camp to observe its operations. Willis’s mission is to enter the heavily guarded camp as a lone sniper, identify the drug lord, and eliminate him. Willis dons a camouflage suit and enters the camp, looking for the opportune moment to take his sniper shot. First he must positively identify his target and confirm this with his Central Command. Getting identification and then getting into position to take his shot tests Willis’s ability to move stealthily through difficult terrain.
