Invasion Point is the first mission in the Section 8 campaign during the opening of the Battle of New Madrid with the USIF against the Arm of Orion. The level opens with a cutscene with the USIF Fleet taking fire from an Orbital Cannon Facility on the ground and the U.S.I.S. Texas deploying a Sky Crane containing the First Recon, Section 8 to eliminate threats to the fleet. The then Private Alex Corde, and his squad, led by Sergeant Hawthorne, burns-in to enemy territory and under heavy AA fire to capture the Orbital Cannon facility. They land safely and managed to take the facility by hacking the Cannon Control without any loses. Then the squad attacks an ammo storage to stop supplies to other facilities. Destroying the generators and stopping the rail system, Corde and Hawthorne proceeds