This is the third film in the Rambo series. The film opens with Colonel Trautman (Crenna) visiting a monastery in Thailand to meet Rambo. He meets up with Rambo at a temple construction site after Rambo's prizefighting match. He asks Rambo to join him on a mission to Afghanistan to supply weapons including Stinger Missiles to the Afghan freedom fighters, called the Mujahideen, who are fighting the Russians. Rambo refuses the request.