It was funny, but kind of unfair to the game itself, I mean yes they were in Eindhoven, but one of their team was lost inside the city, he shouted stand in the door because that's the procedure and your not really allowed to skip it, they all look the same because they are all white males between the ages of 16-35 wearing the same clothes and he sits down instead of going on because he is suffering from ptsd, which is one of the things I like about this game, the PC is not some all knowing elite supersoldier, but someone with very real limitations.
All of the events in the jumps are explained either in this game or the previous two. It would probably be better to think of this as a mid game cutscene rather than an intro.
Oh and the goggles on the helmet, how the hell did I not see that when I was playiing the game?!