The mission markers for the mission in Venezuela: Bronson, Garner, Mcqueen, Graf, Reiser, Alverty, Coburn, Mikell, Kiwe, actually refers to actors Charles Bronson, James Garner, Steve McQueen, Robert Graf, Hans Reiser, Karl-Otto Alberty, James Coburn, George Mikell and Til Kiwe. These actors were in the The Great Escape (1963).
About a third into the story, the classic building engulfed in black smoke is the Hellenic Parliament, in the Capital City of Greece, Athens. The footage is from actual TV coverage.
On Ep11, at 26:25, there are some rioting scenes from Caracas, Venezuela. Actually, those riots are real and happened in Greece, while the government was voting the agreement with EU and IMF. The building that is displayed as parliament is the actual Greek parliament at Syntagma Square in the center of Athens and the monument below is the famous "Unknown Soldier" monument.
Home Wrecker - Slang term for a thermobaric fragmentation grenade. These kind of grenades generate a massive heat/pressure wave that can both vaporize anyone in the blast radius and bring down a building.
The mission markers in the training exercises seem to be derived from the characters in Cool Hand Luke (1967): Luke, Dragline.