As Bravo team is looking for an escape, Spenser sees a car parked a short distance away and says "family truckster looks like our salvation." The Family Truckster was the station wagon the Griswolds ended up with for their trip to Wally World in Vacation (1983).
The mission checkpoints for the operation to rescue Ray: Road Warrior, Fury Road and Thunderdome are titles of movies in the Mad Max (1979) series. Mad Max, Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) star Mel Gibson as Max, a former police officer in a post apocalyptic world where water and fossil fuels like gasoline have become a scarce resource. Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) is a reboot of the franchise with Tom Hardy taking over the role of Max.