Bay area, doing recon. My favorite rock is our place of residence. Cold storm front rolling in headed east.

Chinese north and east of us, we've managed to stay out of sight and mind (to them anyway) though.

Sub sighted, contact initiated. Cannot go into details but we have more equipment and new orders now. (looks like I'm more or less drafted, don't mind too much because I got a multi-spectrum scope for the M-4 out of it.)

Headed north. Probably going to have to go dark for the time being. I'll post something when I can, and give details if I can.

Camped out at an NG depot in the LA area overlooking the port.

Snow is now a foot deep, the locals are going nuts making snowmen.

Picked out some chains from the motorpool here that'll fit the humvee we have.

Haven't seen the sub, did see a whale, tempted to poke around the marina and see if we can find a boat we can use. Our orders are undefined beyond checking the places we have, so probably some weather reporting in advance of storm fronts would be useful for our guys.

From the descriptions of the sub we're fairly certain it's a Russian submarine, but we won't know unless we finally get in contact with them.

Snow... in Los Angeles...

One of those things you kinda hope for all your life to see, and then when it happens it's kinda bittersweet.  Kinda interesting to see the local populace's reaction to it.

There were people talking about a submarine that's been popping up at the marina. We're going to be watching for it to see whose it is.....at range of course.

Barstow got hit hard.

That's about all you can say. in the LA area now poking around finding troops and sending them north. Kind of organized chaos down here.

Went back to China Lake and grabbed some portable gear to set up a temporary sms network to relay information back north.

Anyway saw a small search plane headed out towards the area we designated this morning. Anyway headed south again. Next stop Barstow.

At fort Irwin, place got cleaned out, at least they left a note on a wall in spraypaint... though how we're going to find them is another matter. We've got  encoded SMS systems working in some areas, but this far south reception is a crapshoot. We've got a working radio, but well.. I don't want to broadcast the information of what area the soldiers of Irwin went into in an unsecure way.

"Leaving Fort Irwin, taking gear with us, off into mountains to the east. Electronics are fried. Map on commander's desk is bugout location. Nov. 20 2012"

We did find a few grave-sites in the parade grounds. The base is mostly intact, and most of the desert is sand and dirt around here, it looks like most of the bombs hit to the west of here. Staying the night, then on move to where we have reception to get a secure message out for a search of the area for the fort Irwin soldiers. Hope they're ok.