Vegas was nice. We nearly got robbed, but it was nice. I say nearly because the guy realized that two of us had M4 rifles, one had a shotgun and Eivan (I apparently misspelled his name and he wouldn't talk to me for four days)..well Eivan has more handguns and grenades on him than really is practical. Anyway the guy had pulled the knife before noticing how loaded down with weapons we were, granted we weren't combat ready.

We blew some of our pay (apparently I am getting paid for this.) I got a haircut and an expensive shave at the hotel because, well why not. Closest shave I've ever had.

Drove to Nellis AFB first to get any intel we could. They weren't even hit with an airburst because of Trump's Air defense network, and have been living the "easy" life ever since hostilities with the chinese broke out. Whoever's in charge is holding them in reserve here, and the only harassment has been the occasional Chinese scouting plane, but the trump guns automatically draw a bead on it and start firing after it fails FoF identification, which the chinese then book it out before they can be shot down.

They have no idea why the sandstorm is just sitting on black mountain.. but we're headed there to find out and turn the array back on. Which brings us to today. We're within a mile of the access road. Storm is blocking out the sun and shrouded the mountain, and rotating like those awesome youtube videos of the thunderstorms in Kansas. We'll see how far we can make it in the humvee before we have to ditch and walk the rest of the way.