Here’s a first look at the site for Ft. Edwards. It’s flat with bushes on it, in case you’ve never seen the Mojave.

Actually there are some very interesting areas and sites near Ft. Edwards and I’ll be getting some ‘NCR Patrol’ videos of the area posted this spring.

Conditional Use Permit: We need a fairly expensive Conditional Use Permit from Kern Co. ($10k or so) before we can run a commercial campground as a business, but the Ranger Basic Course and field training are intended to be free anyway.

I can have non-commercial guests at the site and we can have club business meetings, events and trainings, we just can’t charge for anything or do any actual business at the site.

My goal with this site is to build portable building and use tent-based resources as much as possible, not to skirt any local building codes, but because this is not a permanent residential facility.

This is a 2.5 acre club playground for post-apocalyptic-themed outdoor skills training. We don’t need buildings for any of that.

Ft. Edwards Timeline

January 2026: Start building airsoft ranges and initial bunkers and developing our first training videos

Beyond that, it’s all about using portable buildings and developing a tent-based facility where we can run immersive milsim events.

I don’t intend to build anything permanent on this site and when we’re done with it whatever is there can be packed up and moved. You don’t need buildings to have a facility.

Watch for more videos and updates coming soon.