Permission was granted on all accounts. Construction material is moved from Jacobstown, where their first outpost was, and shipped to McCarran where they began clearing out rubble. They will replace windows, clean up litter, repair roads, etc. When finished, they will move on to Searchlight Airport.
Meanwhile, 120 Special Forces troops are dropped off across the Mojave Desert and parts of California itself where they roam, in groups of six, in search of slavers with very distinctive Rhean energy weapons, specifically, the DC-17m Interchangeable Weapon System that can change from high powered plasma blaster to highly accurate sniper rifle to anti-armor rocket propelled grenade.