Ranger Morales' Corpse

Ranger  is both a body and a place in the Mojave Wasteland. It will be added to your map when his wife, Christina, asks you to save his body from the mercies of the Wasteland in an unmarked quest.

Walkthough
The free quest is given from Christina Morales. She is located on the concourse of Camp McCarran. She will explain that her superiors are not willing to look for her husband. She will not directly ask to find her husband. If accepted she will give you a map marker.

The map marker (and Morales' corpse itself) is located in the middle of a square of buildings. Fiends are stationed on top of these buildings, and the area around them is booby trapped with Frag Mines and rigged shotguns.

Before you retrieve the body, head northwest from the marker to a small, two-man NCR Roadblock (not marked on map). If you look at the map, locate REPCONN Headquarters, then look at the road that makes a loop around it, the two-man post is at the apex/top of that loop. In order for the quest to complete properly, you need to approach the roadblock before retrieving Morales' body (but you can kill the Fiends before or after).

After killing the Fiends, you can loot his body. He has NCR Ranger armor, an NCR Ranger hat, and some bottle caps along with an NCR Dog Tag. You must grab his body (via the grab object command) and bring it northwest to the two-man NCR Roadblock (not marked on map). As you approach the road a NCR trooper will stop you and praise you. He tells you to return to Christina.

She thanks you for your work and if you had asked for payment before agreeing to look for her husband's dead body, she gives you 50 caps.

Layout
 is slightly to the northeast of REPCONN Headquarters.

There is a building with fiends around it and on the roof. In the small courtyard (building makes a U shape) the body is located.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * His body can sometimes fall through the terrain or get stuck. If this happens find a nice spot of ground that's flat with no road(such as just west of the building).  Open the console with


 * He will be blinking when you find him.


 * When you find him his eyes will be open, and he will blink occasionally as if he were alive.

Behind the Scenes
When the two NCR troopers at the roadblock stop you, the second response option you get is "I made a promise to Private Morales." This line and the whole quest could be seen as a reference to the Western film "|The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" (2005)