Camp McCarran

 is a location in the Mojave Desert which serves as the New California Republic's primary military base in Fallout: New Vegas. The base can be found directly south of the Strip North Gate and south-west from NCR Sharecropper Farms.

Background
It is located in the pre-War McCarran International Airport outside of New Vegas. The NCR soldiers operating here have only limited contact with the NCR at Hoover Dam. Camp McCarran is the largest NCR base in the area and serves as the headquarters of NCR military in the Mojave and New Vegas region. The site was chosen because of its close proximity to the Strip and its easily defensible location, and also because under the Treaty of New Vegas, Mr. House agreed that NCR can have a major military presence there. The camp has several companies of soldiers stationed there, and covers the most area. Major problems that is currently suffering from include frequent attacks from the Fiends and being infiltrated by a spy from Caesar's Legion.

Layout
The airport is mostly intact, having only suffered superficial damage from wear and tear. The NCR has converted several of the guard posts into sniper nests, and the parking lot in the center into a barracks with sleeping, medical, supply storage, office, mess hall and recreation tents set up as well as firing ranges. There are also several derelict supply trucks parked around the barracks tents. The tents closest to the camp entrance are occupied by the NCR 1st Recon, while the rest of the tents used by regular NCR soldiers. Some beds, such as those used by 1st Recon, may be used by the Courier without penalty.

The Camp McCarran Terminal Building is very large, housing a science lab, an interrogation room, supply rooms as well as quarters and office space for senior NRC officers. The Terminal foyer contains rows of non-operating slot machines in front of the reception desk, and a military aircraft hanging overhead. A hallway guarded by NCR soldiers on the second floor leads to the concourse, designed as a central hub with three halls at 120 degrees to each other. The Concourse houses a recreation area of sorts, with a mess hall and kitchen and dozens of non-operating slot machines. One of the hallways leads to the Camp McCarran Supply Shack run by Sgt. Daniel Contreras. The outer wall has sniper towers and the control tower. The pre-war monorail is still fully functional and allows quick and safe transport between the camp and the New Vegas Strip. However, only military personel and VIP's are allowed to use it. The Courier will be allowed to use the monorail if he/she wears an NCR uniform or have good reputation with the NCR.

Quests

 * Dealing with Contreras
 * I Don't Hurt Anymore
 * The White Wash
 * Three-Card Bounty
 * I Put a Spell on You
 * Classic Inspiration
 * There Stands the Grass
 * Bounty Killer
 * Not Worth a Hill of Corn and Beans
 * Retrieve the Corpse of Ranger Morales
 * Poor Meat Never Makes Good Soup
 * I Could Make You Care

Appearances
only appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Notable Loot

 * La Longue Carabine: A unique version of the Cowboy Repeater can be found in Camp McCarran, carried by Corporal Sterling: Killing him for the rifle will forfeit I Don't Hurt Anymore.
 * Sniper Rifle: On top of one of beds in sniper's tent.
 * This Machine: a unique rifle, can be obtained as a reward for the unmarked quest Dealing with Contreras.
 * Skill magazines in some of the tents, but taking them is a loss of karma except 2 Fixin' Things, Milsurp Review, and ¡La Fantoma! won't cost karma in the middle tents on the west side.
 * Cram Opener: A unique bladed gauntlet, carried by Little Buster.

Also lots of Good Medical items can be found in a big tent on the East side of the tent area.

Behind the scenes
McCarran Airport is a real airport in Las Vegas.

For Legion Couriers
Camp McCarran is the largest NCR installation in New Vegas and hence should not be approached by the Courier if the Courier's reputation with the NCR is poor.


 * The majority of NCR soldiers are armed with Service Rifles, and are capable of surprising damage when fired en masse.
 * Do not attack unless armed for a major fight.
 * This is a good way to score thousands of caps and equipment, however you will fail a few quests, if this is acceptable by all means try.
 * If you side with the Legion you won't have access to the quests.
 * Recommended to have followers to fight.

Bugs

 * For some reason, sometimes your companion may not follow you on the main area of the Camp, even if you didn't tell them to wait. To fix, just enter on the terminal building, fast travel, or exit the camp.


 * After a while in the camp, first recon may attack ED-E for no reason. [EDIT](different user) Also, afterwards, when ED-E went unconscious the 1st Recon NPCs ran up and it looked like they were taking inventory from its 'corpse' (they did the 'crouching and taking' animation, needs confirmation on if anything was actually taken). They will continue to stay hostile at ED-E attacking as soon as it revives. They will not become hostile to you or any other companions if you do not attack back. Waiting 1 day while ED-E is unconscious, even inside the camp, seems to stop the NCR troops from attacking him. [EDIT](different user) I told ED-E to leave party, and return to Lucky 38 and they destroyed him, this was NOT on Hardcore mode, it was on normal. I reloaded my save, told him to leave when no one was attacking. [EDIT] (different user) All companions can die if not in your party, even on normal.


 * Outside of the room with Colonel James Hsu, it is possible to become stuck inside the Sunset Sarsaparilla vending machine next to the Nuka Cola machine.


 * In the room inside the Terminal where Silus is being interrogated, if you have Rex or ED-E as a companion he may get locked in the room when you leave. However he will appear with you again after some time.


 * Whether the bug or not, Veronica can attack lone NCR trooper or two guards as well. - needs to be confirmed. Both happened to me inside terminal, when no other NCR was in sight. Ended up fatal to NCR, didnt result in loosing karma/reputation and didn't turn hostile any others. Some comments she was making regarding NCR as a Brotherhood of Steel member and failed Helios One defence.Sometimes when veronica says "for the Brotherhood" when fighting near NCR troopers they instantly start attacking her.


 * If you attempt to repair the food processing machine in the NCR mess hall using the conventional method, a prompt will tell you that you do not have all of the required items, even if you do. Try stealing an extra pot and you can successfully fix it (there is one on the oven next to the processor). Due to a bug, two pots are required to be in the players inventory even though only one pot is used to fix the processor.


 * Game freezes while going to talk to Major Dhatri taking Cook-Cooks head for bounty collection.*


 * Game corrupts save while saving at Camp McCarran, during the quest to kill Motor-Runner. Saving in front of it can corrupt saves and the same rule applies to any other save file made after the ones in the Camp