The issue is that surely they're still in communications with the OG's over west, who likely picked up the radio and went "What? You're helping a fucking radio DJ?...DISTRIBUTING WATER!? YOU DID "WHAT" WITH A GECK!? YOU'RE FIRED"
There'd be a Verti-Assault team sent over to kill the leadership.
West Coast Brotherhood was likely too busy not dying in California to send Paladins on a cross country suicide mission against a fortified military installation in an area they have almost no Intel on.