Ok I am doing this E-DE quest and I was sent to hidden bunker, don't go the Sloan way -- damn deathclaws are all over -- i went through Scorpion gulch snipered them scorpes from the cliffs ...anyways, after I left the reppconn facility where the dead paldins are, the diden valley terps took all my gear and now i can't get it back, because like an idiot i forgot to save and it overwrite my current one that i had and i'll be dammed if i am going back to do all that crap again. Where the hell is all my gear caps? and why would will they or would they not give it back if i am to do missions for them? some oen help please

Your gear it just outside the inner bunker door in a crate to your right. The Brotherhood guys tell you this.