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Fort Constantine is a rather large outpost and ICBM launch facility in the north west of Capital Wasteland, between the SatCom Array NW-05a and SatCom Array NN-03d. It is heavily guarded by Sentry Bots, Mister Gutsys, Robobrains and Protectrons (inside and out).
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The area contains three buildings:
The doors to the Bomb Storage (Warhead Storage) are both locked (Very Hard), but the Bomb Storage basement can be alternatively accessed through an underground path in the cellar of the CO Quarters. Unfortunately, the Fort Constantine Bunker Door can only be opened with Ted Strayer's Special Key and cannot be lockpicked. Also, the only access to the T-51b Power Armor is through this pathway, as you can't open the door from the other side in the Bomb Storage, because Tara holds the key. However, the cellar grants access to the Launch Control Bunker, eventually leading to basement of the Bomb Storage. The door to the Bomb Storage requires Dukov's Special Key. In here is Tara's corpse, (which holds the Warhead Storage Key), two Very Hard locked doors, and a door (can only be accessed with Dave's Special Key) on the opposite side which finally leads to a room with the T-51b Power Armor.
The Personnel Offices building serves no relevant purpose, except some minor loot and an edition of Grognak the Barbarian.
Not much is known about Fort Constantine, except that Allistair Tenpenny hired 5 mercenaries — Mister Crowley, Dave, Dukov, Jeff Strayer, and Tara — to retrieve a weapon from the Fort. It is unknown what weapon Tenpenny was after, but it was possibly the "Fat Man" or the T-51b Power Armor. In the Bunker, Tara was killed by a group of feral ghouls and Crowley was locked in the same room; this was where he supposedly later found the T-51b Power Armor, leading to his obsession over it. The rest of the group, knowing Tara was dead and thinking of Crowley as Feral Ghoul food, went their separate ways.
Years later, Mr. Crowley, now living in Underworld (it is unknown how he escaped Fort Constantine), gives the Lone Wanderer from Vault 101 the quest You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head. The Lone Wanderer must find all the other surviving mercs (Except for Jeff Strayer, whose son, Ted Strayer, holds the key required by Crowley) and shoot them in the head, then return the keys.
The player is free to either kill or not kill every target, and still complete the quest. Choosing not to kill a target means the player must lie to Crowley to collect the original bottlecap reward; However, if you tell Crowley that you failed to kill the targets because he lied about them being bigots he will offer a larger reward for the return of the keys. There are scripted ways to receive every key without losing karma, provided the stat/skill checks are passed.
After the player has all the keys, several choices are available as to how to complete the quest and collect all (or most) of the loot, with different potential reward and karma tables, and Crowley either alive or dead when everything is said and done. (See the quest article: You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head) As stated by Dukov, Tenpenny sent the five mercenaries there to retrieve a weapon.
The CO Quarters contain the Fort Constantine Launch Codes stored in a small safe in the cellar next to the Big Guns Bobblehead. These can be used to launch the ICBM in the Fort Constantine Launch Control Terminal in the Launch Control Bunker. After attempting to launch the ICBM, the launch terminal reports an error and mentions that the missile's tracking system is damaged and the navigation data is corrupted.
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