Originally Posted by Podaddy

The reason for the weird clearance is because of that little old AFB that was sitting off your nose on the descent. The Moa's surround Laughlin AFB and are stacked one on top of another. It's been a while but the 15K foot level off was to put you between the high and low areas. The other guys are right about building the point on the radial in the box. If you were in range and, a military guy, you would be doing a fix to fix direct (old school, use the box). Look at the approaches into Laughlin. The controller was probable getting you out of the way for the arrivals and not trying to make you work. The base is incredible busy with low time student pilots flying jets in close proximity to each other. If you fly in there often watch out. They have three runways, Moa's everywhere, aux fields and they are all busy all day long.