ammo dump

In September 2017, 28,000 people were evacuated after a huge fire raged at a military arms depot in central Ukraine, while in March that same year an ammo dump at a base near Kharkiv suffered a series of explosions.

“They sound like the ammo dump blowing up.”

Dustin J. Hagglund, who led the machine-gun team, described it afterward as “an ammo dump, basically.”

Over the heads of the two Army privates, a battle for the Long Bình ammo dump and communications tower raged, the start of 1968’s Tet offensive.

And so my units were the first one into Long Binh as that ammo dump was — was being blown.