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Just signed up for this site. Regarding latrine duty: early in his 12 month tour in vietnam my brother "screwed up", as they say in the Army, so was assigned "latrine duty." Just like that scene in Oliver Stone's film "Platoon" he had to burn the shit that had been deposited in the tops & bottoms sawed off from oil drums. First he had to pour diesel oil on the poops then some gasoline & ignite it. I guess burning didn't reduce the odor & produced a lot of dark smoke. There's a funny scene in the second "American Graffiti" film where "Toad" disillusioned from his tour of duty in Vietnam tries to self-inflict "a million-dollar wound." His poor attitude gets the attention of his company commander who stays above harms way in a chopper while his grunts risk their lives in the firefights below. So Toad's company commander relegates him to latrine duty again & again. Later there a scene where a Congressman visits there to commend the Captain's for racking up a high enemy "body count." There's a cutting of a cake to mark the occasion so Toad see's his chance for revenge. He gather's up a load of explosives & a remote detonator & deposits the explosives in the latrine pit. As the moment arrives to cut the cake there's a big "kaboom" & shit starts raining onto the Captain, the Congressman & the cake!