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Tom Embree wrote on March 24, 2021 at 10:00 pm
I was with the 42nd Ord Det (EOD) in 1970 in Bien Hoa. DiAn was in my AO. I remember getting a call on a Sunday morning from DiAn. A group of tanks and PCs were standing down, off loading ammo in the ASP. The ASP was across the street from the chapple, services were in progress. Apparently, as ammo was taken off one of the tracks, a trip flare went off, caught a box of ammo on fire. As a result of the fire and explosions in the ASP, stuff was blown all over the base. You guys gave my EOD team a full week of work. Was kind of interesting, lots of 40 MM rounds blown around. The 40 MMs were always a problem and the standard method of disposal was to blow them in place if they had been fired or otherwise involved in fires or explosions. We couldn't to that -just too many. Just loaded them into a trailer (carefully), hauled them to the range and took care of them there. High pucker-factor stuff. Anyone got any information on that ASP fire? Anyone get hurt?
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