‘Incident’ at north Louisiana gunpowder facility highlights Pentagon struggles

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Nearly two years ago, an errant spark inside a mill in north Louisiana caused an explosion so big it destroyed all the building’s equipment and blew a corrugated fiberglass wall 100 feet.  It also shut down the sole domestic source of an explosive that the Department of Defense relies on to produce bullets, mortar shells,

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