Sentence:  The latrine is bright white and clean to a fault, an almost garish contrast to the dark, hardscrabble forward operating base just beyond the metal doors. The two young soldiers are shaving at the long line of sinks and mirrors. One says, "Man, I had a dream last night I was in the <WSD>shithole</WSD>." 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A hole into which one defecates or dumps excrement.