The Most Dangerous Job in the Vietnam War
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The so called "Tunnel Rats" had undoubtedly one of the most dangerous Job during the Vietnam War
The so-called "Tunnel Rats" had one of the most dangerous jobs during the Vietnam War: Exploring and destroying the secret tunnels of the Viet Cong.
To counter the technical superiority of the United States, the Vietcong made use of a tunnel system, which allowed them to appear and disappear almost anywhere on the battlefield.
While the upper tunnels served as communication routes, the lower levels housed entire military hospitals, supply depots and training facilities. Since the tunnel system, which spread over hundreds of miles, was too complex to be destroyed with bombs, infantry soldiers had to descend into the unknown darkness themselves.
Before doing so, they took off their equipment and armed themselves only with a pistol. Booby traps or Viet Cong could be waiting behind every turn. On top of that soldiers risked suffocation, getting lost or being buried alive in a tunnel collapse. More than a third of the 600 tunnel rats died during their dangerous mission.
Nevertheless, the tunnel rats successfully disrupted the enemy in their safe retreat, gathered information and were able to blow up parts of the tunnel system.
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How about the British tunel rats of ww1, that's worth a vid
I wonder why they US never became with a crazy military machine to flood the tunnels???? That was a very st()p1d reason to lose a battle…
Unsung heroes. God bless
Against enemy forces - " vietcongs " ? Seriously ! So who were Americans ? Bringers of " peace and freedom"
I don’t understand how men with such big balls could fit in those small tunnels
Easy, the Vietnamese people DUG those tunnels. To fight the Japanese and the French defending their country.
@@markblocker4565 I hear ya. The tunnels and those that dug them were intense. That’s why I’m more impressed with the guys who went into them without the home-field advantage.
@@PJMontoya and lost
Women can accomodate such a big boy which will fit inthose small tunnels
@@ZootedSosa capturing the country isent the objectives of war anymore
Being a 5’1 guy, I just know I would’ve had no other choice 💀
Commander: *sees you*
"Get in🌚"
As a 5’11 guy I’m glad I’m tall enough for something
6’7 here, sorry bro but uhh good luck?
Nah they’d know you were too cowardly
@@hardcoreromeo2111 alright get your ass in there then hero
My dad was a tunnel rat. 68-89. He only would talk about the war with me. I remember going to the memorial with him when I was 12. We cried the entire time. It was the saddest I ever saw my father. It started when he saw his childhood friends name on the wall. Love you Dad
🇺🇸🫡 salute to your dad.
Lost
respect
He sounds like my husband so much. I'm not sure if my husband was a tunnel rat all I know is he had nightmares about being in tunnels over there and rats all around him.😢
Respect to your husband.
I've been to the Cu Chi tunnel systems in Saigon, which is the one displayed above. These tunnels can go below 12m below the ground and tourists are allowed up to a 6-10m. The tunnels have been expanded since the war by 30%, which means it was much smaller during the war. At that time the members of the VC were small and malnourished meant that they could easily fit in the tunnels unlike anyone else. For ventilation the VC dug vents into the ground and made them shaped like anthills and put corpses of American soldiers around it so that the trained dogs of the US Army can't sniff them out and allow the army drop in chemicals. The VC also dug out tiny vents to shoot from so that the Americans can't trace the shooters and attack them. The VC's creativity and intelligence in guerilla war was truly mind blowing for me. If you ever go to Vietnam, I recommend you to visit these tunnels for sure! Truly mind boggling!
That can’t be it’s actual name
Alright so it's called cu chi ?
yep its cu chi, check it out
Wow man! Stuff that most people including myself didn’t realize. God bless our Veterans!
These tunnels could date back to the Japanese occupation or even further back but during the French Indochina war they really came into their own.
That photo with the guy holding a suppressed revolver is pretty cool
It is a nagant revolver which is one of the only revolvers that can suppressed
Cool but very ineffective.
Not sure why he'd want only 6 shots eather.
@@giovannicastro1225 frankly every revolver should be capable of being suppressed if you ask me
Its actually called a silencer
@@Seven-Vials-W I don't think that's right
My buddies grandad did like 5 or some insane amount of tours in Vietnam as a tunnel rat and made it back alive
Wow
@@GB3770 id be done after 1.. my brain wouldn’t be able to take anymore
@@andrewevans7992 same. And it’s not even the fear of getting shot. I’m more scared of the cramped spaces and getting stuck or buried alive. I’d rather they shoot me 😂😂
@@xdmztryvsvedine2773 it's not the fear for some people
just what you would have seen
So sad to send these men into a war that was created and started by our own government leaders. DISGUSTING!!! Gulf Of Tokin! Morrison.
I had a very good friend that was our tunnel Rat, We were in a 6 man C.R.I.P. Team in the Chu Chi area. I was the Combat Medic for our team, My friend was shot in a tunnel, I had to go into the tunnel and get my friend out of there, He was hurt very bad and died 2 days later in the Hospital. He was a very brave man,
😮😮😢😢 😠 😡 😤
May his soul be blessed thank you for your service
Thank you for your service, Mr. Lundy.
mate stop lying for yt likes
😳😔🙏🙏🙏
I worked with a tunnel rat. His anxiety of small places was so bad he walked up and down 7 flights of stairs multiple times a day.
He always sat by an open door in any room. He was a wonderful man but he had many psychological issues as a result of his role in the war.
This what happens when u try to steal others freedom
Shove it. Those communist weren’t trying to free anyone. They were enslaving the country. Why do you think millions left be north to live in The south when given the option. Nobody wanted communism there except VC. Not even north villagers.
ценю твой рассказ.Нравятся фильмы о тех временах.
@bobvaldez8986 touch grass. You know real life is an actual thing and stuff happens? So crazy, hard to believe right?!
@@freddymansour2564CCP bots are everywhere sheesh
I bet none of those men were related to any senators
George Bush was a bad ass when he served in ww2 as a pilot
@@wholeass83 a pilot would be way easier then infantry on average
@@wholeass83 Now John mccain a badass
@@dowhatiwantc7637 bush was shot down and captured by the Japanese. The pow camp he was at was cannibalized by the Japanese before they were rescued
@@dowhatiwantc7637 that's actually wrong you had a greater chance surviving infantry then pilots. Most pilots didn't make it out. Look it up if you don't believe me
Not to mention the traps, snakes, scorpions, spiders, you couldn’t pay me to do it.
“If the sky speaks American,the trees might speak Vietnamese”
American isn't a Language.
My grandfather was a tunnel rat. They said "if you're scared of spiders, don't look up"
He had his legs blown out from under him 3 separate times. When he wears shorts you can see where chunks of muscle are missing.
Eesh 😬
Wow
He sustained those kinds of injuries and wasn't rotated out to Japan for medical treatment and rehab. and then home. Something is wrong.
@@josephdowling3745 They were a whole different breed.
He's probably the kindest man you'll ever meet. But everyone in the family knows he's the most badass mf any of us know.
Edit: btw I don't know the actual story behind how it all happened. He doesn't really talk about it.
Yeah, why they s kept sending him out.
I know a man named Bob Gabriel who was a tunnel rat. To this day he has trouble sleeping because he told me he would wake up thinking that he was still down in the tunnels
Poor thing. 😔
Reminds me of Tommy Shelby
Dad that sounds scary as hell.
😩 That must be terrible
respect 🙏
Respect Vietnamese people are the nicest people
Vietnamese people are the nicest people I have ever met.
They are very nice. Humble and hard working and they have the best food. Very clean
True. Except when you are crossing a street. Also true.
Has nothing to do with this video but okay.
@@LuciferTheDogKillerits the vietnam war lul
To strangers, that's definitely true
My grandpa was an Irish immigrant. He looked like Mickey from Rocky. He was a tunnel rat. He did not come back the same person
This war is literally the definition of "winning the battle but losing the war"
how losing lol
@@partyvietnamcommunist4829 The USA lost the Vietnam war you don’t know history or something?
Holy this got a lot of likes
We never lost the war in Vietnam. We accomplished exactly what we were sent there to do...which was to set up a permanent military presence and absorb Vietnam into the New World Order.
Mission accomplished.
@@jcdenton4621What???
@@partyvietnamcommunist4829 how do you not know this
When I was like 20 years old I worked at K-Mart and we got a new store manager. He was like 4 foot 10 and no bigger then a 12 year old boy. He was a tunnel rat in the war he had some crazy stories about his experiences. You could see it in his eyes that he wasn't all there anymore but he was a real fair guy and could tell a good worker from a bad and I liked him for that. I worked my ass off and he appreciated it one of the best bosses I ever had.
What
I too have met Tunnel Rats...incredible guys! Good Men.
@@jin_cotl are you slow?
I can't imagine anyone coming back from a war without heart wounds. Soul sounds. War is a HORRIBLE thing. 😕
@@odeefromdawic No, but soldiers who went to support France's slavery of Viet Namese people were...
Proves once again that battles can be won with ferocity of spirit rather than sophisticated machinery
What are you talking about? The US lost the Vietnam war, withdrawing. They didn’t win.
@@willcritical7242he meant that the Vietnamese won without sophisticated machinery
@@MarkoVuckovic32 Now it makes sense. Thanks.
Vietnam undefeated 🗣️🔥🔥🔥
Still pretty cute that people think this.
The technological different or spirit was not that wonderful then the war.
It was political incompetence, ho chi was not a stalinist and trusted America’s over the USSR.
Hell people don’t even know about laos when talking about Vietnam.
The Vietnamese saved their people from foreign invasion. Their example shows that the human spirit can never be conquered, no matter how long you persecute
Well war crimes can be ignored
I applaud all races for their survival but that war was pure hell on earth for both sides...i hope we never have to fight like that again...both sides showed how much we wanted to live😢😢😢😢
Well Hamas are copying Vietnamese these days , Vietnam lives in every society opressed by colonizers!
The communists of Vietnam just wanted to usurp power from the government of the Republic of Vietnam and they used every trick, including the lives of children.
BS. Supported by Russia and China North vietnam started a war against the south and the US intervened against that. The communist Vietnamese were committing atrocities all the time, the US did not fight a one sided war
My Dad was a tunnel rat .he never talked about that part of him life , but my uncle declared him a badass.
Whether or not your uncle said it. Tunnel rats were strictly volunteers. If your dad was a tunnel rat he was definitely a badass.
Or a murderer
@@adrishroy8240 beats being a coward
@@richardsommers2766 very fine line between cowardice and self preservation. And no they’re not the same thing.
@@csgogamer1826 self preservation when lifes are at risk cus of it is cowardice
My grandpa was a tunnel 🐀 He volunteered. 5'4. Beast of a kid. Told me he said he wasn't no pussy and someone had to do it. Got his trench knife and shovel on my wall. Horrific stories that he went through. Rip grandpops 🇺🇸
Edit: he did pass away from cancer from agent orange. Last year. Much love everyone
God bless your grandpa….RIP Sir…
Damn, what a chad.
W grandpa
Stop glorifying war criminals. Your grand pop got what he deserved at the end
lmao
As a Vietnamese. I respect those who fought the war on both sides. One side fights for national peace, and the other side fights for their country. There is nothing wrong with a soldier serving the nation's ideals.
I am proud of our ancestors and we also respect Americans. we are the next generation and live in peace and the government teaches us to respect other countries even if they are old enemies.
If you have come to Vietnam, you can see us Vietnamese people smilingly welcoming Americans, French, Japanese...
Sorry If my English is not good
Thank you sir..much appreciated and utmost respect for you
Bro your English was very good, I also agree with your ideology, it was also very good
We visited your country last march. Very nice to see Vietnam from the North to the South.
And yes, we also visited the tunnels near Saigon/ Ho Chi Min City.
Terrible time for both: the people from Vietnam but also the soldiers of the US. (and other countries)
🫡🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Yea y’all smiling bc you kicked our azzes! 😂
@@TrizzleTV😭😭😭😭
My dad was drafted right at the start of the Vietnam war. He was a helicopter mechanic with the 7nth Air Cavalry, like Col. Custer, but with helicopters instead of on horseback. The base he was stationed at was next to a really big hill, and would regularly come under mortar fire. By the time they figured out where it was coming from and sent troops to the location, the Vietcong had just disappeared. That happened all the time, and the harassing mortar fire made everyone really paranoid. Things like taking a shower were done as fast as possible, so you weren’t in there when a round lands on it. He said he never saw a single Vietcong the whole time he was in country. Much later on in the war, after my dad already came home, they finally discovered that the hill next to their base was completely tunneled out, and had been that way before the American base was even there, and actually was a major Vietcong base in that area. The Americans just moved right into their backyard. When that happened, the Vietcong chose to do nothing about it. They just sat and watched everything the Americans did, instead of engaging them. They knew everything the Americans were going to do, before they did it. We often forget that the Vietcong had been at war with the French colonists for years before we even set foot in Vietnam. They already ground one major western empire to a halt, and were more than ready to do it again. Same sh!t, different day.
I spoke to a Vietnam Tunnel Rat Veteran at lions den pub up past Cairns in QLD, his name is Mic and he is one of the most down to earth and coolest blokes I've ever met. I guess he looked death in the face and told it to stick it because he's still around, he said it is the scariest thing he's ever done for his country, hats off to you Mic.
“For his country”
Bloke?
@@ASAReborn Its an Australian slang term for the common man or ordinary person.
@@ASAReborn you need to get out more, or at least pick up a book.
@@blue3870 what
I knew a tunnel rat named Ed Ryba. One of the most soft spoken and calm people I've ever met. I miss him very much.
Where is he now?
@@tobaibihtobaibih2483 he passed a few years back.
@@tobaibihtobaibih2483 he's in hell right now
damn
@@TheGovernment482hey can you lower gas prices?
Thank you Vietcong for your sacrifice
What about the Americans and the Australians? They made huge sacrifices
@@ZWPRODUCTIONS66 Who cares about the people that could just stay out of the conflict.
Their sacrifice were so, so f in vain.
@@ZWPRODUCTIONS66sacrificing themselves r8ping and killing farmers? No thanks… 🇻🇳VIỆT NAM VÔ ĐỊCH VIỆTNAM 🇻🇳
@@TheMIEProject Farmers were probably only killed cause the Vietcong didn't use uniforms.
@@TheMIEProject all countries do war crimes, take russians, syrians, yemenis as an example
The fact the VC would live like this is amazing
The Viet Cong were small sized people so it made sense for them to be living in those tunnels with ease.
My friend big Joe Fifth was a tunnel rat.. Did 2 tours.. Became a terrible alcoholic from all the bloody horrors of that war in certain but was a good man with 4 children+ one adopted as his own..R.I.P. Big Joe
Bless his soul and wife for what she went through
Sounds like a man I can crack a beer with.
Curious how big was Big Joe? I’m sure his balls were huge but he wasn’t a big guy.
Sadly many good men come back with serious mental health issues. I remember my uncle as a kid jumping everytime a car backfired or a door slammed. I was born in 73 and as a six year old I couldn't understand why he was jittery and his eyes darted in every direction. The poor guy took years to relax. I don't think he was a tunnel rat.
@@matthewcullen1298 My dad was a C47 flight engineer. Carried Sticks (Paratroopers) towed gliders and was in relief of Bastogne - saw planes left and right getting shot down. Often came back from missions with new wholes in his plane to fix - often with tootsie roll chocolate. 20 years later in 60's he still occasionally had nightmares that would wake up house - not from aforementioned though The worst part of his job was return trips to London carrying wounded back to London seeing up close the wounded - the screams of agony of the wounded is what haunted him still so many years later.
I worked with an old tunnel rat and he was far from “right in the head.” He never talked about it yet I always had mad respect for him.
I know a guy who was a tunnel rat and I can tell you that he is not right in the head. Just by looking at their eyes you can tell.
Poor buggers, still fighting that damn war in their heads every day and every night. May they RIP one day.
Lest We Forget their service and sacrifice.
Mark from Melbourne Australia
Ex Australian Army Reserve.
It's a scary fucking movie where you know your probably going to die by a screaming demon. The ones who survived were not normal
Respect for a murderer? Wonder if youd respect someone coming on your property trying to kill you
why is everyone's relative is a tunnel rat 😆
Because this video draws their attention, and they comment on it.
Show some respect dillroddo.
Because those comments get likes. Use some logic
My first hate comments 😁
“Show some respect😎” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Because they’re lying obviously
My uncle was a tunnel rat. Got a purple heart and didn't lose a man, he refuses to speak about it
Damn.. poor guy. He must have killed some kids or women
@@rts006 Vietnamese here. Respect these men brother. They didn’t want to do what they had to. It was a draft that forced them into Vietnam. And our communist government leveraging women and kids into war labor is not an honorable thing either. U.S Vietnam War veteran was treated like trash when they got back too, when all they did was trying to survive the hell we gave them
@@tannyocean9984 Absolutely correct! Tens of thousands of people were forced to participate and die in a senseless war that accomplished nothing except mass death and destruction. The U.S has always loved to be the worlds babysitter and get themselves involved in conflicts that had absolutely nothing to do with them at all. Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan are 3 prime examples of wars that no american military forces had any valid reason whatsoever to be involved with. Sadly, Ukraine will be yet another Vietnam, except with nuclear weapons this time around!
@@timrussell1559count the Philippines in, well war is money I guess.
@@tannyocean9984 that's also a choice they had smh
You gotta give credit to them for making those complex underground passages in such a short period of time to compensate for the disadvantages.
I think they had them mostly made a long time before the American war, from when they were fighting the French
Fucking incredible. That blew my mind. I'd heard the veitkong made great use of tunnels. But had no clue how extensive it was. Super impressive system.
It's very impressive to say the least
因为越南获得了中国老师的指导。在第二次世界大战时期，中国战场上中国北方人用地道应对日本侵略者。（中国抗日战争）
Them tunnels were made long b4 the wars
God bless Vietnam 🇻🇳 and vietnamese .
This is crazy, imagine hearing bombs over your head in these tunnels and the sealing shakes dropping dirts on you.
My grandpa was a tunnel rat. Was 4’9” and basically a kid at the time. He showed me pictures and told me stories about it. The one that sticks with me is when he was captured and put in a rat cage about half his size. Face buried into his knees at all times. He was one of the luckiest guys to be rescued from that tunnel. Only to keep going into them with no choice. George Hogue is my biggest hero still to this day. He will be greatly missed.
Thats crazy he had to go into the holes again🤯
Took 50 year till Russia made a gunsuitable for this job
Ots38
Respect from Vietnam
just searched up your grandpa....
my respects bro... rip
Respect to Mr. Hogue
A life long family friend who was a tunnel rat said he carried over 20 handguns on him into those tunnels… dude was only 5’4 in height but walked 10ft tall in my eyes… Agent Orange Cancer laid him to rest on Texas Independence Day… Rest In Power Gene Dunn 🍻🤘🏻
Generally speaking a tunnel rat went into a tunnel with a flashlight, a pistol ( 45 or revolver) and a kabar (knife).
To think he died by the hands of the same army he fought for... US Wars are really a disgrace
My friend gramp who defended tunnel against rat during the war told us about his achievement when he set trap and dug many fake tunnel to fool and killed a lots of black american. Mostly tunnel rats is black, u guy forced them die.
@@tuanriccy1026 nice
he's 5'4 that's why he's able to do that, imaging if his 10ft..
My friend, Steve Foster, tunnel Rat in the big red one, Black Scarves Brigade, just died 4 days ago. God Bless Steve, RIP, you're a good man and will be missed.
Father...have mercy on us....🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I had two VC pop up about 15 feet from me out of a spider hole, they ran 15 feet and dropped into another spider hole, you had 2 to 3 seconds to shoot them, they were very talented. Had been digging these complexes since they fought the French and Japanese, about 40 years.
Must’ve been hell.
Try 20 yrs.
I was 21 years old just had my 75th,
@@claytonpeterson468 any more stories ? Sounds super interesting if you don’t mind talking about it
@@claytonpeterson468 i'd love to hear some more stories
I know an old tunnel rat, scariest man on two feet I've ever met. Thank God im his friend lol. For real tho he saw some insane shit, one mission he went in with a battle buddy and a dog. He came out 4 days later with no buddy, no dog, no light, and no ammo left. He never went back underground after that, he took over training the tunnel dogs for the rest of his deployment
That's insane.
He was there at the last stand huh? How far did he travel in that tunnel? They had limits on time and engagement. You didn't just wander around underground, performing incredible impossible feats of Valor and being the last battle hardened devil from hell to eat rocks and crap cement. You been watching too much TV or playing too many games.
@@josephdowling3745 no his friend got killed and he got lost. No Valor, just barely survived. He also refused to ever go underground again, he was happy to let other "devils eat rocks" ...
@@josephdowling3745 as far as limits on time and engagement, remember the enemy gets a vote, USA forces didn't have maps of Vietnamese tunnels and once hell breaks loose underground sometimes your "original engagement plan limits" go out the door. I may or may not watch too many movies or games, but you definitely need to touch more grass
@@josephdowling3745 lastly what impossible feat did I claim, just that he survived. No medals no parade. Just one story out of a million of hell from that war
Them:*climbing in*
Me:*shoves a lot of water down the hole*
The height restriction was under 5'5, they were armed with pistols, knives and attitude. Pound for pound, best of the best. They were the cqc instructors for the T1 Green Berets. Their life expectancy was approximately that of a WW2 tail gunner, which was 2 missions, or approximately 10 days. Huge respect for those Tunnel Rats. They deserved way more accolades than they got. That is a black eye on the US military, particularly the Army as they weren't Marines, and the US Government.
Worked with a tunnel-rat, at the railroad, a few years back. They force retired him because he had severe stuttering which prevented him from doing his duties (dispatcher). Most people stayed away from him and thought of him weird, but the dude was incredibly kind. We shared stories of combat... his were wild, and mine were tame in comparison. I did multiple deployments to Iraq (0311) and saw my fair share.
Cool compassionate story brother.
I met one years back through a friend , he was small framed , quiet and chill but he had a very dark side . We’d see in a rowboat on part of the Mississippi with his dog just sitting, my friend said , “ we leave him alone when he goes off with his dog like this . He told a story of crawling in pitch black with a knife , he heard a shuffling sound and waited . He said moments late he felt breath on his face , reached up , grabbed fabric and began stabbing until his hand was soaked and warm and “it “stopped moving . He drug a VC out into the daylight and noticed it was a small female he had completely disemboweled. May God give all these men peace .
For what you guys where in Iraq? And what's the matter with veitnam?
@@svanimation8969 Your XXX to english translator is broken, M8. Why were we in Iraq? Destabilize the middle east, implement a world banking system, and get 'the right leadership' in place. So they can be controlled, like the rest of the world, right? Vietnam (not veitnam)? Nothing is wrong with Vietnam, it was terrible, pointless war.
@@svanimation8969 so WTF is your question?
@@svanimation8969learn to speak and type, it will help you out on the internet.
These were some of the bravest soldiers, my grandpa was one and he told me about one time he came face to face with tigers rip gramps
☠️
Makes zero sense
“Bravest soldiers”..You were the enemy!!!..And your gramps lost that war!!..
@@hassanfinance7806 Scoreboard says otherwise
@@randybobandy9828 the Vietnamese put tigers in those tunnels.
I have my deepest respect for these soldiers may they rest in power
Thank God I was too young for that and thank God I am 6 ft 3 in tall ..they were some of the ballsiest people that ever lived right there❤❤
My father served 2 tours in Vietnam. 101ST Airborne/MACV he told me stories of him volunteering to go after the tunnel rats that didn't come back, as they were his friends. He saw alot of messed up things in those tunnels. Our past generations bravery is the stuff of legend.
He saw some VC turds it messed up him up for sure...
When I was in college, pledged a fraternity and moved into the frat house, two fraternity brothers, who had dropped out of college two years before, returned from tours in Vietnam to finish their education. One had been a tunnel rat and had decorated his room in the fraternity house with various items that he had retrieved from the tunnels during his tour. His room was directly above mine on another floor and often at night l could hear him crying. After graduating, he remained in the fraternity house, basically by himself, and committed suicide on about the fourth night. Until I served over there, I couldn’t understand.😢
Sincerest sympathy on you losing your brother. An inordinate number of people to whom I have been close, or with whose family members i have been close, have been suicide victims. I feel so horrible for such victims who were seriously tortured individuals, not individuals who were trying to escape justice for the suffering and/or death they had afflicted on others, and for those who have been substantially hurt/depressed enough to make a sincere attempt at their lives. Anyone whose mother didn't love them enough to have their back deserve so much compassion.
stupid unnecessary war.
As a vet from Iraq, only those who have been through the meat grinder that is war will understand his desperation to be a normal human being again. Speaking personally, death has appealed to me also.
R.I.P. NEVER ignore the signs. May just save a life.
@@andygibbons7937 You're a brave guy. Regardless of the reasons for war, the soliders that fought honourably deserve respect
Must've been an absolute nightmare for a young soldier.
Imagining being lost in those tunnels in absolute darkness and realizing “I won’t be alive too much longer”
Most of them probably kepy on in the chamber for the instance . There where snake traps spider traps flasj flood traps even collapsing traps the vietkong sometimes made tunnels easilly accesible alot weaker so the us troops would "sneak"
Into their trap and get crushed by like idk 500 tons of dirt
@@Byuuk84 so blessed that I’m not in such a major time of wore 😭
It's kind of ironic people glorify the war without considering the fact it was an invasion. It just shows the US previous generation were smarter by questioning what was going on and were against the war and knew all the horific crimes that their soldiers were doing in Vietnam despite the censor. They speak about how the US didn't really lose because vietnamese had more casualties without considering all the equipments the US had, the constant air strikes, plus the rules they violate along the civilian women of all age they ganged, the illegal weapons they've used, the civilians they counted as body count as if it was an fps game and they literally were raging and started killing civilian to augment body count vs people crying about vietnam using bamboo traps and the war crimes that were commited towards the civilian and to top up the cherry, the war started due to a stupid assumption they made.
Nvm it wasn't even the top of the cherry. The leader of the vietcong just wanted prosperity for his country and the US were just in the way instead of helping. After the war ended, he disbanded the vietcong organisation to promote unification of the people instead of making the typical dictator regime(since people think communism = evil but it isn't. It's idea is beautiful but it most of the time was exploited by evil people, while the concept of capitalism is rotten to the core but much easier to work with. Just like capitalism, communism is only an economy system meant to be temporary, the people who designed those system never meant it to be permanent as you can see the damage that capitalism is doing). Vietnam is now one of the fastest growing country in Asia considering the war ended not too long ago. And it's also not occupied by a foreign nation.
I wish I could link all the source without getting comment deleted. If you really wanna know the truth then cast your pride and saving face away and dig deeper.
@@KFC431 wait, Vietnam is growing?
I thought it was Singapur that was doing it...
@@KFC431 I love the fact that you are copy pasting this comment. I want to write something similar, but unfortunately it won't change a thing in the mind of these brainwashed people. The vietnamese should be glorified for fighting so valiantly against a superior invasive force, but sadly the media's propaganda brainwashed the sheeple into believing that the US was the one to be praised for genocide and mass murdering innocent people defending their homeland. I also admire any US citizen for thinking for himself and knowing that his country is led by imperialist tyrants.
I had the honor of meeting a tunnel rat . The stories he would tell where amazing.
Bro wtf I never knew about this, that shits crazy af. To think the us government was sending 18 year olds into those situations
The picture demonstrating what the underground bases look like is absolutely insane.
No wonder we lost
Yea, most of the tunnels were built by France
@@JohnDoe-wd8rs Vietnamese people's army built it themselves, wdym France?
@@JohnDoe-wd8rs If you meant the Japanese then it might be correct. IJA trained and raised armies from SEA colonies to guard the territory, because as the war drag on they're short of manpower and supplies just like germany in the late war.
I bet even the French didn't know about those tunnels, if they knew in the first place, they won't get their ass kicked in Vietnam before the US.
The americans found out about those tunnels first, since they have experience fighting the Japanese in jungle terrains of pacific.
The Japanese used those extended underground tunnels and fortifications in small islands like Iwo Jima, where surface barracks and supply depot can easily bombarded from sea and air bombardment so they dug a lot of tunnels.
I think you also still can find underground barracks left by the Japanese in SEA countries.
@@marshalljohnson6976 , You know nothing.
Im a Vietnamese guy with the height of 173cm and weight of 55kg, and i didnt find myself comfortable crawling inside those tunnels (I visited there twice and there are some parts of the area where u are allowed to try). It was amazing how my people digged the whole thing and lived in it, fought in it for years
You’re a little bit big for those tunnels lol
@@cezon5562 I’m Vietnamese too, he’s too big for that rat tunnels. He is just propagandized apparently.
You guys are real heroes
The fact that you don't have resentment towards Americans is sort of mind blowing
I couldn't imagine having to go in those tunnels in total darkness
Absolutely insane!!!! Hats off to these men!
My elementary janitor was a tunnel rat. God bless you Mr.gary
You know your veteran affairs is fucked when the most dangerous position in Vietnam war become janitor when retired.
why is every janitor in school named Mr Gary 😂
I tried the real tunnel in Cu Chi Tunnel in Ho Chi Min (Saigon). The space was so small & not for big sized person. It was a hell of experience.
My inlaws took me to some obscure tunnels near HCMC. I was the only western there. The tunnels were dirty with bugs. Nice experience.
Oh yea. Did that shit last week.
Definitely not for the claustrophobic.
Big respect to these guys!!! This shit is nerve wrecking. Solo versus how ever many you may encounter. This is work for men💪🏾
POV: being a civilian vietnamese and living in a random village during the My Lai and Song Ve incident
These dudes are savages and absolute badass heros. Any of them still out the welcome home gents it's been to long.
71 still here
@@speedshift5792 I don't know ow if u really r one, neither I support the war monger US but I liked ur comment even if u pretended bcz I just want to respect the valour those bravehearts had!
"Heroes" 🤡🤡🤡
I was a tunnel rat for 3 years. The image of the tunnels is a perfect representation of how they really were.
Sir. 🫡🇺🇸
3 years! You must have 9 lives. I was with the 9th infantry division in 1968 and we would just blow Them closed! And kept moving.
I salute you, sir. 🫡
Happy Veteran's Day Sir 🫡 🇺🇸
@@Tony-sj6onWhy do you destroy them? Because your homeland's invading other countries?
Hats off to my big brother , thank you for your service and my freedom 👏 👍🙏
I am proud to be a Vietnamese who always loves Vietnam✊❤🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳🇻🇳
You should love your homeland.
The Lord Jesus Christ loves you.
Such incredibly brave men…
Man that’s scary as hell on both sides of that tunnel imagine living in it and then hearing gun shots knowing you probably can’t escape the fight. Or even get the tunnel blown up and now you suffocate.
My grandfather was in Vietnam as a Frontline mechanic I'm grateful everyday that he was able to return home safely
It obviously wasn't that effective if 75% of them died to an unorganised force
My dad was a Vietnam Vet..he was a Marine in Danang was wounded and made it home.he said the US did not learn from the French..watched documentaries about the war..much respect for the Vietnamese people..and thanks to all the veterans but these men and women never came home to any parades..
You know the bigger guys were thinking thank goodness I can’t fit in there!!
That soldier with the gas mask in the tunnnel is the baddest dude I've seen all day.
wearing the M17 gas mask in broad daylight is restrictive enough (almost claustrophobic with the hood) it had to have been downright terrifying using those weak-ass flashlights we had in the '70s & '80s. You would have been better off using a candle than those crook-necked flashlights. Even with a brand new set of batteries, they were crap.
Compared to today's multi-thousand-lumen lights they're like a snuffed-out match tip.
OMG thank you for your service all veterans! My father is a Vietnam vet and this hits home for me. It is insane what war has done
Served with a guy that was a tunnel rat. Little Puerto Rican guy from NYC, the stories and pics he had were head shaking real.
Took a camera with a flash on it did he? Those cameras were bulky, clumsy, and complicated.
@@josephdowling3745 the pics were engagement aftermath shots or VC atrocities. One where the VC hacked off the arms of the recently inoculated. Another one made my skin crawl, he is standing on a pile of heads of some locals killed by the VC and he was holding a head in each hand. Saw the damn pictures. The story that haunted him the most was a tunnel run where he said he couldn’t see a damm thing but could feel a turn in the tunnel and could hear noises and breathing, told them in Vietnamese to come out and when they didn’t he stuck his 45 around the corner and fired about 6 rounds. After some time and no noise he peeked the corner and hit the flashlight. It was just a women and young child that were hiding, now dead….live with that the rest of your life!
No way I could have done that, hats off to those guys, that's some heroic shit
Little men
BIG COURAGE 🤠
My buddies dad did two tours as a tunnel rat. Man, the stories he told.
These are the same dudes that wake up screaming and punch holes in walls when getting water at night.
is that supposed to be funny?
@@hoytereed7698 who was laughing
Very funny.
@@hoytereed7698 man you’re just waiting for a reason to be pissed off😅 chill out dog
All for a government that gives less than 2 fu*ks about them lol but hey god bless America
More than a third of the tunnel rats died dong this.
I salute you for you bravery.
What is brave about going to another country and killing the natives for having another mindset? Was the US succesful tho? And how were villagers a threat to America?
@@kwaimin141 right it feels wrong to be proud of that
@@kwaimin141 That last question in your comment is laughably stupid. What do you think Vietcong were?
Much respect. Terrifying stuff. Only tunnel rats in modern times are subway commuters.
Being 190cm tall and weighting 95-100kg in the Army has it's ups and downs. I would have hated this type of work and I would not be made to do this, but on the low side, I always wanted to be in a tank crew, and back in the day they used T-72s and always selected the smaller guys as that thing is like a coffin on tracks for 3 guys.
I worked in a assisted living facility for seniors who were in Vietnam and they all told me the same thing. Once you send a man down there…that’s probably the last time you’ll ever see him. 😢
I used to board with a Australian soldier who was a tunnel rat in Vietnam, he was actually buried a few times due to using explosives in the tunnels but never made it in time and was dug out by other troops he was nearly completely deaf due to the explosions.
I know a tunnel rat. He's the kindest person I ever met. He said he just did what he needed to win.
I salute these men fr cuz that's some scary ass brave shit🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
Imagine you need to descend into a dark tunnel miles long with no light, no armor, no nothin except a pistol. And find an unknown amount of enemies who are just waiting for you to show yourself. That shit is a real life horror game. Especially if you’re claustrophobic.
You are not kidding
Most did not have body armor like today's vets. We wore fatigues.
@@95SLE I'm sort of claustrophobic.. you guys are better men than I... We have much respect for you guys
check the first image
and the one after the revolver one
When I seen this for the first time it was a movie I couldn’t believe it I’m just glad I wasn’t the one climbing in the tunnel I don’t think I could’ve done it for nothing God bless everyone I had to do that war is evil
Me either man, but if you didnt do what you were told you were killed by “accidental friendly fire”
There were special American troops who could and went down into those claustrophobic tunnels not the big guys.
Good god bless you
Small frame soldiers can fit.big balls 😅
Bro got America and Vietnam flashbacks
The fact ordinary Vietnamese farmers were able to make intricate tunnel systems is amazing
Yes..and they eventually won over the worlds most powerful nation... I was there in 64/65 Nam
@@thomasmorea333 I think soldiers like you are some of the bravest in earth sucks innocent people got caught up fighting a political war for the American gov
They were the labor, not the planners, tacticians, or military leaders schooled in strategy etc.
It's not hard to believe. About 40 or so percent of men have above average intelligence. And you have to be pretty intelligent to be a successful farmer.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
theres some missed facts, tunnel rats were all volunteers and you could choose what weapon you wanted to take, but a pistol was suggested since trying to squirm through a hole barely big enough to put your shoulders in with an M16 is a mighty difficult task
Also it doesn't mention some of the first Tunnel rats were Australian Engineers, they were the first to discover just how complex the tunnels were. They had a great relationship with their US counterparts. The Americans supplied a lot of excess equipment to the Australians. 🇦🇺
I personally know an older man who fought in this war. He was about 5’5 in height and He said he would have to go in these tunnels to see what he could find. He said all he had was a pistol and radio and as he found something he would radio back to the other US troops what he found. The ones who went in those tunnels weren’t expected to come back.
Average soldier in the Pacific (WWII) saw 23 days of active combat a year. Vietnam Vet saw 270. You’d have to have served almost 30 years in WWII to see the same combat these boys did.
Respect for our Vietnam Veterans.
My professor in school served as a tunnel rat he had some crazy stories
Worked with a fella who did this. He had no hearing beyond knowing someone wanted his attention, even with hearing aids. He said that a grenade was thrown at him and he kicked it back around the corner in time to save his life but not his hearing.
My father almost got drafted to this war but right before he was about to drafted the war ended
When the enemy lives inside tunnels then you can be sure that you are fighting an unjust war.
Confined space is no joke and not for the faint of heart on its own. Now add combat and boobie traps to it is straight up hardcore.
When you see my dad you would understand how. I’m going to post his photo as a tribute on one of my next videos. RIP Pops 12/07/17
how will I know you posted your video 🙄
@@ronnierodriguez7841 I put a Post of him in the Community section of my channel. Thank-you for reminding me.
Mfs out there were doing Metal Gear Solid missions with just a revolver
my mothers, best friend had a son who was a tunnel rat during Vietnam. I had the biggest crush on him when I was a little girl. He was always smiling and laughing, and was so cute! I bumped into him in a bar years later. He was not the same person. The only time he talked about Vietnam was when he was drunk. He seem to spend a lot of his time that way. The stories he told were unimaginable! It was difficult to believe that it actually happened. It was so horrible. Not just in the tunnels, but in general. In the end, he committed suicide. A lot of people seem to have forgotten about Vietnam. I have not forgotten that time or him. I ended up, married to a man whose brother had been in Vietnam. He never talked about it, to anyone, ever.