Why Vietnam War TUNNEL RAT Job Was so DEADLY
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- During the Vietnam war, Americans had to adapt to the Viet Cong's guerilla and trench warfare styles, and thus the Tunnel Rats were born! Check out today's video to see how deadly the life of a tunnel rat was, from avoiding and detecting land mines, to knife fights inside the tunnels! You don't want to miss this insane story of the tunnel rats! Watch this special animated history episode!
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When I was kid I cut grass for a guy that was tunnel rat. I was aware what the job was and how dangerous it was from reading. In my youthful ignorance I asked the man what it was like. His response, I still remember over 25 years later: “I dunno man, I was high the whole time.”
Its still the most Vietnam vet thing I’ve ever heard.
That's actually very interesting. Being high might be one of the very few means of stowing away such horror.
r/madlads
@@justicetaylor3050 are you saying stow like to bury those feelings during or after?
@@RJ-mh3ox during
His was high so it wasn’t as painful when he died
"We need new tunnel rats"
500 dudes start furiously lifting weights. "Sorry too big."
This coment made my day 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@brayansobral8313 And I honestly don't even remember posting it.
@@DutchFurnace bruh it's 1 day ago how can you forget it
@@levanhoro716 all those Dutch ovens had him in a fugue state at the time
Sorry just ate 20 Mcdonald's meals
My husband was 5’3”. He was drafted in Vietnam war. He weighed 115 lbs. they made him go in the tunnels once. He said they could put him in stockade but would never go in the tunnels again. He won two bronze stars for his bravery. Said the tunnels were what nightmares were made of
He sounds like he was a very brave man
My dad was a tunnel rat with the Australian army, he never talked about his time in Vietnam and it wasn't until I was in my 30s that I even found out he was in Vietnam.
He then only told me a couple of stories . I have pictures of him though from when he was there. This made me understand more why he never spoke of it. My dad was a very brave man. I miss him loads.
I hope your dad had a good, free of trauma life after returned home.
My condolences
Your Dad belonged to a very special kind of guys. All my respects to him.
And your feminist mentality says your entitled to respect for the man that birthed your father.....or birth you...
@@martinyazzie3734 what
Seeing these tunnels in real life is terrifying, the traps they made are scarier and more complex at the actual site
tell more?
MORE!MORE!
Please explain more
the traps they made have really weird contraptions like stepping on a pressure plate jams more spikes into your sides
I am so proud of my country, Vietnam, how could they do the impossible, defeat the U.S.
when you sneeze in vietnam and the trees say bless you
*hol up*
Thank you tree wait 😑
"bress yuuh"
WAiT HOL
It's like that scene from bnha when midoriya had a weird encounter with mirio. Iykyk.
"CW Bowman is gone and he's not coming back." that man sacrified himself to save two of the best soldiers i've ever seen in my entire life.
I am in Vietnam and I'm also sorry for him. I hope the war will never happen again.
@@IDespratelyNeedCoffee Bowman is from call of duty BO1 if you know
@@LeafyyTree he said sorry
Ngl I still get sad seeing bowman get killed like that on BLACK OPS 🥺💯
@@seanxclusive yep sad
I know the feeling when they said, somebody's gotta do it. I was that someone in Iraq. When he mentioned that 33% I think the scariest moments weren't even the mission itself on patrols, it was in the intel briefings that we had to go back and tell our troops concerning the mission we are about to do. They use to tell us high fatality rates and when you relay this information to the men, everyone is looking at each other thinking....some of us wont make it back. I can't even describe the anticipation and uneasiness that everyone felt at that moment. You have to tell young kids this who enlisted and havent even drunk their first beer or voted yet. Still gives me nightmares to this day. Shout out to the servicemen and women who do the jobs a lot of people wouldn't do!
This video is inaccurate. There were over 700 soldiers who were tunnel rats and 36 of them died in the tunnels, 200 were wounded.
I'm a Vietnamese and I visited those tunnels back when I was a student. The tunnel was very small so, even as a skinny kid, even I was scared of getting stuck down there. I can't imagine how scary it is being a tunnel rat, just the thought of getting stuck and knowing that you are in enemy's territory terrifies me.
Hopefully no more war so no one have to suffer like people of the past did 🙏
What is on par with the tunnel rats bravery is the Viets themselves? they faced all the same dangers along with the claustrophobic life plus the chance of being gassed or stalked by obviously brave enemy soldiers and a plethora of other dangers, the rats visited the tunnels the Viets lived in them? both extremely brave men
@@leemichael2154 underrated comment. my exact thoughts!! They’re the ones who built them!! Insane!
@@brandonw9522 Genius construction and thinking? Human ingenuity at its finest. Obviously they had a head start after beating the French but to do what they did to the world's largest military forces is stoical and bravery in the extreme! In my humble opinion bud
This is why since the Afghanistan War this was the worst
Imagine ww3
My father was a tunnel rat. He just passed away in December. He never talked about what happened in war and kept his trauma to himself. It wasn't till the last few months that I found out he was one. I wish he would have talked about it more. He suffered severe ptsd, complications from agent orange, shrapnel on the back of his legs. In the end he was diagnosed as severe bi polar with delusions. RIP dad ❤
my grandpa fought in the viet war ! he's very private so I don't know much about him
I'm so sorry for your loss
@@sanketjagtap3303 who knows
@@sanketjagtap3303 so you wanna restart the Vietnam war?
Rip
I am Vietnamese. It's not difficult to get information about the war in my country. The US military has released a lot of Agent Orange to clear the forest. and now that poison is passed on to our present life. The US and Vietnam are making great efforts to overcome those consequences and look towards the future together
Some of the darkest events of humanity took place during that war. Great to hear that progress is being made to move forward.👏
@@glengaines4286 war is the darkest time of human history you’re spot on
@@glengaines4286 be aware of the third world war
@@lifepasses1875 Be aware of the 4th world war. Ooo lol.😂
Hmmm, now why on earth would one country poison the vegetation of another country during a war.
I am Vietnamese and I had the opportunity to visit the tunnels once when I was a primary school student. Even though I was an elementary school student with a small body, it was difficult for me to move and after about 10 minutes I started to feel panic and breathless. It was an unforgettable experience for me
Would you show that to travelers ?
My wife’s father was a tunnel rat and was a marine and came out unharmed and he was just this amazing man to be around and hear stories about he has past now but we visit his grave every year to thank him and pay our respects
Respect dude
Give him one extra thank you for me next time you go
@@NoChillJared will do man
man
No to be disrespectful, for her father was a national hero, but what do you thank him for? His time in the army, or him being a loving father and a great person?
Now we know why Rambo went crazy.
@@sammmieezmhdry6736 what
They drew first blood man they drew first blood!!
lol rambo wasnt a tunnel rat, he is still making films
Tunnel rat or no, Vietnam War was enough to make any one crazy
@@the_ultra_robot6884 u don't know Rambo?!?!!? I freaking love him
I am Vietnamese and my grandfather was farmer and working in the planing and strategy of the tunnel system and designing amount of differnt traps. The stories that he told me is just simply unforgetable.
Would you be willing to share one of the stories? Best regards
As a Vietnamese, I used to play with my grandpa when i was a kid, and he teach me how to build traps, how to use knife and poison, or even to make a hand grenade almost out of nothing, with the stuffs lying around the jungle.
And HCM was right, no matter what you do, you'll lose, there is no tactical retreat, it not the matter of winning or lose, they make sure that no one dare to come back. We may under gear, the Jungle itself is a weapon and fear is it fuel. The trap you mention was just of the many, there are more than that. And some of the trap and tunnel was build for just only to lure American soldier into it, although it made to look like someone live in it, it's not, it may serve as bomb shelter but it never used for the main force, although there are so many tunnel, it can never hold all of us, you were never found it, the main HQ, you can't, because they keep moving it and build more deco along with traps, otherwise we would lose in just 1 bombarded and the war would be continued for another 30 years. Some of the trap was even fearsome for Viet Cong themselves because of how brutal it is. Some of the trap meant to keep the soldier inside, leave just only some small holes so that his scream come out and enough air in, and keep lure in more until it was completely destroyed or you left the poor man suffer to death. We still have report that kid fall under the trap after war even to this day, although most of them were safely dismantled after war and we're all grow up playing with at least 1 of those.
I wanna know how to make a grenade out of stuff you find in a jungle
@@squirrels24seven you know that every material that needed to make gunpowder/explosive can be found in the jungle, right? Ever heard of Coconut Bomb? It literally a coconut stuffed with gunpowder not a hair product or firework. The coconut itself is one of the material to make coal and explosive too. They used very often in the VN war and Thai war, where you can just make million of them.
This is like all my fears put into one. Can’t even imagine.
who will win? one tunnel rat vs. one tunnel boi
Same
I feel ya
Hear here
@@fireeeeyisgone shud up
Almost but lol
This reminds me of the the COD Black Ops mission where you actually head down into a rat tunnel. It was terrifying to see some enemies pop out unexpectedly with Aks.
I love that game
Yeah when you hallucinate and find reznove
@@amgoose9032 same here ,I kept thinking that I could here someone
And his name was bowman
the mine at the beginning is a Bouncing Betty
My grandpa was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. He made it back, and I never heard him talk about it. He died in 2012 of pancreatic cancer. Before he died, my uncle sat him down and recorded video of him talking about his experience in Vietnam. Great video
My condolences sure he was a great person may he Rest In Peace
Proud to be Vietnamese
My grandpa also died of pancreatic cancer r.i.p he served his country
Bro got cancer from his own chemical weapon
RIP. What did he think of Muhammad Ali. I want to ask every Vietnam war vet that question
He is actually a way better story teller then my history teacher.
Well duh your teacher gets paid to teach
@@janrious7387 same goes for this guy lol
@Sku11z yep
Some corrections to inaccuracies:
-Flashlights weren't used by the best rats because it gave away your position. So they would crawl in blind using knife or hands to feel the tunnel in front of them.
-The revolver was the preferred weapon because it didn't jam - hence the 3 shot rule he talked about. If you fire more than 3 shots the enemy knew how many shots you had left in your revolver. Also they avoided using it because it would deafen you.
-The tunnels were mostly impervious to gas as well, because they would build U-traps filled with water - like how a toilet or sink plumbing works.
Thank you. You're a legend 👌
Wow
I watch your dog sleep😳
I have heard that they also used suppressed ,22 pistols(to avoid being deafened)
Going in there is death
"Only 12 Tunnel Rats survived to go back home" Everyone's dad/uncle/neighbor in the comments:
Each of those guys must have had 15 siblings, 16 children, and 250 grandchildren
long lost uncle? i thought you were dead how come you got your phone and commented this?
ikr like i dont even care what your father/uncle/blah blah did
The rats are multiplying ._.
I cannot even begin to try and count the numbers of guys I met during basic and airborne school at Benning whose uncles were snipers in Vietnam...
I thank all Vietnam Veterans. All of them went through heck...to say the least!!!!! I respect all Veterans!!!! Love all you veterans out there.
My grandfather was in the Vietnam War. I don't show him as much respect for him as I have for him. Now I have much more respect. Now I will do as he asks and follow his footsteps and join the military as soon as I am old enough. Great video by the way!
Don’t. It’s not worth throwing your life away for a government that doesn’t care. Not worth the ptsd.
“Revolver and flashlight”
*Has a flashback to the BO1 campaign mission*
*N O*
Reznov?!
That mission was terrifying as a child
And somehow Mason manage to knife using a revolver and flashlight
Swift :((
My childhood neighbor was one he would tell me his horrific stories. Youre a brave man,Phill
@@Doomguyalsotheslayer that would be so crazy
@@Doomguyalsotheslayer just like the guam soldier?
@@Doomguyalsotheslayer facts
@@Doomguyalsotheslayer the tunnels is still there, but under it was incredibly hot, you can survive there but you can't live there
@@Doomguyalsotheslayer has has a l
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My good friend was 4th Force Recon, 68-69. He was sometimes a tunnel rat. He talked about the war in his later years with no filter. Man, the things he saw, heard, and did were insane. He would say that there was a primary tunnel rat on his team named “Garcia”. Garcia would go into the tunnel and come back out with a couple extra ears on his necklace.
garcia's a menace
sounds like an amazing guy
I would love to hear about these stories in more depth. I think people have fuzzy ideas about war. If the stories were told, even as raw as they may be, this would be an important reminder of the cost of war and the actual situation on the ground.
That’s crazy. I’ve heard the ear story before. It was a vet on one video on here saying that at one point in the war, US Marines would cut ears off the enemy and hang them on their belt loops as a sort of trophy for how many men they killed, it was almost like a trend for a while…eerie stuff. Just shows how much the war affected these soldiers minds while they were there. It seems when some people are at war long enough, they can become a a different person…an emotionless killer.
Crazy reading all these comments and seeing everyone say a person they know was a tunnel rat and never talked about it shows how traumatizing it was for them
I worked with an older man at a dealership that was very short, his nickname was Shorty. I really respected him as a person, he sadly passed one day, and when we helped clear out his apartment we found a bronze star, he never once mentioned he was in the service. Come to find out he was a tunnel rat, so seeing this video brings back soo many great memories of Shorty.
Respect !
He probably has ptsd
Bottoms up to Shorty!
RIP shorty
Many vets never talk about their service. My dad never did until a year before he died.
"I am the lorax. I speak for the trees, and for some reason they are speaking Vietnamese"
havent seen comment like this in a week. thanks
in Vietnam we have talking bush
@@luyentc104 😂
In Vietnam we have talking hose and talking rock.
everybody gansta until the trees start talkin
I remember my grandfather telling me stories about Vietnam. He willingly volunteered to do two tours.. His name was Mr. Brad Matthew Baker Jr. & he was the first BLACK Vietnam War veteran to receive the purple 💜 in Greenville, SC 9/19/48-12/13/2010 rip Papa and thank you for your service.
A very scary task to infiltrate those tunnels. To be a tunnel rat would have been so intense, there are no words.
I read a book about the Viet Cong fighters spending months at a time down in the tunnels, subsisting on a handful of rice per day.....
The sheer courage and endurance of the tunnel fighters on both sides cannot possibly be overstated.
Those that fought in that war gone through so much. The Viet Cong tunnel system is mind blowing
@WaYZ Apparently it's a short version of "Việt Nam Cộng-sản" or Vietnamese Communist
@WaYZ because the Republic government runs the system in South Vietnam, Viet Cong is to call South Vietnamese who support or fought for Communist though, against the South's government. Viet Cong in Vietnamese is short for Việt Nam - Cộng Sản ( Vietnamese communist)
.....
Mindblowing...............ha........
it was also called "Victor Charlie" or "VC"
My uncle was a tunnel rat bye still has terrible nightmares 50 years after. He was “volunteered” because he was skinny enough to get through them well.
Gotta eat lots of stuff
yea my dad was an astronaut
I hope his nightmares stop
In the navy we called it volun-told
@@mario_sw20 was he? Which one?
Really Great documentary man. Respect to all Vietnam Vets!
vietnamese was real heroes. Being vastly outnumbered, suffering constant lack of resources, they managed to defeat the dark hordes, and defended their right for life and freedom. They was really wise and fearless warriors, worth to be honored as a real heroes.
The US can't deny our justice for defending our motherland, so they just downplay it by outright ignoring us and romanticize US soldiers, making them heroes in movies and films and stories.
Idk if you guys know, but in the Vietnam War, most of the American soldiers were poor, or non-white. The war was mostly fought by the underclass of the USA who were drafted while the rich could get out of it. Also, most Americans think Vietnamese people were heroic freedom fighters now :) I know Vietnamese leaders talked about the US Founding Fathers as an inspiration for Vietnamese independence, and most of the people I know are happy to have Vietnam as a friend against China!
@@IntrusiveThot420 USA is always against someone... nation of psychopaths
@@Worldowner since the beginning of recorded history there has always been a war or multiple wars going on and the United States has only been around a short time. Check your facts and while you are at it give a look at wherever you live and see what's gone on.
@@cheesegreezy9860 that's the best part. The religious fanatical worship of the US before the war. And also one of the greatest lies of US propaganda. No, for most nations in the world, war is not an ordinary part of life. Only for the USA. Also, the USA is the only country in the world, who in the 20th century not only participated in wars for more time than they were in a state of peace, but did not have a single year at all, without participating in any war.
BTW, most of the 20 century wars were started by USA, and most of the rest happened because USA sponsored them. NSDAP, Saakashvili, Hussain, Bin Laden, taliban, maydan gang, isis, Dudaev - they all were nothing but small gangs before USA started sponsoring them.
Specifically for Vietnam war - French occupation corps was also sponsored by USA for 80%, regime of dictator Bao-dai-de was also almost completely sponsored by USA, despite the fact that formally it was a puppet regime of france
Its especially dangerous when your Captain starts talking to his Russian imaginary friend
Cod black ops reference?
@@brayanq5219 yes
@@brayanq5219 Mason what the f#$k is wrong with you ?
5 secs later :
Reznov : Mason where is your friend ?
Mason : they got him
😂
🤘🏼
My grandfather felt sorry for having to fight them. Said he hated his government for throwing him and his friends lives away. Making them fight an enemy that didnt even want to fight them. He only hated them when he was there but when he got back he grew to forgive them. Dont blame the soldier, blame the man in charge.
Yes!!!
If he was so in love with the Vietnamese then why didn’t he just massacre his fellow American troops?
@@gustavo.210 ?
@@whatthepfpsays4234 judging from his name, he's not someone you should bother engaging with. Much respect to your grandfather for not letting hatred consume him.
@@gustavo.210 This is not a place for children to argue
My grandpa was a tunnel rat. He has some good stories about Vietnam. Just now realizing how brave he was.
My uncle was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. He still wakes up with horrible nightmares 50 years later. You didn’t have to be short though in all cases. I’m sure it helped a ton. He is 6’1 or so but at the time very skinny
"Snakes and painful-biting bugs"
Guns: *Am I a joke to you?*
Venomous snakes and bugs: Yes. Yes you are
Hmm, yes, the native guns crawling inside the tunnels
@@ttdrex9569 normal bugs?
@@jerryfebocolon3871 venomous bugs
Snake Shot Ammo
The vietcong soldiers are playing terraria before it's even made.
True tho
Lol
Im vietnamese
Ikr it is so popular war tactics were made after it
They are predicting the future
I’ve had the pleasure of meeting one what a great man with many good stories. He had a lot of health problems related
It’s weird how many people in the comments knew a rat tunnel lol
That's always the case isn't it
imagine being 18 years old and being drafted to go to the vietnam war just to die. crazy
Yea anyone under 30 in this once great country of ours couldn't go 1 hour without his cell phone, playing videos, eating etc.
@@vietnamvet4533 If i were drafted and lived in USA, I'm leaving the country
And somehow women were exempt from it, as if female lives were worth more than male ones instead of being equal. What a joke.
Yeah says the one making comments on a history channel video, but hats off to you and thank you for your service if you really did serve
@@nathanielb5781 Yea I was there, fun no one but on Your tube ever questions that in person, I wonder why?
How good would a "Tunnel Rat" horror FPS be, just sayin, food for devs thoughts
yo u might be onto something
or just play Vietcong 😏
Mix it with something like cannibal Vietcong I think would be sick experience
@@user-sj1lh6pm8e Nah fr though🤔
In Call of Duty Black Ops, the campaign has a mission where you need to go in these tunnels. My favorite.
Imagine living down there for months with all those creatures, Agent Orange, and shelling above. The vietnamese fighters were brave for going through all that
Absolutely amazing level of bravery from these servicemen.
Imagine being a tunnel rat, and then that one soldier throws a grenade inside the tunnel you hide in.
Just look away from the nade pretend you didn't see ,it can be a potato one
It's painless
“Thanks for the green apple-“
Stairs piano
i’m pretty sure that actually happened a few times and it was never reported
Imagine going in one and theres a whole shopping mall with people shopping and stuff
@BigfootSquad BWPP This all happened before corona was an issue 🤦♂️
@@gustavo.210 Well ill be darned. Would have never guessed.
@@Kyjuan23 I was telling the other guy because he seems to think the Vietnam war happened in 2020.
@@gustavo.210 was that a joke or are you actually serious, I’m pretty sure he knows the Vietnam war didn’t happen in 2020
Drug Store
Those tunnels are unreal, cool
Nothing but respect for these brave men who were above and beyond crazy as .......
I imagine going down the first time was incredibly hard. But going down after experiencing some of these horrors, well that must have been downright terrifying torture
Everyone: wow they had a hard job
Me: *Claustrophobia intensifies*
@TORRES KAL-EL afraid of santa claus
@TORRES KAL-EL It's having a fear of tight spaces
@@user-fq5ke5qj3h
Underrated joke
The thought of being in a small tunnel and then the tunnel just starts to shake and then it collapses on you or you see water rushing towards you or gas it would’ve terrifying
@@jaydenwilliams9719 u ruined the joke
The Tunnel Rats: "Yay! We cleared one!"
Sasquatch: "Congrats. I saw it all, but you did not see me."
? What
@@liammckinney9764 theres a part in the vid with sasquatch watching the tunnel rats
Rock apes?
I am glad I saw it too
Sorry the vietcong is in another tunnel
Shout out to all the little guys out there! I would never mess with a rat terrier, and I would never in a mess with the little dude like you!
Shout out to "Big" Al Parks of Tacoma. Worked with this badass in Federal Way and enjoyed his tunnel rat stories. Dude caught hold of a live venomous snake at the entrance to a tunnel with his bare hands. After they killed it, he started back in and his friend made his ears ring by firing next to his ear (at the 2nd venomous snake that had been left at the entrance). Al could sleep with eyes open, which freaked me out until I realized he learned how to do that because Charlie would have gotten him if had slept with eyes shut! Much respect old-timer! Hope you're still kicking it!
He’d be lucky if the enemy doesn’t see his flashlight first.
freal, this is plain out suicide
Tunnel rats would almost never turn on their flashlights for this exact reason.
@David Erickson Really? Using your flashlight would basically gave away your position and let the enemy be alert of your presence. If you're lucky, they might not notice. But high chances are, they will and you'll most likely die before you had a chance to even see and shoot them.
@David Erickson actually no. VC doesn’t really needed to use flashlight much since their eyesight is more accommodated to the dark than the US soldier due to being in the tunnel for a long time.
If you live in a dark place for a long time, you’ll be able to get used to seeing in the dark.
There’s a reason why strange thing happen in VC forest at night. Why do you think no one has ever found a VC in the dark forest at night?
Also, back then, VC tends to rely on candle or oil lamp more than flashlight since they don’t have the luxury of battery much. Electricity isn’t exactly a thing for VC back then.
@David Erickson wait a sec, even with that logic I still think David would know more noting he was in the tunnels like what? Well taken David but you are 100% more knowledgeable if you were actually in there. Thank you for your service if you were really there aswell, I know I wouldn't have been able to do it. Im too much of a coward to be able to handle myself. I guess that's my generation though, again thank you so much for putting yourself on the line for us. Whether it was worth it or not your bravery and sacrifice was for us and you deserve all the respect you earned over there. Thank you again
Going into one of those tunnels would be my worst nightmare. The people who went down there are on a different level from me. Nothing but admiration for how they put fear to one side and did their job !
Freal!💯Praise and love to those who fight for us, U.S. army✊🏻!!!
@@jpeg.600x2 you were the bad guys , you killed innocent rice farmer and still lose
Tbh the soldiers and civilians who lived down there were also on another level
@@REMxRAW they are the OG
God bless you Terry Lowe and Merry Christmas!
These tunnels are now an attraction to the public. I had the pleasure of visiting them and it was an impressive wonder of engineering.
Ummmm These 'Jumping jacks' Are better known As 'bouncing Bettys' to us Gamers
Which game? I heard that from a game but I forgot which one.
Entity Gamer Call of Duty Black Ops
Bouncing Betty is the nickname from allied forces but the Australian and New Zealand nicknamed them Jumping Jack. They have a few other nicknames but S-mine is the official name that is usually being referred to.
When?
When I hear a click and there’s a delay for 0.5 sec I’m praying that I can probe quick enough
My great grandfather was a tunnel rat. I'll never forget some of the stories he told me.
Do tell
Sad
Tell us!
Tell us bro.
He is a tunnel rat and that’s remarkable but Vietnam’s tunnels are much more remarkable
The story of tunnel rats have always been the most interesting and are of just a few that make me uneasy feeling just hearing them
when you sneeze and the pile of grass says bless you
The fact that the fatality rate was 33 doesn’t count the losing your limbs rate.
exactly. I have so much respect for these Viet Congs. They sure possessed some alpha male energy to fight the mightiest power on earth called USA.
My dad’s cousin was a tunnel rat. My dad said before he went to Vietnam he was the life of the party all the time. Funny guy who just always made the party better. When he came back, my dad said his cousin only came around the bars a few times and wouldn’t talk much. He ended up taking his own life a few months after he returned.
We got to make a movie outta this .
I know a fellow that was a Tunnel Rat in Nam. He was Infantry when he got there.
Upon arrival they took a look at this guy that was 5ft 1in tall, weight of maybe 120lbs soaking wet and "asked" him to volunteer as a Tunnel Rat.
He said that it was not something he was interested in doing.
They agreed that he didn't "have" to.
They then assured him that the whole time he was In-Country they were going to assign him to far more dangerous and worse jobs.
He considered his options and "volunteered".
He was great at what he did and served two enlistments over there.
He survived it all.
I am so proud to say I know this man.
Willie, if you ever read this I just want you to know how well-respected you are!!.
I have told him in that in person a few times but he always down plays it as if it wasn't a big deal.
7:28 as soon as I heard bowman I immediately thought of black ops 1
Me too, Black ops was fairly realistic
He could have been the inspiration for the character.
"The numbers Mason, what do they mean"
@@chrishess5526 indeed
@Kam W you’re very welcome
My poppy was an Aussie tunnel rat. He’s still shaken obviously but if we ask, he’ll talk about the job briefly - no specifics. We rarely ask. He was a royal engineer, and when he came home, he became an instructor at Pakapunyal while he and my gran, mum and her sisters lived on base. Even though I despise war and the reasonings people give for fighting, I’m so incredibly proud of him for doing what he thought was right and coming out alive and even mostly (physically) okay.
Respect+
I don't call my grandfather poppy.... But I do call my father poppy
I would be really curious to hear your puppy's opinion on this video
What poppy means?
@@supremeleader5516 My mother’s father sorry
Now THATS what I call the power of Nature!
Congratulations to Vietnamese people who pulled this genius way out It's literary
Awesomene
I should be surprised that the first Tunnel Rats were Australians but judging from their badass history I'm just impressed
Yeah go Aussie’s!
Edit: Ps I’m Australian so yeah
@@stallitite9157 hello from Ireland
@@stallitite9157 same i'm aussie
Like losing to emus
@@stallitite9157 are you an aboriginal? If not you’re not really Australian
I just remember "Victor Charlie" campaign in Call of Duty : Black Ops where Mason and Swift infiltrated a rat tunnel.
7:29 BOWMAN!
Reznov
Ha reznov sneak down there
back when treyarch was original.
That looks like an absolutely terrifying thing to do! I can't see myself ever doing it
Had a friend's brother was a tunnel rat. He was never the same afterwards. RIP Doug W. And all his Brothers.
*Demn, this new "Home alone" movie seems brutal*
im pretty sure its the new "Saw" movie
XD
Or new war called tunnel wars 1
I love this comment so much
Yea lol
Thanks for making this. My grandpa on my mother's side was a tunnel rat in the vietnam war. I still have his army issue knife, the only thing I have left of him.
im sorry for your loss
rest in peace your grandfather. thanks for his service.
Rip sorry for ur loss
My condolences, but mad respect for him. He isnt dead, hes a martyr.
This is so entertaining for some reason
My uncle was a tunnel rat for over 2 years, the man has some amazingly scary stories.
They were always looking for this guy named Charlie.
his first name was Victor, right?
@Joseph Stalin it's a joke
@Joseph Stalin it's from Forreat Gump, he was a tunnel rat in the movie, but it didnt show much
You mean you?
My Great Uncle was one of the 12 men that came back to tell the stories of being a tunnel rat. Captain Grant F. Cleverly,
respect my man, respect
Respect to him 💪🏼🇺🇸
Did he really ‘volunteered’?
He got out because he was clever?
My great grandad got captured in Japan in WW2, he got really bad PTSD and never talked about it cause of how bad they tortured him, I can imagine that’s how Vietnam POWs were treated
Dudes, whenever I’m busy doing my homework, I always listen to this and still don’t what I learned from my classes.
Our history teacher said that she would invite Vietnam veterans to talk to our class. I live in a small community so the there aren't that many to come to our class. One of the ones she invited but never came back, because the students were disrespectful was a tunnel rat. Sounds like it was so bad he broke down and refused to talk about his experience. That is what peaked my interest in this video. I was shocked to hear that not many made it back.
everyone is talking about "how hard becoming a tunnel rat volunteer".
but nobody talking about how hard digging, living, and moving as vietnamese soldier
Because it's a American channel.
They won, so their efforts were for not.
@@Ihatethewaythatyou debatable
Tunnel rat volunteers knowledge abt tunnel and that of diggers is the different.
+1 respect
When i was in year 5 we went camping and the camp was like an army camp, you had crawl through mud and go into small spaces. One of the things me and my friends did was the tunnel rats and the place was filled dirt, it smelled terrible, super uncomfortable and it was very narrow disgusting tunnels, but that was probably baby steps for those soldiers.
it's true that a lot of Americans go back to Vietnam. Most of them are old people and come with their families. When they set foot in the place where they fought, they immediately wanted to go to the airport and demanded to leave right away in tears. because they can't get over that past memory. There are many bonding programs between Vietnam and the US and I feel touched by that
“Have you ever seen a Vietnamese giant centipede?” Why yes, yes I have his name is Raad and he’s my pet. Not as bad as you think just don’t let one chomp down on you, it’s not pleasant!
cute
hells nooooo
Ey Sheiky baby!
@@AmAxel35 intelligent wrestling fan !
I watched this with my grandfather
He said "Well I'm glad I went to Panama so I didn't have to do that."
If he didn’t go to Panama maybe you won't be even here writing this comment
As in the Panama Invasion?
@@blakemoreno776 yeah, I think. all he says is how lucky he got not going Vietnam, considering he went in during 69'.
@@RatChad 😳
This was an amazing incredibly dangerous job done by men who we will never know, who deaths were horrible and gruesome
sidebar: i love these animations. I could watch all day
I was in vietnam in the U.S. marines as a tunnel rat. We all got nicknames mine was the grim reaper. I was a teenager and had to grow up fast.
As scary as the tunnels must’ve been you gotta hand it to those Vietnamese for being able to survive in the jungle like that.
When I was about 8 or 9, the much older neighbor kids had dug a deep, "U" shaped tunnel & dared me to crawl all the way through it. I remember crawling in & at the midway point, there was a huge root blocking the way, otherwise I would have made it through. That was many years ago & now all I can do is think about how lucky I am that it didn't cave in on me, thanks to God!!
It gave me chills thinking about if you got caved in a position unable to move or scream when nobody can hear you…
Bit of an odd neighbour
if it fell down i would be so angry as the neighbor because that must’ve taken a while to dig 😡😠😡😠😡😠😡😡😠😡😠😠😡😠😡😡😠😡😡😠😠😡😠😠😡😡😠😤😤😡😡😠😤😡😤😠😤😠😤😡😤😠😤😡
Mine was when my father Pushed me tru a cave then got stuck for 5 days there no food But theres water at the Cave so thats my water source Then after that rescue had come.
@@armiehuelva9081 thats cap
This is good info/history worst nightmare than entering Amazon..never heard of it before
My Grandfather was a Tunnel Rat, this honestly explains a lot of how my father talked about his childhood and how he would experience his father's episodes. He's gotten better now
Total bs. Lol
Which part? Explain?
I’m not claustrophobic but even just the animation of those tunnels made my man parts tingle like I was looking off the side of a 10,000 foot drop.
I’d rather be jobless and be homeless than be a tunnel rat
Meh, Not that hard tnh
@@evrenf2116 lol troll
@@evrenf2116 so why on you yt and not at war?
@@MyZenaGaming im retried, the viet kong had nothing on me
@@evrenf2116 lol hope you not lying if not nice and what was the reason they went to war in the first place?
Very brave men, those tunnel rats👍👍👍🏅🏅🏅
I met a few veterans from Vietnam, but nobody from Australia! Thank you Australia! You guys are nearly insane as US.
Australians have crawled through the same blood and guts alongside Americans for over a hundred years, who do you think taught you guys how to fight in the trenches in ww1 and fight the Japanese in ww2
Moral of the story: Dont mess with the Vietnamese. They aint playin around
😂😂 well dame
To bad for you I’m Vietnamese
Nah they just had home field advantage
@thomas brunn how does being a vietnamese correlate to a virus?
@@peterjr6954 no