Lee do your research and understand that the US military started this high death rate war, this war helped a lot of the corporate weapons and arms manufacturers, Monsanto was just one of the 6-8 huge chemical company's that were going flat knacker involved in manufacturing the Agent Orange herbicide, then that they refused to extend the reduction of its human toxicity because this would require an extra day or so before it was then ready for transport to Vietnam. This comment is only a minor fraction of the corporate manufacturers that were reliant on the American war machine to provide profits to those manufacturers back in those days of 45-50 odd years ago. I spent my time there for just a half a term of service during the winding down stage back in 1971. At that point in time the Australian troops had began their government ordered complete withdrawal of all Australian military personnel. That's why my term was reduced.
Agent Orange was a bad thing. in 1966 I came into contact with it on foilage. Today I'm treated at the VA Hospital for AGENT ORANGE, it attacked my Heart and Lungs. I don't look at how much time do I have left, I just pray for all troops and let them know that Jesus Christ is always there for me.. Have a wonderful day. Glad your still here, I can say, (WELCOME HOME)
While this was a horrific war and I have mad respect for Vietnam Vets, most were drafted, as in forced into this...which is super fucked up..and ironic for a country that's against communism. When I joined in 2006 it was voluntary, and like most..just turned 18. There is no shortage in volunteers, after 9/11 there was a huge influx of people signing up.
I knew a tunnel rat He told me that he went down a tunnel that had branches. As he was carefully crawling down one that was pitch dark he heard a noise so he turned and fired. It was a mother and baby. He killed them both and said he was sad and never forgot it!. It greatly bothered him 50 years later!
Joined up in '92. Favourite of training was History Classes, where a Paper Mache map was centre in the lecture theatre, the WW2 and Vietnam diggers would tell their story of their battles. Talk to a vet' whilst you still can. Listen to their stories and pass them on to the next generation. Respect.
I had a sergeant on the P.D. who climbed through the tunnels in Vietnam. The stories are unbelievable. He was the sole survivor of a battle and ran two days to get back to base camp.
Your sargeants story is really touching. I just watched the movie 1968 Tunnel RATS about what it was like for the soldiers in the tunnels during the Vietnam war. Although just a movie it had me on the edge of my seat and it gives you an idea of the horror these soldiers had to endure.
The Tunnels RATS are without any doubt the most brave soldiers I have ever seen. It was the more dangerous job, never forget than Charly was waiting for them generally.
@TheOneFromFuture can you explain how allied soldiers were affiliated with the German National Socialist(aka Nazi) party? With the political horseshoe principal communists actually have more in common with fascist groups such as the Nazis then moderates such as the socialists in western europe or the conservatives in Anzac countries and the US
My high school friend was a marine tunnel rat. After being shot several times and blown up a couple of times, he survived. He got out and started drinking to the point of destroying his liver. He died 2 years ago, liver failure.
I'm sorry about your friend. I just watched the movie 1968 Tunnel RATS about what it was like for the soldiers in the tunnels during the Vietnam war. Although just a movie it had me on the edge of my seat and it gives you an idea of the horror these soldiers had to endure similar to what you brought out.
I am so sorry to hear this😢It was a horrific war.I feel sad that he turned to alcoholism to cope with his experiences😢My dad served in Vietnam and he hasn't spoken about it to this day😢
Any war is terrible and I wish this one had not happened. So much blood and tear on both sides. Pray for the soldiers who fought and lost their life in this nonsense war. Peace
Population control at it finest or worst, however, you want to look at it... Not from just one country but from all... How many wealthy kids go to war??? Not many from any country... Have a great day...
Ghost1912, yes many did volunteer, but I think it is fair to say that there was more opposition to this war than any other war in American history. I had relatives who went while I protested the war!
I'm vietnamese , this one is only on the video. At the real war the american solder was not easy to do like this. The tunel is not only one gate you can see Cu Chi Tunnel for further more. Now we are living in speace vietnam vs us is friend so look in the future
My great uncle was a tunnel rat he did 2 tours in Nam (101st airborne) my mom said when he came back he never talked about what he saw, but just said he cleared tunnels and was in combat. Never spoke anything more about it even till this day
My uncle was also a tunnel rat,beauty of being the smallest guy in the platoon. This was absolutely the worst war we ever had or shouldn't of even been in.
Growing up our neighbor was a Vietnam veteran and prisoner war. This was a man who never advertised his veteran bona fides; no hats, bumper stickers, or license plates. I was fascinated. Being young and naive, I once asked him about it but he wouldn’t say much, hardly anything. I couldn’t draw anything out him.
My grandfather was a tunnel rat, im 35 years old, and still to this day he will not set down and too much about his experience. So growning up i had no idea the horrors he went through.
Those American soldiers were pure victims of Racist American leadership. There is no Glory, No Chivalry , No Morals , No ethics, No Patriotism in American War in Vietnam. There is nothing great to gloat about Vietnam war. Every Asian peace loving nation should have capacity deter a war effectively by arming themselves with nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles especially to prevent modern-day Christian imperialistic Crusades in Asia. Western nations name their religious crusades( occupation of foreign lands) as war to establish democracy. Anyways they themselves have no democracy.
A Vet who was in our Dept talked about tunnels and they sure were not like the stage prop shown. Muddy, damp, jet black, roots, covered holes with bamboo spikes,tripwires,snakes,spiders, bodies, you name it. Eventually they said screw this and would toss in nades, flood them out. Pump in gas or napalm.
just watched the movie 1968 Tunnel RATS about what it was like for the soldiers in the tunnels during the Vietnam war. Although just a movie it had me on the edge of my seat and it gives you an idea of the horror these soldiers had to endure similar to what you brought out.
I have nothing but respect and admiration to any one serving in any branch of our military, but Viet Nam Vets had the toughest job in the field and at home there was zero moral support. God bless you all and THANK YOU FOR YOUR SACRIFICE!🖖
Thank you for killing women and innocent children....USA is the most shameless country who killed billions on earth for hegemony...Vietnam and afghans made them bite dust
My good friend and fellow actor Ronnie Giles ( RIP) was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. You wouldn’t have known it because he was a nice guy and unassuming. He wouldn’t talk about his experiences. But I knew he was the real deal. Ronnie , we miss you.
My English teacher in high school was in the Vietnam war a really small guy like 5’2 - 5’3. He told us he was the person who went and cleared these tunnels because some were so small an average guy couldn’t fit in them. 80% of the time he talks with his eyes closed because of some of the stuff he saw.
@@Chinhnguyen0497 says the one who’s people k*lled each other with IMPUNITY. That’s Vietnam is in the poor state it is today, because YALL adopted socialism/communism. That’s what y’all deserve.
A good buddy of mine was a tunnel rat. He was in the combat engineers. The unit slips my mind right now. Small in stature which was usually the case. Mark had seven kills in the tunnels, most with a knife. He brought back some issues with him. He was a Senior Quality inspector where we worked. He had a bench in a room toward the back of the factory. You always had to announce you were coming in. You didn't want to sneak up on Mark. He was union president and one year during negotiations he was carrying a 1911. If only management knew............Mark was wired.
@TheOneFromFuture who said it was woman and children you ass? My Father went into those tunnels as well and was never the same again ! May you never have to do the job theses men did bravely!
They had plenty of practice...have been fighting for hundreds of years. An American veteran went back to Vietnam, and was able to talk to General Giap.... asked him about the war. General Giap asked " Which one. We have had 5 wars since the Americans left ".
Tunnel Rats had some if the highest rates of severe Agent Orange poisoning due to them crawling around in the tunnels with defoliated dirt. They were exposed to it more than the average soldier.
@@claireh.7605 và hiện nay các công ty Mỹ và chính quyền Mỹ không công nhận đó là chất độc . Những người Việt Nam bị chất độc màu da cam tàn phá đến tất cả thế hệ con cháu của họ sau này nhưng họ không nhận được sự công bằng
@@claireh.7605Wow you think the soldier sprayed the agent orange? Look into monsanto dimwit..It was not a low level soldier choosing to spray the stuff. btw most soldiers were drafted. People with no idea should keep their comments to themselves
2 years ago we lost former Marine Vietnam Vet and tunnel rat Correctional Officer Galen Richardson (Rich) He taught me more than how to be a C/O. Rest in peace sheep dog, we'll be along soon.
We don't have modern weapons, we don't have the # 1 army in the world. But we have the Vietnamese heart and our aspiration for peace, that has helped us win against the invaders.
I think America just wanted to make an example out of any country that may decide to go communist. Even though Vietnam fell to it, it didn’t spread. Probably out of fear of America
(1,12) I have never seen a soldier doing that, kneeling and putting his head under the bridge like that, except if he wanted to kiss on the mouth those delicious green bamboo vipers.
Wow. These "men" appear to be 16 year olds. My 16 year old son is still afraid of lightening and a bee sting would "kill" him. Much respect to all that have served or ever will.
my Uncle who was rlly more like my grandfather was a tunnle rat, when the boy scouts wouldn't let me join cause I'm in a wheelchair he taught me 10,000x more about survival, taught me to shoot, taught me edible plants & meds, how to deal with dangerous situations, handle intense stress, How to make improvised weapons and Traps, how to be stealthy and detect stealth, and tons more of uneeded useless skills unless we go into Civil War or Mass chaos. He taught me to be above all else to be an honorable man. and that's a lot more than i would have learned through the Fucking Boy scout diddlers. Sorry for my bad typing my fingers are broke so its hard to type...
You're wrong,my dad was a scoutmaster and he went over and above to bring a fellow scouts handicapped brother in our troop, the entire troop was taught about respect and acceptance, he was involved in all troop activities,you found the exception not a rule, scouting is a great character building organization, from scout training I've saved lives, not bragging, and saved my own life, God bless all who SERVED in Vietnam, my brother Dennis was KIA in Vietnam 4-30-69,delta co, Big Red One, RIP big brother
@@michaelstratton6701 that's great to hear, maybe its diff nowadays but back in the 90's I wasnt allowed in due to my physical disability, which is brittle bone disease I break my legs fingers ect. easy I can walk short distances when my legs not broke but cant walk to far because I've broken and had surgeries on my spine multiple times.
Some Of The Recruits Didn't Get Enough Training Before They Went Over There. They Were Kids, They Needed Way More Training, But There Wasn't Enough Time. Soldiers Were Dying In High Numbers Every Month & They Just Kept Sending More Barely Trained Recruits. Also, The Guys Had Alot On Their Minds. Everybody Slips Up, Fortunately He Didn't Shoot Himself
I did recon in the army, an infantry recon platoon. You have to be a little crazy to volunteer for this kind of work. But this shit is next level crazy. No way in hell i'm gonna crawl into a tunnel system, maybe multi level with booby traps and nasty shit. The disadvantage you have against an enemy who knows the tunnel system is way too big. So deep respect for the guys who did this. And they did it to save the lives of their friends and absolutely payed the price for it. One way or the other. ❤
I met a tunnel rat a couple of years ago. He was an alcoholic and he really didn't want to talk about his experience over there. The only thing he did tell me, though, was that he would only come out for food and ammo, and he saw the VC women and children as "sticks". He would just kill them with no remorse. But, that's what he was trained to do. It made me so sad that he had to go through that hell and he was still going through it. 😔
Been there, done that, 1st Inf Div, 2nd Battalion/28th Inf, A Company, Lai Khe, 3/9/66 to 3/9/67. I always entered a tunnel with 3 things, , a 45, a flashlight and a prayer.
It’s interesting that there were less then 800 American tunnel rats in Vietnam. However when ever they are mentioned everyone seems to be related to one.
During cedar falls, masher , and fighting along the parts beak, there was no time to do this much checking for traps or mines when engaging an enemy tunnel system when first discovered
This statistic amazed me. If true. There were 700 tunnel rats in Vietnam. 200 were injured and 36 died. I expected the number killed would have been a lot higher since the expected life span of a tunnel rat once entering a tunnel was 3 seconds. I bet the debrief was extensive after every death. 36 ways to improve as a tunnel rat. It's always been true, no heros come home. They all die.
Idk, seems conflicting; “It was a different world and people didn't understand what we did,” he mused, adding that early tunnel rats had little training and had a 3% survival rate.”
Ive been painting airplanes for the goverment for 20 years. I worked with a Tunnel Rat most of my career. The dude was completely Nuts. Heart big as TX. But you didnt want to piss him off.
@@KarmaFB Dangee fever was rampant in the platoons.. my wife even caught it when we were last there... she nearly died, by the grace of the gods we sought medical attention and drove over half an hour by ambulance to the center of tropical diseases. My wife's Viet, Mosquito's don't discriminate.
A good family friend of mine as well as my home electrician growing up was a tunnel rat. We used to call him spider man when I was young and I never thought anything of it other than that he was some sort of super hero who would come save the day in the event our house lost power or we needed work done. Little did I know that spider man was another nickname given to those who cleared out tunnels in Vietnam. My dad knew this man for decades and never once did he tell a single word about what he experienced.
đây là mô hình cho lính mỹ thực hành đối phó với những người giải phóng.. thực tế cho thấy đối đầu với những người giải phóng dân tộc không phải là 1 cuộc dạo chơi
I know war as hell, no matter what side you’re on, but I really can’t imagine crawling into a dark tunnel complex that I’m unfamiliar with, and only with a knife, pistol on flashlight, knowing the enemy could be anywhere. What badasses man. Afraid but doing it anyway 🇺🇸 🇹🇼
Most of the guys who were "Tunnel Rats" came back with some major baggage. I worked with a guy who was a "Combat Engineer" and was a "Tunnel Rat" the last 3-4 months of his tour. He is a little paranoid and always on the look for danger.....
The weight of a bayonet is MUCH less likely to set off a pressure plate. They're not jamming the knife in there, they're feeling for holes or for metal instead of dirt. Most mines need more than a fat rat running across them to go off.
You clearly don't know anythink about the subject,no it wouldn't set them off it takes more than that to set off a mine and he is also poking around to see if there is a punji stick trap which was a thing the vietcong did everywhere
That is how you are trained to do it. Have you ever had to clear a field or tunnel? I doubt it. Your kind would have went to Canada to avoid the draft.
😂😂😂 nhìn các kỹ năng của các bạn thật hài hước . Thực tế thì người Việt Nam rất thông minh khi thiết kế các đường hầm . Nó là cả 1 hệ thống với rất nhiều lối vào bí mật . Mỗi lối vào có rất nhiều cửa có thể đóng kín để cho dù có bị thuốc nổ hoặc bơm nước , bơm thuốc độc thì họ sẽ chặn đoạn đó . Các khu vực khác của đường hầm không bao giờ bị ảnh hưởng , với những cách phá huỷ đơn giản như vậy , các bạn chỉ làm hư hại được 1 phần rất nhỏ không đáng kể , 1 hệ thống đường hầm có thể dài tới 200 km bao gồm rất nhiều công trình , nhà kho , bệnh viện , trường học , nhà trẻ , nhà ở ..... bên dưới độ sâu 20- 50 m dưới lòng đất , đủ chỗ để phục vụ cùng lúc hàng ngàn người dân sinh sống . Phụ nữ , người già và trẻ em sẽ ra khỏi hầm khi không có bom đạn , họ tranh thủ trồng lúa , khoai thu hoạch để nuôi những người lính chiến đấu bảo vệ đường hầm . Thật khó để có thể làm hư hại được chúng với vài ngàn tấn thuốc nổ . Người Việt Nam đã tạo ra 1 kiệt tác , Đó là những công trình ngoài sức tưởng tượng của con người .
He was short so did it part time? Right hahsh what nonsense is this.I'd imagine it'd be easier for smaller guys you pencil pushing bullshit talking soy boy.
Tunnels of cu chi (Tom mangold and John penycate)...Very good book,i think it,s the definitive book..Reading it now. And if you like vietnam storys read Matterhorn by Karl mallantes,you can see him on some of these docu,s. It is fiction but is very much fact,most is based on real events.. The cu chi book has storys from rats and also from viet cong and NVA soldiers
jerry cornelius I'd recommend "a rumor of war" by phil caputo "dispatches" by Michael Herr and "what it feels like to go war" by Karl Marlentes ththeat last one was a really good read
If you get a chance read Matterhorn, I really, really recommend it.Parts of ''what it feels like to go to war'' are in the novel, only called fiction because of name and place changes, plot etc but most was based on real events. 10/10
I would have been a tunnel rat back in the day on account of being vertically challenged. My old barber was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. He had great stories.
Better read books!!!!!, but oh yes the shit of country usa:ss Only have war books only you can is war fucking sionist owned blood on your hands people the world hate you and you People soon is usa and jews fall:D viva la russia kina india colombia Argentina north korea
My father in law Larry Carlisle was a Sgt with the 82nd and 101st and a tunnel rat he fell thru the ground right into a N Viet underground hospital you can imagine what happened next
A friend of ours did 2 tours .He seen friends get killed. When he came home he was getting flashbacks. He could not be around people. He is now in US . He is at a home with other men like him. It really pissed me off when all these men got home they called them baby killers. Some people forget it was the government that drafted them. So blame your government for it
when i got back from nam my dad called me a hero and most everybody else called me a criminal .so just to feel normal i went back for two more tours but the funny thing was that i was already normal and just did not know it.i still have nightmares even after 53 years,
My dad was 95 and still had nightmares about ww2. He said he didn't have them all the time but when he did, he was there. He said every night when he went to bed, he was afraid he would have more nightmares about the war. You never forget.
Of course u are his son so he called u hero. But i believe it not ur fault to fight on that no mean war to america. It’s just the ambitious of ur leader. And other called u criminal because u the one who fight to invaded Vietnam who just won and got out of France colony
In 1981 I was 18 in aust army and we where on a exersize for a week one of my 1st exersizes I been on since joining the battalion(8/9)and in the middle of the night we were wakened up by this god awful screaming and this crashing thru the bush, turned out being our sgt having flash backs to nam, that scared the shit outa me I gotta tell ya😂
i have a friend who served 3 tours in Nam. They said he could not serve 4 tours because he enjoyed it to much. He was also a tunnel rat and loved it. I'm glad he's a friend.
Only in dreams was this process done this way.More then likely they sent one guy in with a .45 and maybe waited to see if he ever came back. Forget about when they're under fire. Those guys had brass balls.
My dad was in the Navy during 'nam, and he told us about tunnel rats...he said "Nobody, and I mean *nobody*, wanted to be the skinniest guy in the platoon..bc guess who just got his hand raised to go suss it out?"
I met a couple of tunnel rats quite a long time ago now but had no idea how technical it was. A very spooky job I always imagined. You go into one of those tunnels and have no idea what awaits you. I do understand how bonded these two guys were. Going through something like that does not compare to what anyone goes through in general life. I don’t like small spaces.
First of all, thanks to the RU-vid purveyor of this old military training film. This training film is laughable next to the reality of the real tunnel war in Vietnam. It is indicative of how poorly the United States understood the nature of the conflict in Southeast Asia...
I recently visited the Cu Chi tunnels. Nothing like those depicted. Small and tight to deter the large Americans, as are the entrances. The malnourished defenders could slip through them more easily. No supports. The composition of the soil was what sustained them. Interesting tour, but you would not want to be down there facing the threat of an enemy.
Buddy’s head coulda got blown slap off is someone might have been sitting in there standing guard. Big balls for the first guy to go into those tunnels.
Great is the people of Vietnam doh they walk through the valley of death they fear no evil with there ak47 and there tunnel they destroyed the evil that invaded their country and brought victory to their country and people Amen
@@arandomtrip8082 with vietnamese nationalism so strong i doubt that. With the amount of war crimes committed over there against vietnamese civilians there would always be more vc and nva. Plus the support from china and the soviet union. But if you have proof of the numbers then ill stand corrected.
