Posted: 6/14/2013 3:06:41 PM EDT
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Was doing some research on tunnels and found this...Very interesting how they used tunnels and pits. Still used in wars today.
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2012/07/underground-tunnels-of-cu-chi-vietnam.html |
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There's a book "The tunnels of Cu-Chi" that's been out for many years. One of the most telling/chilling books from the Vietnam Nam era. Worth a look for sure. Some nasty shit went down in those tunnels. Like what? Torture/Rape/Cave-ins? They don't really look all the structurally sound. Pretty impressive that a little tunnel rat could do that with a folding shovel... -Emt1581 |
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There's a book "The tunnels of Cu-Chi" that's been out for many years. One of the most telling/chilling books from the Vietnam Nam era. Worth a look for sure. Some nasty shit went down in those tunnels. If that's the same book I read it was pretty good read. Not what I would want in my AO. |
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There's a book "The tunnels of Cu-Chi" that's been out for many years. One of the most telling/chilling books from the Vietnam Nam era. Worth a look for sure. Some nasty shit went down in those tunnels. Like what? Torture/Rape/Cave-ins? They don't really look all the structurally sound. Pretty impressive that a little tunnel rat could do that with a folding shovel... -Emt1581 They were built over decades, since WW2 at least. They didn't just dig them "with folding shovels" during our war there. |
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There's a book "The tunnels of Cu-Chi" that's been out for many years. One of the most telling/chilling books from the Vietnam Nam era. Worth a look for sure. Some nasty shit went down in those tunnels. Like what? Torture/Rape/Cave-ins? They don't really look all the structurally sound. Pretty impressive that a little tunnel rat could do that with a folding shovel... -Emt1581 Umm, combat in pitch black with booby traps, poison snakes and centipedes, clausterphobia, close combat by suprise with pistol, knife, hand to hand. Fear of being captured underground. The tunnels could be damaged by explosives but were generally pretty sound. IIRC one way they thought to deal with a tunnel infested area was to get our troops out of the AO and bomb the crap out the area with B52's with big bombs. I am a short guy, they likely would have pushed me toward the tunnel but I doubt I would have volunteered for that shit. 
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I remember in machine gunnery school digging pits and the training Sgt. left us alone for too long. We had our own small tunnel complex and 4 mg pits with ammo bearers' positions as support. Sgt. Osteen was a pretty smart Sgt., he commended us on our extra work on improving our positions and pointed out the danger of collapse without reinforcement and told us to fill them in before someone got killed. 
While digging we found several caches of 7.62 linked ammo that some other unit(s) didn't want to shoot/turn in. Things were a bit different way back then. No supply guy would touch turn ammo, you had the mad minute before you left the range. If you didn't I would imagine you'd be told to take that shit to the dumpster.  I know lots of brass went in the dumpsters then.
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They don't really look all the structurally sound. Pretty impressive that a little tunnel rat could do that with a folding shovel... -Emt1581 From what I recall reading, the earth there is somehow of a type that is favorable to tunnel construction Dirt isn't all the same that's for sure. The crap near why I grew up was highly erodible with too much water, very similar to the muddy cakey shit that they have in Agincourt France that confounded the heavily armored French troops when they got their asses kicked by the lightly armored English infantry. |