The two men cautiously climbed down the stairs, guns drawn, when they came upon another tarp.Ĭautiously, the Rats moved the tarp with their pistols and fixed their flashlights on 10 or so Vietnamese people, dressed as VC, but with blank faces looking into space, bodies rocking back and forth, eyes a solid color. The stairs were odd, and definitely not built by the VC. The only thing they found was a tarp, but when they moved the tarp, it revealed a set of stone stairs, moving deeper underground.
When they finally arrived in the main room, they were astonished that no booby traps were set and an oil lamp was still lit. This Tunnel Rat was crawling into the deepest tunnel he'd ever been in, along with his partner. It was one of the war's most dangerous jobs, crawling around in the dark, avoiding booby traps and trying to kill before they killed you. For the uninitiated, Army Tunnel Rats were troops who would crawl into NVA and Viet Cong tunnels to eradicate the troops that hid there below the surface.
On Reddit, a terminally-ill Vietnam veteran recounted a story of his time in Vietnam that he was going to take to his grave but opted to put it on r/nosleep instead.
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