JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — It was one of the most dangerous jobs in Vietnam. A tunnel rat. Sam Nelson, now a 75-year-old Vietnam veteran in Jacksonville, says he didn't even know what a tunnel rat was.

Armed with a three-and-a-half-foot-long bamboo stick with a slit cut on one end, a 14-inch World War II Japanese bayonet, and a silenced .38 Special revolver pistol, Nicholas “Nick” Sanza was deep ...

For 45 years, Army veteran Nick Sanza was unable to speak about his experiences during the Vietnam War, saying his job was too dangerous and the required security clearance needed to be read in was ...

One of the American "Tunnel Rats" in Vietnam, Garza was chosen, because of his slight stature, to venture into the narrow, pitch-black passageways of the tunnels. Garza's unit was stationed near ...

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 ...

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To clear out the dangerous enemy tunnels, brave infantrymen from Australia, New Zealand, South Vietnam and the United States volunteered for this unenviable job. They would gain the nickname ‘tunnel ...

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Tunnel Rats was released in 2008, and is a war film set during the Vietnam War. It follows the story of a squad of young American soldiers, nicknamed “tunnel rats,” who are tasked with clearing out ...

I had the opportunity to visit the Cu Chi Tunnels, which are just outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The tunnel network was started in the late 1940s and used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War.

Nearly a half-century ago, Arnold W. Bergstrom was a bright-eyed 20-year-old working at a concrete products company in Rapid City and enjoying good times. Then in July 1967, the U.S. Army abruptly ...